If you’re like me, you might have more than one installation of Visual Studio floating around, which can make the process of applying updates a bit tedious. With the release of Visual Studio Update 3 [description], we have another large (potentially ~2GB) set of updates to apply. Now, you might […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Hi All. For those readers whom are Sydney based, there’s a free seminar on the upcoming changes to Australia’s privacy laws which come into effect next March. The free seminar is being held in the Sydney city next month, looks like it could be worth checking out. If you attend […]
Over the past week, I’ve been attempting to get around to some cyber-housecleaning. As you may know from previous articles, I have a networked-attached storage (NAS) storage device by manufacturer Thecus which has 5x 2 TB drives configured in RAID-5 array. I’m always outage/data-loss conscious, so I implement a somewhat […]
This is a quick tip for those running Windows 8 who encounter this occasional problem where the Windows Explorer doesn’t display image thumbnails. Now, I’m going to assume that you’ve already checked the Explorer settings, and so on. This fixes a condition where the thumbnails appear very briefly (they flicker […]
Following on from my previous article about Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, I’m now moving on to Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’ve installed on the same VM which now hosts Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, selecting only a small subset of the available options. I’m mainly interested in Web Development, […]
Recently, Microsoft released a preview version of their next version of their team development suite, known as Team Foundation Server (TFS). Long time readers of Sanders Technology will know that I’ve a long history with TFS, and I’m genuinely a fan of the platform. Team Foundation Server 2013 breaks from […]
Here’s a bit of a look at some articles I’ve been reading lately. Why mobile web apps are slow – http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/ This is a really detailed look at the benchmark performances of JavaScript on mobile devices and, in particular, mobile applications. Be warned, it’s a very long but worthwhile read. […]
Hi All, If you have any interest at all in your rights to privacy and you happen to live in Australia, I strongly urge you to consider participating in the below event being organised by Electronic Frontiers Australia. There are some significant threats to our basic rights and without action, […]
Today we’re taking a look at the very recently released – and some would say highly anticipated – preview of the upcoming upgrade for Windows 8, creatively known as Windows 8.1 (Preview). This will be a two (or possibly three) part entry, starting naturally with the installation experience. From MSDN, […]
Introduction We’re now looking at Hybrid BizTalk/Azure design opportunities. Starting off, a review of service bus messaging options: Service Bus Messaging Queues Topics, and, Subscriptions Queues are per standard queuing theory, message on – message off (FIFO). Topics are a like a digest of messages distributed, and subscriptions are a […]
Introducing BizTalk 2013’s support for RESTful Services Generally used for communicating with the cloud. Switches away from XML in favour of JSON which has a smaller footprint. XML is still used for traditional B2B scenarios, especially for well defined interfaces. REST is a better option for expensive, narrow band connections […]
Today, I’m at a full day of hands-on BizTalk training from the CGI office in Canberra. As usual, I’ll be live blogging where possible. We’ll be covering off BizTalk 2013, BizTalk on Azure and BizTalk Services. What’s New in BizTalk 2013? Platform Support Supported by Visual Studio 2012 Better standards […]
This weekend, we’re going to be hosting “BizTalk” Bill Chesnut here in the nation’s capital for a day exploring the latest around BizTalk 2013. You’ll be able to read about the experience here on Sanders Technology. The day is sponsored by CGI Australia, and I hope to be live blogging […]
Now that it has been launched, we can bid farewell to some of the speculation around what Microsoft’s next generation games console will bring to the table – or can we? As a fan who lined up at midnight outside the Sydney Myer store on launch night of the original […]
In the past few months, the folks at DZone put a call out to their very talented and knowledgeable MVPs to volunteer to develop a comprehensive guide to current Cloud computing options. Today, I’m happy to write that the FREE guide is now available from DZone.com. Honestly, researching the right […]