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Tomorrow I am bidding my laptop farewell, and will soon buy me a new one. This results in what I like to call Settings Anxiety. I spend months tuning various aspects of my computer to my liking, and starting afresh with a new machine is wearisome. There...
A few weeks ago, Lawrence Liu (a senior technical PM and community lead for Sharepoint at Microsoft) linked to a few screencasts for learning how to use various features in MOSS2007. In that entry, he mentioned how screecasts are more effective and efficient...
A few days ago, Microsoft released a new Desktop Theme for Windows XP named the "Zune Desktop Theme" – even though it looks a lot like Vista, all in black and orange. It fits in with Office 2007's Black skin, so I gleefully installed it. Everything was...
It turns out that you can easily close a tab with one click on the middle mouse button. On most modern mice, this would be the scroll wheel button. No fuss, no right-clicking, no selecting the tab and going to the other end of the screen for the X button...
Working with Visual SourceSafe always feels to me like walking on eggshells. One wrong move and you get that sickening crunching feeling and things seem to collapse. My current project's integrator decided to keep things neat. There's a central solution...
An interesting an unusually frustrating pitfall that I've stumbled into a few times: Many times when we're preparing for deployment of a software product, we find ourselves preparing a Word document with the steps for installation. In the case of my current...
I've been wondering about the origin and etymology of the term "macro" as it is used in programming. The general use for it is to mean something large - the opposite of "micro" - but it didn't seem to fit for the concept it's used for. Luckily, the Online...
The drop-down list of names that Outlook gives us to auto-complete a name or address being written is stored in a file called <ProfileName>.NK2 in our Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook directory. This file is stored in a proprietary binary format...
A little tip when we're generating HTML content on-the-fly using client-side code, whether HTC behaviours or javascript: As we all know, when we try to View Source on such a page, the HTML we see is the base HTML that was received from the server, not...
The Longhorn Identity System (codename "Castle") is a long-awaited feature. It replaces the ancient Workgroup model in home Windows installation with something that's more lightweight than a full-blown Active Directory. Been hoping for something like...
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