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OMFG why does Vista have to ask me to confirm everything I ever do with my computer.
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Drunk Master Dev: How to move Business Contact Manager database to another instance of SQL Server 2005:
If you're running the Business Contact Manager for Outlook, you've no doubt noticed that during the installation process, a named instance of SQL Server 2005 Express also gets installed. The instance is called MSSMLBIZ and is used to host the BCM database.
So I have this extra instance of SQL Server on my computer... great. I want to uninstall everything and install the developer edition of SQL Server, but I have this thing in the way.
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Globalization Step-by-Step: Currency Formatting. Now the question is how that's handled in a web environment.
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XML Notepad 2007, XML editor from Microsoft. To try.
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Windows PowerShell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. So, I had no idea that Monad had turned into Windows Powershell. I'm excited that Monad saw the light of day even though it didn't come as part of Vista. And it looks like you can work with PowerShell almost the same as you'd work with a unix shell.
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CodeProject: Debugging Windows Services under Visual Studio .NET..
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Solution 1: SQL Server Equivalent To MySQL And PostgreSQL Limit Clause - Joseph Scott’s Blog. Note: assumes unique keys.
SELECT TOP n *
FROM tablename
WHERE key NOT IN (
SELECT TOP x key
FROM tablename
ORDER BY key
)
Solution 2: Finally a LIMIT clause for MS SQL. (Same solution recommended here, with a small explanation.)
select * from (
select top 10 emp_id,lname,fname from (
select top 30 emp_id,lname,fname
from employee
order by lname asc
) as newtbl order by lname desc
) as newtbl2 order by lname asc
Edit: The above is in SQL Server 2k... for 2005 there's a new row_number() function.
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IEBlog : File URIs in Windows.
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Ruby on Windows: Displaying a MessageBox Using the Windows API.
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IEBlog : IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine. Run IE6 through Virtual PC... Virtual PC and IE6 image all provided free by Microsoft.
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Matt Raible relays comments from Don Box:
Richard Monson-Haefel asks "Is there a place for AOP in .NET or is it too sophisticated for your developers." Don's take is "My development platform should allow me to write code w/ a couple of beers in me." He ragged a bit on Java developers and said their main problem is they think they're smarter than they are. He also said that if he could change on thing at MSFT, it would be that Ruby becomes the language of choice.
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Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows.
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Paul Graham: Microsoft is Dead, via.
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I hate copying files in Windows.
"Do you want to overwrite?"
"Yes to all."
"But what about this one, it's read-only?"
"Yes, all".
"Oh hey, um, this one's a system file (thumbs.db). You sure?"
"Yes already"
Every time I update this directory. Not sure if there's a way to turn it off. I hate Windows.
WinFS is dead. Charles Miller has a good post about it.
Update: Joseph Scott: "At some point I hope to see a giant collective “we’ll believe it when it ships” response when Microsoft announces yet another new technology that will change everything."
Upon automatically installing updates, Windows will reboot your computer without your consent, losing any unsaved work in the process.
This is the most asinine designed behavior I can think of. Haven't verified that these fixes work.
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Coding Horror: XP Automatic Update Nagging. I set "Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations" to 720 minutes (12 hours).
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Apple - Boot Camp:
Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.
Ooh.
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The History of Microsoft - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). Kind of a funny video, mostly consisting of public MS screwups and demo crashes. But that's not what I care about... what I care about is that towards the beginning Steve Jobs has the same criticism of Microsoft that I have. As an organization, Microsoft has no taste.
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YouTube - microsoft ipod packaging parody (via Matt). Excellently done, it exemplifies my biggest criticism of Microsoft: as an organization, from top to bottom, they lack taste.
Update (3/25): Turns out the video was done by Microsoft (via Matt)!
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IronPython 0.6 has been released as open source timed to coincide with OSCON, and the author, Jim Hugunin, is going to work for Microsoft to work on the CLR.
It was a little less than a year ago that I first started investigating the Common Language Runtime (CLR). My plan was to do a little work and then write a short pithy article called, "Why .NET is a terrible platform for dynamic languages". My plans changed when I found the CLR to be an excellent target for the highly dynamic Python language. Since then I've spent much of my spare time working on the development of IronPython.
The more time that I spent with the CLR, the more excited I became about its potential. At the same time, I was becoming more frustrated with the slow pace of progress that I was able to make working on this project in my spare time. After exploring many alternatives, I think that I've found the ideal way to continue working to realize the amazing potential of the vision of the CLR. I've decided to join the CLR team at Microsoft beginning on August 2.
At Microsoft I plan to continue the work that I've begun with IronPython to bring the power and simplicity of dynamic/scripting languages to the CLR. My work with Python should continue as a working example of a high-performance production quality implementation of a dynamic language for the CLR. I will also reach out to other languages to help overcome any hurdles that are preventing them from targeting the CLR effectively.
Ed Dumbill has comments. It turns out he was able to take the source code for IronPython (which is written in C#) and run it directly on Mono with no changes. That's excellent!
John Udell has more:
"When you think about it," Hugunin said, "why would the CLR be worse for dynamic languages than the JVM, given that Microsoft had the second mover advantage?" And in fact, while he had to do plenty of extra work to support dynamic features that the CLR doesn't natively offer, he notes that the massive engineering resources invested in the CLR make it highly optimized along a number of axes. So, for example, the CLR's function call overhead is apparently less than the native-code CPython's function call overhead, and this is one of the reasons why IronPython benchmarks well against CPython.
All of this is great news. Discussion at Lambda.
Microsoft makes horribly insecure products, so to protect themselves from having arbitrary code execute in their e-mail program, they just block most anything from being opened altogether. Even if you know what you're doing, and you want the attachment, you can't get at it without hacking your registry. Damn you Microsoft!
But it looks like that registry hack only works for Outlook 2002, and there's really no good way to get around the hack that they put in to block you from getting your own file. Grrrr...
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