Today's featured link is all about Visual Studio 2012 and code map's. While some might argue that it is unfair that some of the code quality tools are only available in Visual Studio Ultimate editions (and I'm inclined to agree), I also take cognisance of the fact that there are other 3rd…
Microsoft has come a long way since its beginnings and has grown into a true powerhouse of the Technology world. Bill Gates, though no longer actively involved at Microsoft is focussing his time and energies on his philanthropic work. It is this legacy that he will, in my opinion be…
Reverse Engineering is a very real threat in today's software development landscape. A colleague of mine had to reverse engineer an application that needed changes made to the code logic. The problem was that the previous developer left without handing over the source. The gist of today's featured link is…
IntelliTrace is a new feature introduced by Microsoft in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (Yes believe it or not, not everyone is using Visual Studio 2012 yet). It was previously known as Historical Debugger. IntelliTrace is a tool that helps developers track down bugs that might not be reproducible in their managed…
Kunal Chowdhury shares a tip he learned while looking for a solution to his Microsoft Surface RT device not switching on. Even though the device was fully charged, he was unable to turn on the device. See his post for more info. If you want to learn more about Microsoft Surface, have…
Windows 8 has redesigned the Task Manager. It’s better and more advanced than the previous versions of it. Did you know that you can customize Windows 8 Task Manager to your liking?
Take a look at the tabs along the top and you will notice (among others) Performance, Startup, App history but to name a few. (You might also want to read this post: Windows 8 Tips Part 16 – Change Startup Programs… But Where Is Startup?)
Moving Startup here makes sense, because I can now have a one-stop screen for most things application and process related. For me anyway, I want to tweak the Task Manager a bit to suit my preferences. This is quite easy enough to do. (more…)
Windows 8 dev... Have you every wanted to try it? With so many resources online (due in part to a huge push by Microsoft), you have a wealth of information at your fingertips. A good starting place is the following article by Mickey MacDonald. He talks about creating a Windows…
Today I start with a great animation of Star Wars Episode IV which condenses the whole episode to one minute. That is well worth the awesomeness. So take a spin through Star Wars: A New Hope. Incidentally, these are the same folks that brought us the sixty second remake of The Matrix.…
I have to say that when I first thought about the journey that Paul Miller took, I was confronted by my own inner demons of what my life would be without the Internet. You see, Paul Miller undertook to stop using the Internet for a whole year. No emails, no Google Maps, no Reddit, no Twitter, no Facebook, no reviews of the latest movie or restaurant or accommodation. He took a brave step back to 5 August 1991, into where we came from… the unknown time before we had the Internet.
On 6 August 1991, the Internet became publicly available. Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This heralded the birth of a new phenomenon of the human race that changed the world as we knew it. (more…)
China fired back at the United States saying that it was “the real hacking empire”. This after a report from the Pentagon which said that Beijing was directly responsible for cyber attacks on the U.S. (Enter secret spy thriller music here). For those of you who are interested in learning…