If this little puppy works then expect to see a really bad webcam on this site in the near future… just ”need” to get a power adapter as this would eat batteries!
Got to get me one of these…
The new word-of-mouth friendly advertising
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Some wonderful ads – the Seinfeld/Superman one is brilliant – you gotta love Seinfeld (wonder how much he got paid for this thing though!)
MSDN in Firefox fecked!
At last an answer the problem I have been having with MSDN recently inside Mozilla Firefox 0.8 – and hopefully the guy’s issue will be raised to the right people and it will be fixed.
At least its not just me!
New version of FxCop
There’s a new version of FxCop been released – v1.30. Looks very nice, although there is some debate ongoing about some of its new performance rules.
Also it now nolonger locks the assemblies its analysed – a feature long in the waiting for!
On the other hand there is a small bug where you can no longer click on the code link to go straight to the code if there is a space in your pathname – very annoying and a fix is due to be released (soon I hope).
Microsoft releases open source product
Is this a first? Microsoft have released one of their internal development tools as an open source product, on SourceForge no less.
The tool is an XML based Windows Installer (MSI) creation tool, used internally within Microsoft by a hell of a lot of people, and it has now been released into the wild.
I look forward to trying out this product and seeing what it can do for me, should be interesting.
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The Bike with Square Wheels
Some mad mathematician has created a bike with square wheels, but it rides perfectly smoothly.
This ScienceNews article explains all.
Bizzare Third World Fridge
A guy in Nigeria has invented a fridge out of 2 pots, a cloth and some wet sand.
How cool is that! (pun intended)
Whidbey Community Technology Preview – Part I
Finally got it installed, so am going to go over some things I notice and like/dislike.
Firstly, I didn’t get to have a look at the PDC version of Whidbey, so I don’t know what differences there will be between that and this.
Secondly – its a pre-beta version, or alpha, so I don’t expect everything to be all lovely.
Thirdly – I’m running it under Virtual PC so I’m not going to comment on performance, as its slow to start with.
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