Miscellanea 12
Stop Blaming Technology and Own Up to Responsibility
Never a truer word spoken. The number of times we see a "XYZ will solve everything", or, "ABC is no good for anything" is silly. Use the right tools for the job, don't try and use a screwdriver to hammer a nail in and don't expect an adjustable spanner to fit all sizes of nut. Metaphors aside, take a read of the linked blog entry, well worth reading.
Side by side: UI changes from Windows 7 beta to build 7048
Shiny, pretty. I've, personally, never had performance issues with Vista (or with anything else for that matter, so I'd quite like the Cialis/Viagra spam to stop, heh). If Windows 7 is faster than Vista, I'm gonna be laughing! What I do hope is that some of the UI "annoyances" where it takes longer to do things in Vista than XP are resolved. Like, getting to the screen to adjust multiple-monitors, t'was on the desktop right-click in XP. In Vista it's desktop right-click then choose option from window that opens. Ugh.
ASP.NET Configuration File Hierarchy and Inheritance
Must read in detail. I need to work out if it's possible to include/exclude different HTTPModules (say different modules for processing file uploads) in different levels of a single asp.net application by having web.config files in sub-directories. Initial (10minute) investigation seems to indicate it works in Cassini, but not in IIS6. Grr!
Never a truer word spoken. The number of times we see a "XYZ will solve everything", or, "ABC is no good for anything" is silly. Use the right tools for the job, don't try and use a screwdriver to hammer a nail in and don't expect an adjustable spanner to fit all sizes of nut. Metaphors aside, take a read of the linked blog entry, well worth reading.
Side by side: UI changes from Windows 7 beta to build 7048
Shiny, pretty. I've, personally, never had performance issues with Vista (or with anything else for that matter, so I'd quite like the Cialis/Viagra spam to stop, heh). If Windows 7 is faster than Vista, I'm gonna be laughing! What I do hope is that some of the UI "annoyances" where it takes longer to do things in Vista than XP are resolved. Like, getting to the screen to adjust multiple-monitors, t'was on the desktop right-click in XP. In Vista it's desktop right-click then choose option from window that opens. Ugh.
ASP.NET Configuration File Hierarchy and Inheritance
Must read in detail. I need to work out if it's possible to include/exclude different HTTPModules (say different modules for processing file uploads) in different levels of a single asp.net application by having web.config files in sub-directories. Initial (10minute) investigation seems to indicate it works in Cassini, but not in IIS6. Grr!
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