Jon Galloway

Scott Hanselman's response to Windows Live:  I just don't get it. That was my response today as I read about 50 different announcements on it. But after reading Dare's explanation, it starts to make a bit more sense:

Nice. Oddly enough, you may be safer with illegally copied music. I stopped buying music from online stores due to DRM restrictions preventing copies to more than 3 computers. I've got 5 CPU's just in my house right now.

I recently upgraded to Firefox 1.5 B2. It's been working great, except the Web Developer Extension stopped working - it showed it was installed, but the toolbar and menu item were disabled. Fortunately, Chris just released a new beta of the Web Developer Extension that works great with Firefox 1.5 and has a ton of new features to boot . Yippee!

Speaking of useful macros, this is one I've used for a a few years and thought might be usefull.  It calls the ADODB Data Link Properties dialog (shown below).  After you go through the dialog picking your data source, database, and connection settings, it dumps out the connection string for your configuration into code window where your cursor is located.

Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 release to MSDN today, and so of course MSDN downloads got hit pretty hard this morning. After a shaky start, the download speeds appear to be picking up.

I'm setting up a new dev computer and used MozBackup to migrate all my Firefox extensions. It goes better than that - it also supports copying the extension settings, saved passwords, history, and a bunch of other stuff^[1]. It was kind of spooky when I restored it on my new computer and (since I'm using the SessionSaver extension) seeing all my tabs restored exactly like the old computer.