How Microsoft Blew its Own RIA Invention
Cast your mind back to the year 2000. Microsoft has just announced its .NET Framework, complete with a new language called C# - that was in July, at... more »
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Vista SP2: What’s inside?
Microsoft is continuing to broaden the pool of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) testers beyond the fairly small, select group who’ve been working... more »
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How I've put my wife into SVN
SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to... more »
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XBug - The Javascript Debugger
XBug currently runs on the Windows XP/Vista platform. But, it can also be used to debug webpages on Windows or Linux servers. Select your web page,... more »
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The problem with SVN
"The Obsolete/Broken Dependency" and "The Conflict" are 2 possible scenarios when working with Source-Control.
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Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy is book that presents a series of proven practices that help making companies so successful that their competitors become... more »
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Making of… a Graphical Editor
This is a video presenting the concept and making of a graphical editor... hilarious! :)
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Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Space
This post is about disk space and the disk space “consumed” by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of thing where everyone wants to use less, but the... more »
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Run Java application as Windows Services
Sometimes you need to execute a java program as the machine starts wihout the needeng to log-in. To achieve that you need to make a Windows... more »
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jQuery and HTAs
The reason using jQuery in HTAs is so interesting to me is that one of the main constraints of using JavaScript in web pages (that being the amount of... more »
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SVN-Monitor – Better, Faster, Stronger
A new improved version has been released! SVN-Monitor is a 100% free front-end to TortoiseSVN. It sits on the system-tray and helps monitoring and... more »
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Windows Azure Distilled - A programmer's view
A developer centric overview of the core Azure Cloud Computing Platform from Microsoft.
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How to get and format date in a bat file
Sooner or later everyone needs to mess up with batch file Voodoo for some reason
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Windows 7 may be less than a year away
A lot of the press has focused on Windows 7, and that's understandable since Windows is what many of us stare all day. I've been running Windows 7... more »
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DSkinLite - free gui library
DSkinLite is a powerful gui library to help you develop the user interface program. And we use dskinlite in our current project, so we will optimize... more »
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Programming for Windows 7
Well, Windows 7 is going to be released by the end of next year. This is great news, because it seemed, that Microsoft finally understand how to get... more »
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WUBI - A wonderful little gem that helps windows users to try ubuntu
Traditionally, windows users (including myself) are afraid of installing linux in their machine because of a fear that if something goes wrong, linux... more »
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A move towards UI consistency in Windows 7
Once a subject of heated discussions, the native vs. cross-platform skinning has not been mentioned for quite some time in Swing blogosphere. While... more »
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ComfyJ 2.5
ComfyJ is a Java-COM bridge enabling bidirectional communication between the Java platform and COM technologies.
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Using Active Directory to authenticate users to your ASP.NET Web Site.
ASP.NET membership provides the ability to authenticate users to your web application using forms based authentication against a database of users or... more »
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JDK1.6u10: easy workaround for the severe performance regression of XOR drawing
As you may know, the recent update of Sun’s JDK (1.6.0 update 10) is, by far, much more than the usual bunch of bug fixes. Atypically, it also... more »
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I am worried!
Embarcardero/CodeGear have decided to drop Delphi.Net and thus VCL.Net. This is my thoughts about what effects that have on Delphi and the community.
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A First Look at Windows 7
Get an idea of the features and enhancements built into Windows 7 straight from the CTP released to attendees of the Professional Developer Conference... more »
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UI Design and Microsoft Windows
Four days ago, Microsoft unveiled the pre-beta of Windows 7 at PDC and offered up quite a few user interface changes meant to streamline the aging... more »
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Windows 7: The 'Dog Food' Tastes Bad
Not wanting to rag on something publicly that I hadn't experienced intimately myself, I decided to take the plunge (called "eating your own dog food"... more »
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