September 2006 Entries
Good post by Agnus Logan on how to pitch MOSS to customers. So I find it when I need it.
I've seen Scott Hanselman blogging about Foxit Reader for reading PDF's a couple of times. So when Adobe started thier shit about not wanting Microsoft to put a "Save as PDF..." button/menu option in Offie 2007, I figured it was time to try something new. I also have had problems with Acrobat Reader not closing correctly so I have to "End Task" when I close windwos... Anyway, I tried Foxit Reader and man it's fast! I didn't even have to run an installer. After using it for about a month I have only possitive things to say about it.
My earlier appraisals of my iPod all rapidly went out the window two weeks ago when it just died on me. After struggling with it to about 3 in the night/morning I finally was able to reformat it using Apple's application for doing so. One small setback though, the hardrive shrinked from 60 GB to 16 GB!! So I'm thinking WTF, but no worries. It's less than a year since I bought it. Apple will fix it as a part of the warranty. So, I go through the trouble of registering a request for service, drive to the UPS H.Q....
I've installed Virtual Server 2005 SP2 Beta1 and was thrilled to find the tool VHDMount. It's used to map up virtual hardrives (vhd's) as regular drives in windows. Only I ran in to a slight problem under XP. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>vhdmount.exe /m "g:\Work\VPC's\MOSS 2007 Tech Resource CD\MOSSBeta2.vhd" Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is not available. This option uses Virtual Disk Service to mount the volumes on the VHD file. Use /p. So I tried using the /p flag. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount>vhdmount.exe /p "g:\Work\VPC's\MOSS 2007 Tech Resource CD\MOSSBeta2.vhd" The VHD file is successfully...
This summer I've been reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and David Thomas. And there is nothing else to do but to join the masses of appraisers. It's a really good read. The stuff these boys introduce and advocates is good. The only thing I really found my self disagreeing to was the part about writing your own domain specific compiler for the domain you're working in (I'm referring to the Domain Languages section in Chapter 2), seems to me there can be a maintenance trap there. But that's just a gut feeling and nothing empiric. To be totally honest...
Windows Vista RC1 is here, and it's official!