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Alone in the Dark with Microsoft Desktop Virtualization by Bil Simser

I don’t often get too bitchy with the mother ship, but I have to say that I’m highly disappointed with Microsoft and it’s desktop virtualization strategy. In fact, they really have forced us SharePoint developers to go down very few paths, and most roads...

How do you know she’s a witch? by Bil Simser

She looks like one! So begins one of my favourite skits in movie history, the witch scene from Monty Python and Holy Grail. The gist of it is: If she weighs the same as a duck then she’s made of wood and therefore… A witch! And what do we do with witches...

BlackBerry App Store, $200 do not pass go, do not upload application. by Bil Simser

I work on a BlackBerry app called DopeWars . It’s a silly little app and isn’t going to make me a world of money (it’s free and open source) but it’s fun and my diversion into the BlackBerry/Java world (as painful as the development environment is there...

Windows Server 2008 Tidbit #3,627 by Bil Simser

Feel free to mock me but I’m just a simple developer, your modern ways frighten and confuse me. If you know me, I’m a command line junkie and I’m all for shortcut typing and trying to maximize the effort my fingers have to go through by typing less (no...

Passion and Pride by Bil Simser

No, you didn't stumbled onto the beginnings of a new Jane Austen novel. It's been a heck of a long time since I blogged and despite being abducted by aliens for the last month, I'm back on the wagon again. Passion and Pride. These are two key attributes...

The Anti-Architect by Bil Simser

I'll come out of the closet for a moment as I become a little more jaded in life and bitter this holiday season. I'm an Anti-Architect. I'm all for software architecture as the alternative is let some guy who read "Teach Yourself SharePoint Programming...

Visual Debian Installation Walkthrough using Virtual PC by Bil Simser

I had to work on some code inside of a “real” *nix system recently so I though I would give everyone a visual walkthrough of setting up the operating system. I need to pave a new image so I figured I would just share with the rest of the class setting...

9 Options, 4 Icons, 1 MessageBox by Bil Simser

You know there are things in life that you never notice or worry about. This is one of them. The MessageBox API in Windows Forms allows you to specify message box icons to display along side your all-important message you're communicating to the user...

The First Spec You Should Write When Using Castle by Bil Simser

Thought this might be useful. On a new project where you're using the Castle Windsor container for Dependency Injection, this is a handy spec to have: [ TestFixture ] public class When_starting_the_application : Spec { [ Test ] public void verify_Castle_Windsor_mappings_are_correct...

Day-to-day with Subversion by Bil Simser

How many times have you said "What version is in production?" or "Can we rebuild production to fix a bug and release an update?" Better yet my favourite: "We're working on Feature Y so we can't fix the bug for Feature X. Doing...
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