Best of PDC09 Copenhagen – Scott Guthrie
Attended a one day conference in Copenhagen today. Great presentations of VS2010, .NET 4.0, MVC 2.0 and Silverlight 4 by...
TechEd Europe 2009 – Berlin
Attended TechEd Europe in Berlin. Good conference – but a bit thin on developer stuff compared to earlier years (in...
In Berlin - 20 years since the wall fell
I’m in Berlin (at Microsoft’s TechEd conference) and joined the “mauerfall” party monday night at the Brandenburg Gate....
JAOO 2009
Back from my first time at the JAOO conference in Århus (Denmark). Great conference – a bit heavy on Java for a .NET...
Windows 7 on Sony Vaio - Brightness / Sleep problem
I have been running Windows 7 RTM on my Vaio (VGN-Z21WN) since it was released on MSDN, and everything has been working...
Super FDisk to the rescue
Having heard so many good things about SSDs (solid state disks), a few months I decided to try one out on my laptop – a...
New fiber Internet connection and new server
We've always wanted to host our Internet servers from our own office. Besides from providing more control, security, and...
.NET HttpListener Class - Weak documentation on Prefix formats
Just thought I'd share this if someone else encounters the same problems I did trying to use this class. The documentation...
intoDNS.com - a DNSreport.com alternative
DNSreport.com is a great tool for quickly analyzing a domain name registration and setup. I have personally used it for...
Smart Paster Add-In for VS2008
Just noticed that my favorite add-in for VS2005, Smart Paster by Alex Papadimoulis, is now also available for VS2008. With...
Microsoft's Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLPS) - Not for 64 bit
I am attending Microsoft's TechEd Developer conference in Barcelona this week (and having a great time). One of the more...
Building Simple DNS Plus v. 5
We are just about ready to release the very first beta version of Simple DNS Plus v. 5.0. That means that a lot of...
A smarter boot file for Simple DNS Plus v. 5
Several new features in Simple DNS Plus v. 5 require a new way to store the DNS zone list on disk. Previous versions use a...
Evaluating lightweight database systems
I spent the past few days evaluating different embedded database system for possible use in the upcoming Simple DNS Plus...
Documenting and packaging the new Simple DNS Plus API
We will be releasing a new Simple DNS Plus API for .NET and COM this coming week - watch our company blog/RSS for the...
How to connect to the IPv6 Internet?
All indications are that the Internet will move to IPv6 in a not so distant future. All major operating systems now...