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January 2007 - Posts

Upgrading to Community Server 2.0 SP2 and ASP.NET 2.0

I've just upgraded to Community Server 2.1 with SP2. The main reason why I didn't do this earlier is because of fear of ruining the database. As you can see bellow it is not a one click upgrade. First I had to find out which version I was running as I Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:27 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

Ubuntu, Skype, Mono and C#

Ubuntu has a great user interface. There's a version of Skype for linux which installed seamlessly. See below But that's not all. Ubuntu comes with Firefox pre-installed. When I upgraded to Edgy Eft (see previous post) it automatically upgraded to Firefox Read More...
Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 1:06 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Blogging from Ubuntu Edgy Eft

This is my first post from my new Ubuntu Edgy Eft Linux box (6.10)! A few months ago I ordered a free CD of Ubuntu Drapper Drake (6.06) which comes with 3 years of support from Cannonical . The CD's shipped (free) in about 4-6 weeks but it was only until Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:04 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Test Driven Development in Microsoft.NET

I have just finished reading Test Driven Development in Microsoft.NET by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov (Blog?). If you are interested in Test Driven Development (TDD) then this is a great book to read. Before I started reading it I had the Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:50 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

Good User Interface Design

What makes a good user interface? Why is a good user interface important? These are some of the questions that I've been asking myself for a while now. This topic came up again today while I was watching an Arcast Video on Arcast TV . In this video Ron Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:26 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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