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We recently upgraded to using Visual Studio 2008 for compiling our MacroView source code on Windows. Previously we had used Visual Studio 2003 so there was a jump over the 2005 compiler version....
Man I hate OPC. It just feels like software plumbing gone overboard in the COM based architecture it uses. The term “software plumbing” is used to describe software thats forms the basis of software...
Here’s a quick tip that I kicked myself when I eventually figured out – and then felt subsequently quite thick. After installing Fedora Core 7 within a VMWare host on Windows, the screen resolution...
There’s a new MSDN show called Striking Pixels that is a “goofy” look at Microsoft’s designer offerings such as Silverlight. There was one excerpt that just cracked me up. Its shown below....
I was listening to the Javapolis Inside the Agility Cube session and snorted at the following excerpt: I know of a project that went into a kind of death march chaos and all kinds of other things....
We’ve released V1.3.0 of the MacroView Excel Add-in software product just this week. Its a package that we’ve developed for Sentient Computing who are one of our business partners....
We use an in-house framework for building applications and the subject of how we decouple business domain classes from a particular data source recently came up....
I upgraded to a quad-core Q6600 based system with two Raptor 10K rpm drives and 4GB RAM this last week. The problem with being my main Windows development machine is that there so many packages to...
I haven't been able to publish a blog post for a three or so weeks now because of a problem in the Blogger FTP publishing operation....
Okay here's a weird .NET Windows Forms error scenario. One of the applications had a scenario where an ObjectDisposedException was occurring, but for only one of the users....