Tech: March 2009 Archives
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!
Engineering Windows 7: Beta to RC Changes - Turning Windows Features On or Off
Hurrah.
Sorry, what that actually should say is, "why should I care?". A lot of people on the Interweb seem to be making a very big thing about IE being removable from Windows. So? Due to the sheer size of its market share, any developer who does anything web related is going to need it turned on. 99% of end users (of the non-technical have google.com as their homepage and type www.bbc.co.uk into the google search box to get to the bbc site - don't gasp, I've seen it!) will have it switched on.
Making Internet Explorer optional really won't be the big event people seem to think it is. *shrug*
At least it's Friday ;-)
Hurrah.
Sorry, what that actually should say is, "why should I care?". A lot of people on the Interweb seem to be making a very big thing about IE being removable from Windows. So? Due to the sheer size of its market share, any developer who does anything web related is going to need it turned on. 99% of end users (of the non-technical have google.com as their homepage and type www.bbc.co.uk into the google search box to get to the bbc site - don't gasp, I've seen it!) will have it switched on.
Making Internet Explorer optional really won't be the big event people seem to think it is. *shrug*
At least it's Friday ;-)
ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2
It's here, still need to look into it in detail and get my head round it. Lazy me!
The Suggestion Box is for suggestions, that's why it's called a Suggestion Box
"Yuhong Bao" does seem to be the randomest commenter on the planet.
It's here, still need to look into it in detail and get my head round it. Lazy me!
The Suggestion Box is for suggestions, that's why it's called a Suggestion Box
"Yuhong Bao" does seem to be the randomest commenter on the planet.
