Opera Web Browser for free!

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Sep 202005
 

Last month Opera gave away registration codes for free, now they’re removing the adds AND THE LICENSING FEE! Check it out here. Premium support is still something you pay for.
I like that they use the Bittorrent technology to distribute Opera (as an alternative to regular downloads!).

One feature I particularly like about Opera is the ability to take notes. You don’t need a seperate program, just select text from a webpage, and tell Opera to create a note of it. You will have the text in the note, and Opera will remember from what URL you got the text from.

 Posted by at 23:28

VB6 -> VB.NET

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Jun 282005
 

A couple of months ago, there was quite an uproar in the VB-community, since Microsoft wanted to defunct VB6. Of course to have developers move to VB.NET. Now they present these developers with a free e-book that covers just that: the migration from VB6 to VB.NET. You can download the individual chapters here. There is no link (yet?) for a all-in-one download.

 Posted by at 01:32

XBOX 360

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Jun 272005
 

I can’t help but wanting one, when I read this. I play less and less games, because it means I need to be upstairs. And it means I only have stereo, no surround whatsoever. Seperating gaming from developing also means this PC can have some of its harddrive space back 😉

 Posted by at 23:14

Why would you want to run asmx without IIS?

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Jun 232005
 

Why would you want to serve asmx (or any other .NET pages) without IIS? I’ll tell you why: because I don’t want to upgrade my OS everytime the webserver gets new features. Because I want to run IIS 6 on Windows XP (I would have probable paid for it, if I could). Because I don’t want a server-OS. Not only does that need to be licensed per seat, but all other software (antivirus etc) is more expensive too.
Instead, I switched to Apache. And via tricks and stuff I can now run .NET via Apache (Wiki), but of course only when I install things manually. No integration with VS.NET or anything else for that matter. But at least I did not have to buy a new server, and a new OS, several seats, new antivirus software, and what-did-I-forget, just to run IIS 6.

 Posted by at 10:22

Contest (for US residents only, of course)

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May 252005
 

Start something amazing. That’s the assignment of the contest. Tell a story about your passion, or something you devote a lot of time to for some reason. Or nominate a friend or colleague. Since this is a contest held by Microsoft (in association with National Geographic) your story should include something about their products. How you use them when doing the things you like so much, or how you used them to accomplish that dream you always had.
There are 5 categories to submit your entry to, so…good luck.

 Posted by at 08:53

Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 CTP

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May 252005
 

If you develop for PDA’s or other mobile devices, you will love this Emulator. It runs ARM instructions (not only x86) and it has full ActiveSync capabilities, so you can setup a real relationship between the emulator and your PC. Read more here.

 Posted by at 00:49
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