Was thinking today of all of the portal options avaiable and decided that there were too many to remember (rule of 7), so I thought I'd enumerate them, with hyperlinks, for future recall.
Rainbow …
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MSI Installs without registering with Add/Remove Programs (ARP)
I had a student ask how to do this, because they have problems with their users dabbling with Control Panel's ARP applet. I suggested a tighter group policy, but went on to research the MSI …
Read more →Google Email (GMail) having an effect on Yahoo
Looks like Yahoo is supersizing their free email capabilities to 100mb and freeing up many previously inactive addresses in a preemptive strike.
Ain't competition great?
BTW - It looks like 100s, …
Read more →Had a student ask me about this one today, so I investigated further. It seems that this is the design pattern which keeps a list of objects (or records) affected by a business transaction and …
Read more →Wanted to list a few good resources here for this technology:
Chris Sells' article on command line arguments
Launching No-Touch Deployment Applications with Command Line Arguments
Chris Sell's …
Read more →Delayed Signing of an Assembly
I've known that this process exists, and why to use it, but this article by Craig Wills walks you through it in a very straightforward manor.
Read more →So as some of you know, I'm traveling overseas -- in Serbia right now, teaching a .NET architecture class for Microsoft.
So I wanted to call home, and didn't want to pay the 403 Yugoslavia Dinars/1st …
Read more →Bletchley Park open to the public
Once the most secret place in Britain, Bletchley Park is now giving the public a first look into the hut where math genius Alan Turing worked on cracking the Nazi's Enigma codes. I would love to visit …
Read more →Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly validate source of redirected frame
Just heard about this latest exploit from US-Cert
This caught my attention, because I sometimes use frames and redirection. Yikes!
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