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October 2007 - Posts

Why you should switch to Opera

Here are just a few of the reasons why you should switch to Opera for your web browsing (Stick with Firefox for developing). Opera is by far the best browser because it has: Speed dial Superior download manager (I downloaded Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 5:19 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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SmartEdit: Master the column

So many times I have been shocked by the thoughtless lack of imagination in the computer world. On of them is clipboard . However the column must be in the top 10. Is text editing still an unsolved problem? Here's the problem: You get a bunch of data Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 3:18 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Facebook: Everyone can join?

I thought I may as well check out what the fuss is about Facebook. So I head over to the home page and the first thing I see is this message: Ok. that's fine. They are open minded. However I decided to venture into the forbidden terms and conditions page Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 20, 2007 8:28 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

What am I installing? .NET 3.5? .NET 2.0 SP1? Both!

Many people have been trying out .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. What you probably don't know about it is that it comes with .NET 2.0 SP1 Beta (2 I assume). This means that if you want to run Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 on the same machine you Read More...
Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 3:24 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments

.NET Source Code Release

Once again MS throw a curved ball. I truly never thought this would happen. Check out the interview on Hanselminutes : Technorati tags: .NET , Source Code , .NET 3.5 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 6:19 PM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments