April 2006 - Posts - Derek Adkins

April 2006 - Posts

MCSD.Net Solution Architectures: Exam Cram 2 : 70-300 with CDROM

I'm not sure if we can advertise here, but anyways.  I'm selling my MCSD book on designing solutions.  If anyone's interested, go here: Bid Or Buy Link

The book is in perfect condition.  Used only once.  Stick out tongue [:P]  And highly recommended as well. It was in my opinion far better than the MS book for the same exam.

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Posted 18 April 2006 11:01 AM by derek | no comments
Icons

Sometimes we <insert "I"> focus too much on functionality rather than look and feel.  With that in mind, I was looking for a really nice icon set to clean up toolbars and button icons etc.

Here's two great resources for icons... and they're priced right:  FREE!

GlyFX  The common toolbar icons are free, and you can purchase other graphics etc.  I like that they include a "hot" and "disabled" state for each icon as well.

FamFamFam   The "silk" icon set is really slick.  And with 1000 icons included, I doubt you'll need one that isn't there already.  While you're here, grab the "flags" set as well.  There's always a use for a country flag at some point or another.

What other nice "free" UI options/icons/graphics do you use?

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Posted 05 April 2006 11:17 AM by derek | no comments
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A peek into the development of titles for the PSP.

A peek into the development of Playstation Portable titles.  Very interesting read.

Interview With A PSP Developer - DougBeck

From Scott Hanselman's blog/.

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Posted 05 April 2006 09:35 AM by derek | 1 comment(s)
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Human Task Switches Considered Harmful

I happen to agree with this.  I have 3 projects on the go at the same time, and I've been told to share time between all 3 projects.  I think I should forward this to my manager(s).

Human Task Switches Considered Harmful from Joel Spolsky

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Posted 04 April 2006 09:28 AM by derek | no comments
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Compiling for 1.1 runtime with VS2005

As some of you might know, I've been trying to write an interface between Newsgator and Community Server 2.0 so that I can post directly from Newsgator in Outlook.

The forum link is here: http://dotnet.org.za/forums/thread/51003.aspx

So, this weekend I'm coding like crazy in Visual Basic Express and suddenly realise that it's not compatible (yet) with the interfaces I want to use. (I might be wrong, and will still try get it to work.)

In any case, I was wondering if it was possible to compile a project targeting 1.1 runtime instead of 2.0 in VS2005, and I came across this link: MSBuild Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005 RC

It's not available currently, but should be posted back up there soon.  I'm sure this will be helpful to anyone who is using VS2005, and might want to compile something to target the previous versions of .NET.

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Posted 03 April 2006 01:04 PM by derek | 4 comment(s)
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