Thursday, January 28, 2010
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Before you install Microsoft Office 2010 Beta deinstall Office Live Addin 1.4! If you don't do it, you will not be able to deinstall it after you upgrade from Office 2007 to Office 2010 Beta. If you try to deinstall it after upgrading, the deinstall will fail with a message "You can't deinstall Live Addin because you have the wrong Office version." I hope Microsoft comes up with a solution or I have a messy task ahead, worst case a clean Win7 installation.
On January 16, 2010, the ArcSig User group met at Global Response for the local Speaker Ideal competition. Alex Koval won the competition with an excellent presentation making the case for Microsoft Azure, and is now competing in the second round at the South Florida Code Camp on 02/27/2010.
Great Job Alex! It was fun! Thanks to the Shooster family for hosting us and to Jeff for Pizza and soft drinks!
Posted: Rainer Habermann
The February meeting will be on 02/16/2010 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale:
Jeff Barnes, Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District presents:
New Features, Frameworks, and Patterns in Silverlight 4
Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/
Learn more about Jeff and his activities at http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes
Posted: Rainer Habermann
Monday, May 18, 2009
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Some third party add-ons can cause a miserable performance running Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. On my machine the Java Plug-In SSV helper caused a delay of several seconds before a web page was displayed. I disabled the add-on and everything was again speedy and smooth. If you experience a slow performance of IE8 disable one add-on after another to find out which add-on makes your day miserable (in the menubar select: tools-manage add-ons). I wonder if Microsoft can integrate a function checking on add-ons which suck the life out of IE 8 and might cause a bad reputation for this great browser.
Posted: Rainer Habermann
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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Over the last few days I installed Windows 7 RC on 2 of my Laptops and one PC. Microsoft delivered a great OS, everything runs smooth and fast and I did not experience any problems at all. Congratulations to the Microsoft Development Teams! Windows 7 is a "Box Office Hit" and offers a rich experience and fast response to professional and average users. File explorer, start menu and Internet Explorer 8 are incredible and well balanced! I have no doubts that Windows 7 will be fast adopted in business environments and a no brainer for home user.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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Yeah! I won a Community prize for February 2009!
The Notification I received:
Dear Rainer Habermann, You won 5th Prize in the February 2009 Contest. As you may know, a lot of people competed, but only a few won. Nicely done! Please also keep in mind that your prize is not just a stupid, geeky gift, but it's also a symbol to represent your contributions to the development community. When folks ask you how you won, you can tell them that it was by helping out other geeks. Be proud and brag.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
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I am testing Windows 7 Beta since almost 6 weeks now. Granted, I was not a fan of Vista since it was to slow and the file explorer was a mess. Windows 7, still a beta version with debug code, is so refreshing fast, offers a better file handling and the processing times for almost everything are amazing fast. IE8 is doing very well and highly compatible! I am looking so forward to the final version. Great Job Microsoft Teams!
Monday, March 02, 2009
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Rainer Habermann recommends ASP.NET 3.5 written by George Shepherd, Microsoft Press
Friday, February 27, 2009
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The right data structures can shorten development times to a high degree.
I started to prepare a presentation for this topic.