Guy Barrette

I have been using ZoomIt for a while now.  It's a great and free presenter tool that let you zoom on screen areas while demoing stuff but there's a new pretender to the throne: NLarge.  What's so different about NLarge?  Well, it provides you with the same features as ZoomIt and it's also free but it's using WPF for smooth zoom effects.  Cool!

Registration for PDC 2008 is now open:
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Microsoft released a new cool tool called Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.  It's an internal tool that does somewhat FxCop does.  While FxCop analyse the IL, Source Analysis analyse the source code itself.  It comes with about 200 built in rules that are however not customizable.  These rules cover:

DevTeach was held for the first time in Toronto.  When a new dev conference like this comes to town, the hard work is making people aware of the quality of the content they'll get from attending a "paid" conference like DevTeach.  Jean-René Roy, the conference owner, sent the speakers a few comments he received.

I've been using IE/Outlook as my RSS client for a while now but a couple of weeks ago, a switched to Google Reader.  Here are my findings so far:

Let's face it, if you're a small shop, building a redundant Exchange infrastructure is way too hard and way too expensive.  So what if you have a simple Exchange setup with just a few users?  You can prey that you server will never go down and you can plan the reboots after the critical updates installs on Sunday mornings.

[Via Mark Brown's blog]