Americal Gangster is an excellent film. My feelings about it are shared by the first imdb commenter, "I can hardly believe that this amazing package of a story was delivered by Ridley Scott". Highly recommended...
Yesterday, Microsoft confirmed they would be lifting the licensing by physical server restriction that made using features such as VMotion & XenMotion an expensive option if Microsoft software was used. I spoke about in a previous post. The license restriction will be lifted on 41 server products, exactly which ones it isn't yet clear.
Also, the EULA isn't available just yet so the exact T&C aren't known, so lets hope there isn't any nasty caveats that spoil this good news.
The news licensing...
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8/20/2008 8:31 AM
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Mission: strictly recon.
Debrief:
We met up in downtown Minneapolis, where we hung out for a bit and watched the sun go down. As it started to get dark, the three of us piled into one car and headed to the first of two places we wanted to scope out for further exploration.
Location 1: Flour Mill
Status: Closed, Non-operational
Finding suitable roadside parking, we walked over and checked the place out. We walked around for about half an hour, noting some very interesting features but...
Posted By:Chris Williams
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8/20/2008 1:30 AM
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I thought I would post about this because I find myself putting notes about this in comments here and there. One of our team members bought the rabies plush doll from ThinkGeek a little over a month ago. From the site: Most folks never realize how cute microbes can be when expanded 1,000,000 times and then fashioned into cuddly plush. Until now, that is. Keep one on your desktop to remind yourself that there is an "invisible" universe out there filled with very small things that can do incredible...
When trying to install the Adventure Works 2008 sample database on my new SQL Server 2008 instance I very quickly got a message box about the installation failing with an error of 2738. For some reason this sounded familiar and sure enough a quick search turned up this post from Mitch (see: The error code is 2738) where he had the same error (with a different installer). It appears to be the same issue as the same fix worked for me and now I am up and running with the new sample database. Technorati...
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/.NET-3.5-SP1-Runs-Managed-Code In the past, one could not run managed code from network shares due to security reasons. That feature was introduced in .NET from the beginning to prevent security attacks coming from network locations. The feature did not resolve the respective security threats because unmanaged code always was allowed to run in such a circumstance. A pool organized by Brad Adams, Program Manager at Microsoft, shows that many people would...
What do you do?
Many people, particularly men, have their personal identity defined by what they do for a living.
At a recent church picnic, there was the usual small talk, which eventually leads to the question, "What do you do?". And, even though people mean well, they may feel better about you or themselves, or even evaluate you differently, based on your response.
One of the guys was embarassed and avoided the question. Later, he said that he used to have a prominent job with a big office...
So after Chris prodded me and since I’ve been heckling Rob on Twitter, I figured I should finally throw my hat in the ring for this 100 Pushup Challenge that’s become all the rage on Twitter and in the blogosphere. In a nutshell: See how many pushups you can do before you fail. Compare that number with a chart to determine your starting level. Begin doing a 6 week program that aims to get you to 100 pushups within a month and a half. So tonight I hit the gym and tried for my max pushups....
I have been a big fan of Launchy for some time. I find that it helps me be just a tiny bit more productive each day. It at least let's me not have to search through my start menu for the program I want to launch. However, today I found a new alternative provide by Microsoft Office Labs. This application has some real potential to replace Launchy on my laptop. I will continue to use and let everyone know what I find out. Check it out here: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/speedlaunch/Pages/default.aspx...
This threw me for a loop today. You can't call a PowerShell function with commas "," or parentheses "()" and have it believe it goes to both parameters. Try running the following and see what your output is on every line call to "foo." function foo([string]$a, [string]$b) { Write-Host "a:", $a, " b:", $b } foo("A", "B") foo "A", "B" foo "A" "B" foo("A", "B") "C" rm function:/foo You may find you get different results than you may...
You may run into this at some point. TFS Team Build may not deploy some assembly file you needed. If you look through the logs, you will see something like this (cleaned up for readability): C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Vbc.exe /noconfig /optionstrict+ /rootnamespace:Company.Project.Console /doc:obj\Release\Company.Project.Console.xml /define:"CONFIG=\"Release\",TRACE=-1,_MyType=\"Console\",PLATFORM=\"AnyCPU\"" /reference:..\libs\Castle\Castle.Core.dll,...
I've posted several new ReSharper tips of the Day to to Fooberry.com. One of the most interesting ones in my opinion is the ability for ReSharper to generate the overriden Equals method. Read more here at Fooberry.com...
Since November 2007, I'm a coach in a .net project. This project is managed using the SCRUM principles. I was largely based in the InfoQ online minibook 'Scrum and XP from the trenches': Prioritized product backlog, sprint planning, sprint backlog, daily scrums, sprint demos and retrospectives at the end of every sprint, ...
This was combined with XP: Pair programming, TDD, incremental design, CI, collective code ownership (well ... almost), ...
This project was a really fun project. Off the top...
I had trouble with someone's Silverlight site... I dropped my buddy Tim Heuer an email and asked him if it was me or what... he said it was me... sigh...
I still disagree, but as this progressed, Tim offered up that there is a problem folks are reporting that I appeared to be on the edge of... so I figured what the heck, let's help!
After an email exchange last night, we realized I needed .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.. oops... so I tried that and it pooted...hmmm
Tim says "Oh if you have VS2008 on there,...
Martin Mihaylov on Resizing the SL Object, Dan Wahlin on the Grid and a Flyout StackPanel, Robby Ingebretsen with a Particle Generator, Mike Snow on Terrain Part 2, Custom Mouse Cursor, and Transparent Draggable dialog, Mike Taulty with MessageBox(), Shawn Wildermuth's Part 2 on Deep Fried Bytes, and Pete Brown on SL vs Flash/Flex.
In addition to the two new postings in this edition, Dan Wahlin has updated his My Latest Silverlight post as well.
From SilverlightCream.com: Tip: Resizing...
I haven't been to a PDC since 1997. The big announcement that year was 'ActiveX'. It was a great event and I have high hopes for this years event as well.
This year the topic seems to be 'cloud computing'. I'm going to enjoy steeping myself into this technology. I just found out that Don Box is now going to be part of the keynote as well. It's sure to be a great time and there'll be more reports here...
Even with the newest releases of StyleCop, FxCop, and Visual Studio 2008, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the suite of technologies and products that make up what should probably be termed “Microsoft Source Analysis”. I know that calling StyleCop that name caused a lot of confusion since it was being compared to the built-in source analysis features of Visual Studio (at least the Team Edition SKUs of Visual Studio). I think the real heart of the problem is that Visual Studio comes...
The August Chicago Architects Group meeting will be held on Thursday the 21st. Carl Franklin of Triton-Tech will be speaking at CDW downtown. For more information and to register please follow the link below. See you there.
http://chicagoarchitectsgroup.eventbrite.com...
After the incredible experience that I’ve had the last two years I will be riding in the 2008 Dam2Dam Bike Tour. In 2006 I was able to meet and ride with Greg LeMond, in 2007 Derek and I completed the 50 mile route on a tandem. This ride is extremely well organized from the check-in process to the ride support, rest stops, sag wagons and post ride BBQ. The experience has been amazing so far and to top it off the Dam2Dam will always be special to me since it is really what got me back into cycling....
"Good morning everybody, you're tuned to Computers 2K8 on sports radio 850 The Buzz" and so began today's show as we do every Sunday morning from 8am - 10am here in Raleigh, NC. You can download the show from the show's website or you can listen do us live as we stream the show across the web. Here a few of the topics discussed on this week's show... Gmail Crash Leaves Google App Admins Nervous The whole "computing in the cloud" idea took a quite a hit this week with the Google Apps outage that...
Interested in learning more about Windows Mobile and Windows CE? You can ask the experts at the monthly chats. Scroll down the list to find the next Windows Mobile and Windows CE focused chats. The Windows Mobile focused dev chat is typically the second Tuesday of the month. The Windows CE focused dev chat is typically the last Tuesday of the month. Thanks to Rob Cameron for the FYI on this. Murray Gordon ISV Architect Evangelist...
Posted By:Murray Gordon
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8/19/2008 11:29 AM
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A friend of mine started a blog called make stuff with your kid
If you have kids and want to get them back into the physical world this blog should provide some interesting activities. Heck, he's talking about making all kinds of stuff and then showing us noobs how to do it as well!
Cool stuff,
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I am bored with WoW. OMFG, how wonderful it is to type that phrase. Let me do it again: I am seriously bored with WoW. I even added another descriptor to indicate the depth to which I am bored. How empowering, how liberating.... I like WoW a lot, but I confess I am tired of it. No, I am not tired of the "Go out and kill me 10 of <insert critter> and return with <insert insipid item>" type quests. I am not tired of the reputation reward approach (although I am a little tired of grinding...
Posted By:Theo Moore
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8/19/2008 10:26 AM
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A while ago I talked about a new tool from Microsoft called StyleCop. Since then, there was a lot of confusion surrounding the tool and it has undergone a lot of changes both internally and externally. Both Jason and Brian do an excellent job explaining the context behind some of the discussions and decisions leading up to these changes, but the biggest one is that the tool has been officially renamed as “StyleCop” to prevent any confusion with the built-in Visual Studio Code Analysis packages....
