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05.09.09How To: Expand a Virtual PC Disk with VhdResizer and DiskPart
Uncategorized (8)Question: What does "Dynamically expanding virtual hard disk" mean to you? For some reason, while setting up a development machine in Virtual PC, I had this thought that "dynamically expanding" meant that the disk would start out at a specified size, and expand as needed. However, it's the opposite. A "dynamically expanding" disk starts off small, and expands to the specified size. So needless to say, 10Gbs wasn't enough to install Visual Studio 2008 (90 day trial), SQL Express 2005 and 2008, plus the service packs and Windows' Updates. After doing a bit of sleuthing ("Googling"), I discovered how ...
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03.09.09What’s the difference between CONST and READONLY in .Net?
Uncategorized (9)Ever sit around talking to your co-workers about random things, when all of a sudden you ask "What's the difference between const and readonly in .Net?". If so, you are not alone. If not, well, you're just weird. A few weeks ago, I was talking to a developer that I work with, when I asked the exact same question. I remembered though, that when I was working on Poynt while at my last job, we kept getting warnings saying that we should either change our const to readonly, or vice versa. I can't remember exactly which one, or the ...
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11.29.08How Do You Name Your PCs?
Uncategorized (0)Last weekend I went out and picked myself up a refurbished HP DX5150 Small Form Factor PC, which I'm planning on turning into a little Media Center. The current PC that's connected to my TV will now become a network storage server (most likely using Windows Home server). And my main computer will stay as my main computer. At some of the places that I've worked, they've usually named their servers with letters to describe the location/city and functionality (production, development, mail, ...) of the computer, as well as give it a number to give it a uniqueness. One ...
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10.30.08Multiplied Media’s Poynt is a BlackBerry Developer Challenge Grand Prize Winner
Uncategorized (0)On October 21st, it was announced that Multiplied Media's (TSX:MMC) local search application "Poynt" (I previously reviewed the beta release) was one of three Best in Show Grand Prize winners in the Blackberry Partners Fund's Developer Challenge. For being a winner, each of the three companies will receive a $150,000 investment and will be entered into the "Jump Start" program. Along with Poynt, the other two winners are: - Strands Social Player: A music player that lets you discover new music, connect with people, and share your tastes with friends. It automatically shows cover art, provides artist and ...
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09.04.08This Day in History: September 2, 2008
Uncategorized (0)Do you know what today is? Yes, it's the day that Google finally released there much rumoured GBrowser browser, "Chrome". Today also marks the First Anniversary of CarlJ.ca. It only seems like yesterday that I was sitting at the office of my former employer on a Sunday afternoon when I wrote my first post, "Linux Surpasses Windows in PC Market Share", congradulating the whole collective of distros for finally surpassing Windows 98 in market share. Well actually, according to the stats, they were both tied at 1.34% (As of today, Windows 98 has slipped to 0.66% while Linux has ...
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06.14.08Multiplied Media launches beta of Poynt for the BlackBerry
Free, Uncategorized (2)On June 11 2008, Multiplied Media (Symbol: TSX-V:MMC) announced the release of the beta version of Poynt for the Blackberry handheld devices. For those that are unfamiliar with Poynt, it's a local search service currently for North America (agreements have been signed with t-info of Germany and Infobel which covers over 30 European countries) and is available on MSN (poynt@live.com) and on AIM (Poynt). Continue Reading...
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03.09.08Wow, that was a big dump
Uncategorized (0)Not sure if any records were broken or not, but boy did Old Man Winter ever take a huge dumping on us here in the snowbelt last night. Yesterday when I came home just before 5pm, there was just enough snow on my walk way and in front of my door for me to have to shovel off. At just before 9pm I wanted to head out to get some snacks for the UNC vs. Duke game, but when I went to open my screen door, I could only open it about a foot. I had to literally dig ...
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02.29.08I’m now Microsoft Certified …
Uncategorized (0)Earlier today I managed to pass my first Microsoft exam, #70-528 - MCTS Web-Based Client Development. Next up, I'm hoping to take advantage of Microsoft's second chance promotion, and write the Framework (#70-536) exam by mid April which combined, would give me the "MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications" certification. After that, I'm hoping to squeak one more in before the June 30th expiration date for the second chance, and either go for the "MCPD: Web Developer" certificate, or do the Windows application exam. It's going to be a long few months, but in the end my resume is going to look a ...
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02.07.08Windows Vista Error Message
Uncategorized (1)Here's a shot of an error message that Windows kept giving me this morning. Normally an error like this I would just ignore and carry on doing whatever it was that I was doing at the time. But this one was different. Vista would keep popping this one up whenever I tried to click on something, such as the Start menu, Taskbar (off topic, but it's weird that Windows Live Writer says that "Taskbar" is spelt wrong) or even the Desktop. Sorry for the crummy quality, but I couldn't do a Print Screen and open up my favourite graphics application, ...
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02.06.08What the @*#&% Were They Thinking?
Uncategorized (0)History is littered with deals or agreements (AOL + Time Warner, eBay + Skype, John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander[who?], Kobe Bryant for Vlade Divac ...) where one side clearly came out on top, while the other, thinking at the time it was a great deal, ends up regretting it. This week there looks to be another one to add to the list, one that I just can't ignore. Continue Reading...