With this post, I’m beginning a new series or category of bog posts that I’m loosely terming “A Better Future.” I’ve been thinking a lot about the grail of infinite power, coupled with the enormous rise in gas prices this week. While I am all in favor of reducing wasteful consumption, increasing efficiency, and generally [...]
Put them on any drive other than C:\ (actually, any drive that you don’t heavily use at the same time) Don Roessler discusses how to reduce the size of your virtual hard disk (.vhd) files, and some other tips. Scott Hanselman talks about disabling unneeded services Consider Virtual Server instead (not for all users) Always [...]
Using just these links as a guide, we quickly (less than a day) put up a data source over https for our customers to download GIS data to Google Earth. KML reference and tutorial – KML is the XML language used to describe features that can be displayed in Google Earth and Google Maps. Sample [...]
When I was 9, I started playing with GW-BASIC by typing in programs found in the old kid’s 3-2-1 Contact magazine. This soon progressed to QBASIC, where I mostly made cool graphics with lines and circles. (click for larger image) QBASIC is not included in Windows anymore, but you can still get it. (click [...]
We might have to make a few exception this year to our decision not to go the theater anymore…hopefully won’t have experiences like the last time… Cloverfield The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Batman: The Dark Knight The Day The Earth Stood Still Get Smart Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Incredible Hulk Indiana [...]
Tracking changes in database tables is an incredibly useful feature–especially for operational data that can change often. Having recently had to implement this feature, I thought I’d share some of the techniques I learned. Sample Database First, let’s conceptualize a very simple database consisting of user information (name, date of birth), and e-mails. A user [...]
You’ve installed Visual Studio 2005 on Vista and dutifully changed it to run as administrator, like you’re supposed to. And then… Problem: Visual Studio 2005 solutions no longer open when you double-click them in Windows Vista. In fact, when you double-click nothing happens. Solution: Change them to open with Visual Studio 2005 directly instead of [...]
Thought I’d try it out. You can follow me at my twitter page and I’ll follow you back. Also trying out putting twitter status on my blog. I’ve been thinking about twitter for a while, but still not sure how I’ll use it.
With the acquisition of a Blackberry I wanted to be able to sync both my work and home Outlook setups to the Blackberry (and to each other). I tried a number of free tools (though they aren’t that easy to find) and quickly concluded I would need a better solution. Enter SyncMyCal. It’s easy, it’s [...]
There are so many postings out there on all sorts of blogs about how not to waste time that I’m not sure I can contribute something very meaningful (certainly not new), but since it’s something I’ve been thinking about, I might as well spill some ideas about it. My first book, C# 4.0 How-To is [...]
