Contents tagged with Miscellaneous Debris
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Saving Your Settings
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 … more
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Screencasts vs. Whitepapers
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, … more
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Zune Desktop Theme - A Warning
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 200 … more
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One-Click Wonder
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 … more
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VSS2005 - staying in line
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 … more
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When is a dash not a dash?
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 … more
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Macro Origins
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 … more
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Outlook Miscellany: Erasing a name from the Autocomplete Cache
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 … more
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Debugging HTML that is rendered at runtime.
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 … more
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A man's home (network) is his Castle
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- … more