April 2006 - Posts - Peter's Software House

April 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:51 PM

The 2006 e-readiness rankings

The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual report on global "e-readiness" rankings is available (for free). For anyone interested in country-level relative uptake of Internet and related technologies, digital divide, etc, this is a valuable study.

The digital divide is apparently shrinking. Also, South Africa is 35th and New Zealand is tied for 14th (with Austria) in e-readiness. Denmark tops the list, followed by the USA.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:27 PM

Microsoft release - Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 as a free ebook

I'm a C# guy, but for those of you who do VB here is something from Microsoft.

Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter. They'll step you through a quick primer on .NET Framework programming, offering guidance for a productive transition. If you already work with .NET, you'll jump directly into what's new, learning how to extend your existing skills. From the innovations in rapid application development, debugging, and deployment, to new data access, desktop, and Web programming capabilities, you get the insights and code walkthroughs you need to be productive right away.

Entire Book

Download all 8 chapters.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:24 PM

Visual Studio 2005 crashes when opening big solution

Visual Studio 2005 kept on crashing on me today when I tried to open a very large solution. So I decided to delete the .suo file for the solution and that solved the problem. So maybe it got a bit corrupted, who knows at least I can get back to work and stop the swaering. ;)
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Monday, April 03, 2006 12:44 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 = FREE

If your a developer and have not used Virtual Server yet, then you are missing out! And now Virtual Server 2005 R2 is absolutely free. And for the Linux buffs, it now runs Linux as well.
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Saturday, April 01, 2006 4:36 PM

3.5Mbps

Woooooohooooooooo

Look what I found when I looked at my connection speed this morning, jumped from 2Mbps to 3.5 Mbps. Yea alright the upstream is still shitty, but I can get even that upped to 512Kbps for an additional NZ$20. Sorry for you poor buggers in SA still stuck at a max of 1Mbps. ;)

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