Tag: Misc

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Mar 11, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

After logging in, be sure to visit all the options under Configuration in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 26 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

Misc Community

Bad Apple Behaviors

Jan 14, 2009 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of my non-technical enjoyments in life is listening to the This American Life podcast, from Public Radio International. It isn’t always my political cup of tea but it is always entertaining. I was …

Misc

How fast is the VelociRaptor drive?

Nov 21, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

So I splurged recently and picked up one of the new Western Digital 300GB SATA VelociRaptor drives. I also happened to be in Las Vegas, and there was a Fry’s nearby. I think that was the cause, …

Misc Development

DreamSpark

Jul 3, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

Back in the 80s (way back!) Apple got a toe-hold in the PC market in part by engineering a high presence in colleges and high schools. The theory was that if you get a young person started on an Apple …

Misc Development

A Geeky Road Adventure

Apr 2, 2008 • 1 min read • David Starr

I am currently in Jacksonville, North Carolina to teach a 3 day Team System class to the U. S. Marine Corp. To get here, I took 3 planes today with the last one loaded up with Marines on their way to …

Misc

Who is a Product Owner?

Mar 28, 2008 • 2 min read • David Starr

Because of the decentralized control model of Agile software development methodologies, there is a living debate on the role of a Product Owner, particularly in Scrum which defines the term. Here are …

Misc Azure Boards

Books required for going back to school

Aug 30, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Ah yes, late August, time to go back to school - even for us adult geeks. Fortunately, David Starr has provided us an exhaustive list of must-read books, organized by developer, tester, project …

Misc Visual Studio ALM

NBusiness on CodePlex feels like a Ruby app

Aug 6, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

NBusiness is an Entity Definition Language focused on the creation of business entities. Basically, you use a construct called E# to build a code file, which is then ‘compiled’ into C#. …

Misc Tools

New Open Source Portal App in .NET - Umbraco

Aug 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Umbraco looks pretty amazing! It may not have the following of Dot Net Nuke, but it looks to be a lot more open to web standards. I’ve tried many times to really like DNN, but it just pains me …

Misc