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April 2007 - Posts

Dell moves to offer XP again after slow Vista uptake

As reported on Information Week , Dell has moved to offer Windows XP as an option again due the the slow uptake of Vista. I think this is great, because there are still a lot of people who are quite happy on Windows XP. There's no need to upgrade if there's Read More...
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 8:05 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

Recursive Common Table Expressions (CTEs) in SQL Server 2005

One of the new features in SQL Server 2005 is Common Table Expressions or CTEs. These allow for a wide variety of queries that are very difficult to achieve in previous version of SQL Server. However it is the addition of recursive CTEs that really puts Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 4:20 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Adding code snippets to your blog post

These days I'm using Windows Live Writer to write my blog posts. This has greatly reduced the amount of time it takes to write a post. However when it comes to writing posts that contain code snippets there is still some pain involved. However now you Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:07 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

expression web and blend make it into msdn

Expression Web and Blend have been added to MSDN Premium. Check out Scott Guthrie's post about it. The original post is here . This is great news for MSDN Subscribers who will now be able to work better with designers to make great WPF and WPF/E applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:02 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

VPC 2007 ON VISTA

VPC 2007 went live last month. You can download it directly from here (for free). Note that VPC 2007 is not supported on Windows Vista Home Basic. Alternatively there is also VMWare Player and VMWare Converter (both free). VMWare Player runs both VMWare Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:46 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments