Samling av billige og gode utenlandske Webshop’per

Samling av billige og gode utenlandske Webshop’per - Forum - Hardware.no:

Dette er en samling av gode og rimelige Webshopper! Post deres forslag og erfaringer her!

Norwegian forum post with links to good/cool foreign webshops.

iRotate

EnTech Taiwan | Utilities | iRotate:

Fast screen rotation without the fuss

Disable UAC Prompt for a Single Application

Disable UAC Prompt for a Single Application - x(perts)64:

describes how to disable the User Account Control (UAC) prompt for a specific application, without disabling it for the machine as a whole. Now THAT’s useful. There’s no way I’m ever going to run with UAC off. But there are definitely a couple of applications where I find the UAC prompt really annoying, since I use them pretty often.

Cool!

Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (5 Parts)

Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 1) - Create Team Project - Willy-Peter Schaub’s Cave of Chamomile Simplicity:

This is the start of a mini series during which I will review the Rosario CTP Mini-Stories, viewing it from our production perspective and highlighting exciting, missing and/or troubling features. So let’s rock and roll with the latest and greatest of Team Foundation Server

Ahh, the next version of TFS! Cool! Have a look at part 5; no more Xml for you!

Beginning Continuous Improvement, A Case Study

Beginning Continuous Improvement, A Case Study - Sergio Pereira:

There had to be a better way. So, I started combing the web, hoping to find people that solved issues like mine. Googling phrases like ?extensibility?, ?webforms pain?, and ?easy asp.net deployment?.

Pretty cool story about one develops road to a better dev process. I submitted my own story, perhaps they’ll publish it in the coming weeks. If not then I’ll publish it my self.

Team Foundation Server File Sync Service

TFS File Sync - Home:

This solution was developed to address the need to automatically propagate specific files in the Team Foundation Server version control to a predefined path.

Could be useful, in my old job we could have made use of this to make sure our shared binaries/task/etc. was always up to date. Instead we chose to use xcopy…

The SSD Power Consumption Hoax

The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs Don?t Improve Your Notebook Battery Runtime ? they Reduce It - Tom’s Hardware:

Flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) are considered to be the future of performance hard drives, and everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. We are no exception, as we have been publishing many articles on flash-based SSDs during the last few months, emphasizing the performance gains and the potential power savings brought by flash memory. And there is nothing wrong with this, since SLC flash SSDs easily outperform conventional hard drives today (SLC = single level cell). However, we have discovered that the power savings aren?t there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD.

Pretty interesting stuff. But perhaps when the fault tolerance issues have been resolved more R&D money will be spent on imrpoving the energy efficiency? I sure hope so.

How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days

How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days - Bill Gates - working for Microsoft:

How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days

Joel Spolsky talking about Big Bill leaving Microsoft.

vXCOPY

vXCopy - Installation:

vXCopy- multi-threaded Files & Folders Copy Tool with Resume support

Pretty cool tool. I use TeraCopy now, but that?s not good enough when dealing with thousands of files. I wonder if this is any better?

Automating virtual machines

In my last job (Synergi Solutions AS) we talked a bit about creating virtual machines as output of our nightly/release builds, but never got around to actually doing it. I just found a link to somebody who’s actually done it; http://tranxcoder.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/using-the-vixcom-library/

Pretty cool!