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Month: August, 2008
Testing Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 – first page to fail…
Last night, I installed the IE8 beta 2 that was released some days ago. I’ve read some reports of different pages / sites that looks buggy in IE8, but I hadn’t experienced any problems before today – when I published a new blog post, and looked at the final result.
If anyone could give me a [...]
The tale of the disappearing VPN connection
Today, I was about to VPN into my company’s network, to connect to Exchange among other things.
Ok, Windows Vista Start Button – Connect To – … what? Where’s my VPN connection?
I tried the easy solution, creating a new connection and tried to fire it up. Bam! Instantly I was told that connection failed, and the [...]
Upcoming presentations
I currently review and refine some ideas I have for the fall season. At the moment, I think it will materialize into at least three possible sessions:
Windows Communication Foundation Extensibility deep-dive.
Programming the Live Mesh (I just have to get a hand on the API-pieces and learn it first )
Creating Windows Vista SideShow gadgets [...]
Microsoft PDC '08 & Los Angeles; here I come!
Today, August 15th, is the last day you get a discount when you sign up for the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008, held in Los Angeles, CA.
I have not been sure if I was going to make it to the PDC this year, giving that I’ve just started in a new company and I didn’t [...]
The press release from Dell I've been waiting for
At last; a press release from Dell released today that they’ve announced the E-series line of products – I can’t for the Latitud E6500 to appear in the Norwegian webshop so I can configure & order it
Read the press release here.
Edit (some time later): Seems that it is allready available in the web [...]
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 released!
At last – It was pretty obvious with the SP1 dependency in SQL Server 2008 RTM that was released last week. The SP1 will definitely be on my TODO list for tomorrow.
Get it here.
Reinstalling Windows Vista
I used some of my weekend to reinstall Windows Vista on my AOpen SFF computer. The previous installation was from November 2006. I have passed the “Best before” date a long time ago, so I’m really looking forward to get all the bits, pieces & necessities installed.
When Dell hopefully releases the E-series this month, I [...]