socaltech - Goodreads Acquired By Amazon.com Book review and community Goodreads, which was founded in Santa Monica by Otis Chander, has been acquired by Amazon.com, Amazon said Thursday afternoon. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Goodreads' site revolves around sharing book recommendations and networking between book readers ..." Exciting News About Goodreads: We're Joining the Amazon Family! When Elizabeth and I started Goodreads from my living room seven years ago, we set out to create a better way for people to find...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Microsoft on Issues - Enhancing Transparency: Putting Microsoft’s Patents on the Web Last month at an event on Capitol Hill, Microsoft pledged to put information on the Web that would enable anyone to determine for which patents we are the real party in interest. As I mentioned in my blog post about the event, transparency regarding patent ownership is an important part of a well-functioning patent system. One of the fundamental objectives...
404 Tech Support - Arena.Xlsm, an RPG built using Excel If you have your nose buried in spreadsheets all day at the office, you might enjoy a little change of pace even with Excel open. Cary Walkin, a chartered accountant up in the great white north, has created an RPG using just Excel’s macro system. It works on the Windows versions of Excel 2007 – 2013. ... The game even includes achievements, tons of different enemies, and 8 different...
Sysinternals Site Discussion - Updates: Autoruns v11.5, Du (Disk Usage) v1.5, Procdump v5.14, Procmon v3.04, Ru (Registry Usage) v1.0 Autoruns v11.5: ... Disk Usage (Du) v1.5: ... ProcDump v5.14: .... Process Monitor v3.04: .... Registry Usage (RU) v1.0: Ru (Registry Usage) is a new command-line utility that reports the size, value and subkey counts of registry keys. Like its Sysinternals Du (Disk Usage) counterpart, Ru can help you find the keys that contribute to registry bloat. Any day we get a new Sysinternals tool is a bright...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
LifeHacker - How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS and Kick Google Reader to the Curb Yes, Google Reader is going away, and yes, there are great alternatives. However, if you're tired of web services shutting down on you, why not take matters into your own hands? Tiny Tiny RSS is a free, open-source syncing RSS platform with more features than Google Reader ever had, and it can't get shut down. Here's how to install it and set it up. What You'll Get Setting up Tiny Tiny RSS requires a little patience, but it's deceptively...
CodeProject - Using "Send To" feature to add destinations to itself Introduction Here is a time saver tip to add shortcuts to the Windows "Send to" menu by using the "Send to" feature on itself. Background The "Send to" context menu in Windows is a handy feature that enables you to quickly send a file to different locations or applications like floppy disk, desktop, e-mail etc. If you look at the Microsoft documentation here there...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Kurt Shintaku's Blog - WHITEPAPER: Windows Azure eBook References There’s been a great deal of documentation published for Windows Azure over the past 6 months. Take a look at some of these references if you’re working on an application for the cloud on the Windows Azure platform. I've highlighted a number of these in the past, but it's great to have them all in one roundup post......
Michael Crump - Nice Tool for Presenters who use Visual Studio 2012 Introduction While setting up for my Nokia Lumia Labs presentation, I had one of the organizers ask me how I was able to switch fonts and make everything easier to read in a matter of seconds. I told him that I simply installed the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and with 2 simple commands could switch between presenter mode or non-presenter mode. Let’s...
Monday, 25 March 2013
CodePlex - Paint.NET Spritesheet Export Plugin A Paint.NET FileType plugin that takes an image that contains sprites on multiple layers and lays them out into an evenly spaced spritesheet. This is one of those cool things that I would never find again if I ever needed it (Shut up...you never know... I could write a game or app that needs something like this. So I can't draw my way out of a wet paper sack, with holes on both sides...
SupportingWindows - Alternate Data Streams in NTFS This blog has been a long time coming. There is a bit of confusion about the subject of alternate data streams (ADS) and no small amount of suspicion. So I want to take a few minutes to set the record straight on ADS. A couple years ago I wrote a blog on NTFS attributes. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/08/25/ntfs-file-attributes.aspx You might want to review that blog...
.Net Slave - Introducing Pretty Paste for VS2012 Download Pretty Paste now! One of the things that have annoyed me about Visual Studio for many years, is the inconsistency when pasting code copied from websites. Depending on the browser you get different results. Consider the code snippet below copied from one of Sayed’s blog posts. If I copy that from Internet Explorer and paste it into Visual Studio, this is what I get: And...
Friday, 22 March 2013
JasonSingh - Problems with Copy Pasting Code - And Modifying Slightly... Then How To Go Back And Fix It All Up Afterwards. As developers, we often find ourselves under a lot of pressure to crank out code and copy then paste it somewhere else in a solution and make a slight modification here and there and get the product out the door. It's a frequent occurrence and hence the number of lines of code is not a great measure of quality code. There's nothing wrong if it gets the code out the door, however, when we have time we can go back and fix...
Visual Studio Gallery - Paste FixR Fixes the issue where copied text from IE or Word introduces new blank lines when pasted into Visual Studio. Open source and pull requests accepted https://github.com/madskristensen/PasteR How it works Just paste any copied code into VS as you normally would. Paste FixR takes care of the rest. Paste FixR fixes the issue where copied text from IE or Word introduces new blank lines when pasted into Visual Studio. It works by injected itself just before the actual Paste command it executed. From here,...
The Exchange Blog - Preserve mailbox data for eDiscovery using inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online In Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2013, you can use In-Place Hold to preserve mailbox content for litigation or investigations. Many organizations also need to preserve mailbox data for users who are no longer in the organization. In on-premises Exchange deployments, this has typically been done by disabling the Active Directory user account and performing actions such as removing it from distribution groups, preventing inbound/outbound...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Dean Hume - Free icon packs for developers Over the years, I have started to hoard a collection of links to various free icons that I find on the net. Often, I use these icons to spruce up simple prototypes or just make my web pages look livelier. Unfortunately, I've been collecting these links to icon packs and never get the chance to use half of them! If you are a web developer that has need for free icons, then this might be for you. This...
WPCentral - Portico update finally available to Lumia 920s from BUILD About 2000 people attended the //BUILD/ developer conference this past fall in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft attracted attendees from all over the globe in an event that sold out in less than an hour when tickets went on sale in August. You were given a Surface RT, Lumia 920, and 100GB of SkyDrive as part of your $1600+ registration fee. Unfortunately for folks with those Lumia 920’s, you haven’t had early or timely access for the Portico update. At least until today. ...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Coding4Fun Lockscreen Coding4Fun Lockscreen is an application for Windows Phone 8 that is built around a ASP.NET and Azure Mobile Services infrastructure. It enables the user to have his lockscreen image cycle through a pre-defined set of custom images, or through a custom, self-created image set. Follow these steps to try the project after the download: Download and install the Azure Mobile Services SDK In Coding4Fun.Lockscreen.Core,...
Caliburn.Micro - Caliburn.Micro v1.5.0 "Release Notes This release fixes many bugs. It also adds support for Task and async/await functionality, including integration with co-routines. For WinRT, we now have built-in support for the Share and Settings charms. Packages Available on Nuget Caliburn.Micro – The full framework compiled into an assembly. Caliburn.Micro.Start - Includes Caliburn.Micro plus a starting bootstrapper, view model and view. Caliburn.Micro.Container – The Caliburn.Micro inversion of control container...
Visual Studio Gallery - Image Tools A Visual Studio extension that offers image manipulation options. You can resize, optimize and rotate your images easily from your VS Solution Explorer. Also conversion support for PNG, GIF and JPG files. CREATED BY: Guus Beltman SUPPORTS: Visual Studio 2012 LAST UPDATED: 3/18/2013 VERSION: 1.0 Adds useful image resizing features to Visual Studio for web developers. Also capable to convert,...
Monday, 18 March 2013
Microsoft Volume Licensing Blog - New Customer Microsoft Volume Licensing Training Classes Now in Session Join the more than 5,000 IT and procurement professionals who have already gained Microsoft licensing Expert accreditation; Take the new licensing SQL Server 2012 and Licensing Office 2013 and Office 365 classes and become an expert In the past year, more than 5,000 students have passed the Customer Licensing Expert program launched last summer at Tech Ed North America. In celebration of the program’s success, Microsoft Volume Licensing...
NHunspell News 2013/03/18 NHunspell 1.1.0 RTM Releasing NHunspell 1.1.0 RTM Hunspell 1.3.2, Hyphen 2.8.6 Patches till 2013-03-14 Spell Checker, Hyphenation and Thesaurus: NHunspell NHunspell brings the spell checking, hyphenation and thesaurus to the Microsoft® .NET Framework. NHunspell is C# library and wraps native libraries for Hunspell, Hyphen and MyThes. One design goal of this library and wrapper is to keep...
inessential - Brian’s Stupid Feed Tricks At NewsGator and Sepia Labs I worked with Brian Reischl, one of the server-side guys. Among other things, he worked on NewsGator’s RSS content service, which reads n million feeds once an hour. (I don’t know if I can say what n is. It surprised me when I heard it. The system is still running, by the way.) Brian is intimately acquainted with the the different ways feeds can be screwed up. So he posted...
<xaml:Blog x:Name="Brian Lagunas" /> - XamDockManager–An Updated Prism Region Adapter Last September, I wrote what has become a very popular Prism region adapter for the Infragistics XamDockManager control. As pointed out in the post, this original XamDockManager Prism region adapter didn’t support all scenarios. Frankly, it’s difficult to write a custom region adapter without knowing every usage of the control. After receiving tons of requests for features and questions on how to implement certain scenarios, I have...
Software By Default - C# How to: Generating Icons from Images This article illustrates the process of generating icon files (*.ico) from user specified input images. The accompanying sample source code implements a Windows Forms application, allowing for easily testing the icon generation process. Sample source code This article is accompanied by a sample source code Visual Studio project which is available for download here. ......
Mobility Digest - Using Google Docs to Combat Google Reader Situation Was reading an MIT article (I’m super smart), found an impressive spreadsheet detailing all the alternatives to Google Reader should they indeed pull the plug. People around the world are currently collaborating on it but it’s already helpful, you might want to take a gander here, http://goo.gl/CvcBo, or if you’re super smart too (not likely), here’s the MIT article: http://goo.gl/FFI1H [GD:...
Friday, 15 March 2013
With Google Reader and my client reader of choice both dead, and given my complete reliance on consuming feeds, I, like so many of you, have started shopping for a replacement. This is my thinking out loud list of stuff I must have/should have/would be nice if it had feature list. First off, I'm an edge case. Probably close to a worse case edge case. I subscribe to, as of this morning, 2,536 feeds. Many of these feeds are aggregate feeds, like blogs.msdn.com, etc. While many of those feeds might not be active (my philosophy has been, when in doubt...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Nick Bradbury - The End of FeedDemon "This is a hard post for me to write. I've used FeedDemon every day since I created it back in 2003 - it's part of my daily workflow, the first thing I turn to after pouring myself a cup of coffee in the morning. I've thoroughly enjoyed working on it and I'm grateful for all of the people who paid for it over the years despite free alternatives. But it's time for FeedDemon to die. If you're an avid FeedDemon user, you probably know that I've struggled to keep it updated. FeedDemon stopped "paying...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Google Reader Blog - Powering Down Google Reader "... We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Reader (the actual date is July 1, 2013). We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too. There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience. ... Thank you again for using Reader as your RSS...
DesignMichel - A new ressource for your icons… …is available here : http://iconmonstr.com/ And the icons come in svg format… iconmonstr iconmonstr - License Agreement "... You are allowed to ... Use in both personal and commercial projects with no attribution required. Use in a website or presentation template or application as part of your design with no attribution required. Modify in shape, color, size or otherwise...
Gizmodo - Re-Enact the Greatest Space Battle of All Time on Your Living Room Wall Why suffer through all the boring parts of the Star Wars movies when this set of self-adhesive vinyl decals lets you perpetually relive the best part: that epic space battle from Return of the Jedi. For $30 the collection includes a squadron of X-Wings and TIE Fighters ... And I have this perfect wall in my living room for this! I wonder what my wife will...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Edvangelism, a blog by Edwin Guarin - New Pre-Release Support for Windows App Developers "As part of our initiatives to support the Windows developer community, we have collaborated with PreApps.com; the exclusive place to preview, rate, and test the best mobile apps coming soon. The site will help our developers market their Windows apps before release. PreApps helps developers improve their app’s chance of success through increased downloads,...
Monday, 11 March 2013
Jean-Sébastien Dupuy - Windows Phone 8 - Company Hub Development Company Hub ? Since the arrival of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft offers businesses the opportunity to develop enterprise portals (Company Hub) to publish applications for their employees. The aim is to provide business applications, necessary for the needs of a corporation, without validation or publication on the Microsoft Windows Phone Store. In addition to the applications management...
AspRangers - Free : Win 8 App Design Reference Templates Now to help you in Designing the Great APP( s). Here are the Design Templates which you can use : There are total of 55 templates. Complete list here http://aka.ms/win8templates Adding few below CodePlex win8template Search Windows 8 App Design Reference Template: Recipe Disclaimer: The template provided in the form of Visual Studio project (C# and JS)...
Friday, 8 March 2013
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Infragistics - Get Started Learning Ignite UI Today! Anytime you approach a new library or set of controls sometimes it’s nice to get a helping hand. In an effort to make it drop-dead simple for you to learn how to get started with Ignite UI, I am announcing the release of Fundamentals of Ignite UI. This video series will acquaint you with Ignite UI from some of the high level architectural constructs down to the details a control’s API....
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