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Published on 16 Jul 2006 from
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I’m likely to change the location of my blog soon (gotta use the SharePoint 2007 blog functionality!) and if you use the feed burner feed the change over will be seamless for you.
Thanks!
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Published on 16 Jul 2006 from
Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Partner Software Development Kit (SDK) makes available source code and documentation to customize the Commerce Server Business User tools - Catalog Manager, Marketing Manager, and Customer and Orders Manager - for redistribution to your customers (subject to terms of license).
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Published on 16 Jul 2006 from
In May 2005 Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote a blog entry in which he referred (among other things) to the popularity of the NetBeans web site versus Eclipse.org. NetBeans has nearly caught up, he noted, embedding a little chart from Alexa to provie it.
Trouble is, he used a dynamic chart, which now shows Eclipse to be ranked at around the 2,500th most popular site on the Web, versus NetBeans at around 12,000; even worse, the chart appears to show a widening gap:
I've used a bitmap for my pic so even if NetBeans has a dramatic resurgence this blog post will still make sense :-)
Tags:
netbeans
eclipse
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Published on 16 Jul 2006 from
My best friend has been given a fantastic opportunity to appear on Television.
He's not a singer, he's not a dancer (trust me), he's certainly not of any interest for chat shows, he's a gamer.
Dave (Stavros) plays an online game called Eve Online, and he's currently in iceland talking about a tournament which is being played and airs live across the globe and on Icelandic Television.
You can watch sporting Events and you get expert commentry, so why not with a computer game.
I think this is pretty cool and I believe the idea will proliferate to other games.
Well Done Dave - You big geek you. :-)
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Published on 16 Jul 2006 from
After getting increasingly frustrated with a 5-year old operating system (Windows XP) I decided to buy a MacBook. But what's an ASP.Net developer to do when they rely on Visual Studio? Why - run it on a Mac.
I present, Visual Web Developer on a Mac:
Here are the exact steps to do this. First you need the brilliant Parallels Desktop for Mac Virtual Machine with Windows installed. The trick is to use RDP to display only the Visual Web Developer window within the Mac environment using the open source rdesktop and seamlessRDP.
With the developer tools installed from Apple's install CD, I did the following from a terminal:
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@rdesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rdesktop login
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@rdesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rdesktop co -P rdesktop
$ cd rdesktop
$ ./bootstrap
$ sudo -s
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
$ exit
Create a shell script containing:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/rdesktop -A -a 16 -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\
Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\VWDExpress.exe" 192.168.7.195
replacing the IP address above with the IP address of your Windows VM. Name the shell script "seamless".
Make it executable:
$ chmod 755 seamless
On the Windows VM, grab seamlessrdp.zip from http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp and extract into c:\seamlessrdp
Make sure you've opened up the Remote desktop port in the Windows Firewall and allowed users to connect via remote desktop in the System control panel applet.
Log off from Windows. You won't get the single-window experience if you're not logged off. Also, it's a good idea to turn the screen saver off.
Then from the Mac, run:
$ open-x11 seamless
And hey-presto! Visual Web Developer running inside of MacOS!
Props to http://fastfin.net/seamless/ for some of the help with this.
