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Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:14 AM

Jon's News Wrapup - May 8, 2008 Edition

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Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:59 AM

January 2008 Recap

I've had a policy against posting on big news that's likely to be common knowledge in the Microsoft development community, since nobody needs another post saying "Big News, Visual Studio 2008 is out today!" But I think I'm going to break that policy once...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:12 PM

Why CodingHorror is horribly wrong about Blacklists and Virus Scanners

Jeff and I had an interesting debate on virus scanners a few weeks ago. He posted his take on the conversation yesterday, and (surprise!) we both think we won the argument. I believe the difference of opinion really comes down to a few different assumptions...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:49 PM

We should be virtualizing Applications, not Machines

One of the benefits of my new job at Vertigo Software is that I have more frequent opportunities to talk with my co-worker, Jeff Atwood . If everything goes right, we argue... because unless we agree, neither of us is going to learn anything. Recently...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:54 AM

The value of "good enough" technology

Twitter is Good Enough Twitter drives all my tech-savvy friends crazy. We all agree that the idea - a simple mix of blog, chat, and IM - is a good one. However the site does very little, and what it does it does poorly - slow response, frequent outages...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:15 AM

Why Microsoft can't ship open source code

I've suggested a few times that Microsoft could go beyond just cooperating with the open source community and actually ship open source code. For instance, Paint.NET is a great alternative to MS Paint, so not just bundle it? Tonight I had a very long...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:25 AM

Freeing up drive space on Windows XP

I just cleaned up my computer in preparation for an upgrade to Vista. Here's how I did it: Empty Recycle Bin (Yes, I know. Not rocket surgery so far. Keep with me, I'm getting warmed up.) If you bought a PC with XP preinstalled, consider running...
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Monday, November 20, 2006 12:43 AM

Top 10 DOS Batch tips (Yes, DOS Batch...)

PowerShell's great. I'm fired up about the opportunity to use .NET objects from simple scripts. I'll admit I'm still getting up to speed with it, but I'm totally sold on PowerShell. However, it's not installed on a lot of servers...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:59 AM

Data Dictionary Creator 1.2 is out on CodePlex

We just released Data Dictionary Creator version 1.2 to CodePlex . Version 1.2 adds a lot of great features: Added documentation of tables as well as columns Changed Excel export from HTML based to XMLSpreadsheet to support separate worksheets for Table...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:04 PM

Mono 1.2 Released

Novell released Mono 1.2 at TechEd today. The main feature of 1.2 is support for System.Windows.Forms. The roadmap and previous releases indicate that 1.2 has a lot of other cool features, but it's hard to tell exactly what they are since the release...
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