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Thursday, January 4th, 2007Time to get serious on my resolutions. Well, at least one anyway; I'll start the waist shrinking/walking later. It's Thursday Geekout time!
Inspired by Robert Scoble's Podtech.net live.com gadget posting, and a general feeling that gadgets are where it is at for non-professional programmers like myself.
So, first port-of-call http://gallery.live.com/ then on to the Developer center
Decision time: [...]
XML Goo-i-ness Inside
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Microsoft pre-released their XAML-in-the-browser technology, WPF/e earlier this week. XAML inside.
XAML "smells" like the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). DOM-inside-a-DOM, Declarative animation, 2D graphics. XAML maybe not SVG, but it certainly tips its hat to SVG.
Adobe today pre-released their XML-in-a-PDF technology, Mars, for Acrobat 8. Essentially, Mars as a technology is presently delivered as [...]
Vista RC1 OK on Parallels 1896.2 (and Acrobat 8)
Monday, September 18th, 2006Watching the Parallels web site, I noted that the engineers had posted some more info, and a later build. 1896.2 I don't know what the .2 means; probably that .1 wasn't quite right.
Waiting for a better video driver (to use up the 256Mb of the MacBook Pro, without resorting to Boot Camp)
Anyway:
Is Vista [...]
Watching the Language Wars
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Today, at least in the US, it is Programmer's Day.
Maybe it should be called "International Programming Language Peace Day". The level of advocacy for various programming languages reaches rhetorical heights last seen during the one of the not-so-successful 18th century revolutions.
When not speaking to humans, other programmers to reading the latest advocacy on their language [...]
Parallels 1884 Vista Quick Notes (and update)
Friday, September 8th, 2006Download the 21Mb update to Parallels (to build 1884)
Boot Windows XP to ensure all is OK before I install Vista. Windows XP "seems" to boot a little faster. Unable to quantify exactly how much.
Backup existing 15Gb Windows XP .hdd, just in case. Create a new 15Gb image to install Vista into.
Pararllels settings:
Install into the fresh [...]
FreeDOS and Parallels
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006File this into the why basket.
FreeDOS works with Parallels. So now for the full 1987-1992 retro-experience, the MacBook Pro can learn about HIMEM.SYS, FAT32 and other evil that Windows has shielded us from.
How to:
Download FreeDOS ISO image
With Parallels, create a new VM (virtual machine), Hard drive
Set the CD as the boot device, and select the [...]
Gartner Agrees with nickhodge.com
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Windows Vista the last of its kind: Windows will go virtual, Gartner agrees with my assessment that the future of Windows is componentised, virtualized and smaller.
Gartner expects a significant update to Vista in late 2008 or 2009 that will add virtualisation (in the form of a component called a hypervisor) and a service partition.
You read [...]
Virtually Emulating First Loves
Thursday, August 24th, 2006In an effort to re-ignite my first love whilst on my leave of absence - I've been looking for a good TRS-80 emulator to rekindle the flames of technical desire. Also over the last 4 weeks I've also had a small "side project" watching the goings on in the desktop virtualization space, especially on the [...]
Being the Forest, Forgetting the Trees
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006Microsoft is on the cusp of shipping a whole forest of new products. Vista, .Net 3.0, Office 2007 and *.live.com stuff than you can poke a branch/stick at. All of which presents Microsoft with some tall challenges. How does a single tree get noticed? How does the world find the saplings that are going to [...]
One Mac Head, Two Minds
Thursday, August 10th, 2006An excellent article from the New York Times: Weighing a Switch to a Mac. Interesting, as it goes through the two options: BootCamp or Parallels.
You don't need to leave your Windows-mind behind when switching. Now that I am disconnected from the Adobe-mind, I rarely use Windows applications. But then again, I've not really done [...]
