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Michelle owns a company called Eskhaleni Technologies , who are registered Microsoft Partners . Because of this she qualified for a Action Pack Subscription , and we both have been on an extensive drive to sort out all our software licenses. We ordered the subscription at the end of March and it earlier this week. I was suitably impressed with the range of software that the subscription comes with for a meager R 2508.00 per annum license fee. A complete breakdown of the applications and licenses...
I went through my project list this morning and realised how many different projects I am involved in, and more importantly how wide the scope of these projects are. It is very rare for me to not be involved in multi projects at the same time, and this month is no different. Asset Management System (AMS) The AMS system I mentioned before. It is a 3-Tier application which allows companies to use PDT barcode scanners and RF Tags to keep track of all the company assets. The current architecture of this...
Microsoft has released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. A list of the changes are available here Links to the downloads are available here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
One of the features of dasBlog I was very intrigued with was it's ability to use gzip compression to serve pages. After doing a bit of research I realized that IIS by default does not enable compression and the setup is not entirely straight forward. I came across the following brilliant article on how to enable compression on IIS and tested it on two of my servers, an absolutely amazing difference in performance overall. Have a look here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit...
While working with a client recently I noticed he was running some interesting desktop widgets. He pointed me to the Yahoo Widgets website and I've been hooked ever since. There is a few sidebar and widgets systems out there and I am not sure how I missed this particular one, as I have never been a big fun of Yahoo's software, however the Widget Engine is in short quite brilliant. The Yahoo Widget engine has a very small memory footprint, and each widget is highly configurable. All widgets can be...
For a brilliant example of how to use the new WPF available in Vista and Framework 3.0 have a look a UniveRSS . It's a truly 3D RSS reader application and a powerfull example of what Vista offers as far as desktop development is concerned. When I was younger I always wanted to design a truly 3D website, well I can now start at the desktop. More information here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
While browsing the web tonight I came across this gem of a website: Vetusware It contains a list of all the old software and links to download most of them. There is some genuine classic software like including: Microsoft Windows 1.0 Microsoft DOS 1.0 CPM Turbo Pascal Fortran Cobol And many more... Have a look, especially if your of the older generation, some of these applications won't even run on today's machine but just going through the list can make you nostalgic. Share this post: email it!...
As an update to my post regarding my Vista upgrade Acer has finally released their Vista drivers. For my particular notebook it's a whopping 200MB+ download for the drivers and an additional 300MB+ download for the Applications. Unfortunately it's also one of the slowest FTP's I've seen and I can't get more then 13Kb/s from it. Anyone that owns an Acer notebook or desktop can get the correct drivers here: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/pub/ Edit: For some reason me and Community Server can't agree...
Microsoft made Windows DreamScene available on Ultimate Extra downloads for Windows Vista Ultimate users today. DreamScene is a Ultimate Extra addon that allows you to use any video as your desktop background while using minimal resources. Find out more about it at: Windows DreamScene Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
When I initially played with Vista I didn’t have the hardware to support it, however I have since upgraded, first by getting myself the a Acer TravelMate 5620 (Dual Core 2.0Ghz, 1024MB RAM, 120GB Drive, NVIDIA GeForce Go 256MB) which I am quite proud of. When I installed it in November I had no luck with getting the right drivers. I e-mailed Acer support who insisted that the relevant drivers are available through Windows Update. This was not the case. As I need to use the launch keys to use Wireless and Bluetooth, and often use the Webcam, I decided to uninstall and wait until the official release.
I recently needed to be able to achieve two distinct goals with a Windows Service I was writing, the first was the ability to receive command line parameters and the second the ability to run in debug mode. This would also allow for easier debugging without having to register and install the service and then attempt to attach to the process, and after some research came up with the following solution:
Quick Overview
Start service with commandline parameters (from Command Prompt as well as Service Management)
Pass -d parameter to service to allow starting and running from command line without registering as a service
...I am hoping by posting some of the things I have learnt on my blog, someone else will be able to learn something and apply it practically in their current working environment...