July 2006 - Posts

• TMobiles MDA - Fit The Second

  Well.. What can I say. I am still not disillusioned with the device. What is it I hear you say? I have just been using it for two days? That's true. We'll see how it goes.. Installed a gadzillion things on it. So far, so good. Way more stable than my Read More... Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:30 AM by Shahar | 1 Comments Filed under: Geekdom

• 64bit confusion

  (Whoa. This has become a rant... I mean it about 86% jokingly, so read accordingly) For the longest time there was the x86 (that's after we were able to rip everything Win16 from this world). And it was good. For the 3 people who don't know, x86 is due Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:23 PM by Shahar | 0 Comments

• TMobiles MDA - Fit the First

  I finally did it and bought an MDA from TMobile. I have had the HP Ipaq 6315 for almost two years now. If you are not keeping track, the 6315 has got to be one of the worst devices to ever come out. Having passed minimal to no QA, the device came out Read More... Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 9:44 PM by Shahar | 1 Comments Filed under: Geekdom

• Thought of the day: AMD buying ATI for $5.4 billion

  Does this mean AMDs chipset drivers will now consist of 130 DLLs that don't know how to work well together? Linkage Read More... Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 9:48 AM by Shahar | 1 Comments

• Careful.. eBay phishing scam

  Just got an email from "eBay".. Email body says: <<<<<<< QUOTE >>>>>>>>> Dear eBay User , During our regular update and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your Read More... Posted Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:41 PM by Shahar | 5 Comments

• Search engines do work.

  I recently posted about the C++/CLI equivalent keyword for the C# const. Reason for the post was that when I searched for it, I couldn't find it easily so I thought I would save a bit of time for others. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%22C%2B%2B%2FCLI%22+const+c%23 Read More... Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:08 PM by Shahar | 0 Comments

• Array formula bug on B2 version of Excel Services.

  A bug relating to array formulas in Excel Services, B2. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:24 PM by Shahar | 1 Comments Filed under: Excel Services

• Words I hate

  Blogosphere* (I actually hate the word "blog" too, but that's kind of hypocritic what with me having one). Web 2.0 Mash-up Most hated word in recent months: Backronym * Thanks Alexbarn Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:05 PM by Shahar | 4 Comments

• Abridged version of "Big Lebowski"

  *** Viewer discretion advised -- Very Foul language *** (( I am not kidding. If you are offended by the F word, PLEASE do not open this link )) Big Lebowski Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:54 PM by Shahar | 3 Comments

• VSCmdShell not mature enough yet for usage, I believe

  I posted about the new VSCmdShell power toy. After playing with it a bit, I believe it is still not really mature enough for general usage - too many crashes of DevEnv. Still a kick-arse app. Probably be fixed soon. Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 3:59 PM by Shahar | 2 Comments

• Saw "A scanner darkly"..

  Holy crap! This has got to be the most boring movie I have seen in years. I actually quite enjoyed the animation style. The acting was decent and even good in some cases. But the movie.. The plot.. The dialogs.. They were so boring.. So monotonous. So Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 12:49 AM by Shahar | 7 Comments

• Nice little power toy for VS2005 - Command Shell in the IDE

  http://blogs.msdn.com/bertan/archive/2006/07/15/666446.aspx Read More... Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:09 PM by Shahar | 6 Comments Filed under: Development Related

• C++/CLI equivalent of the C# const keyword

  Writing this just post because searching the string "C++/CLI" const equivalent on a search engine did not find what I was looking for. The answer is, by the way, "literal" [Guid(MyClass::Guid)] ref class MyClass { public: literal String^ Guid = "6C46D25A-BB4C-4bf9-8B26-F78D98C4BC18"; Read More... Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:18 AM by Shahar | 3 Comments Filed under: Development

• How to debug UDFs

  How to find the process ID that belongs to Excel Services for debugging UDFs. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:30 AM by Shahar | 10 Comments Filed under: Development Related, Excel Services

• Exclusive! Name of the next-next generation chip from Intel!

  Intel will announce their new chip on the 27th. The name of the new chip: <drum-roll> Core 2 Duo What will be the name of the one after that? Core 2 Duo II? Or maybe 2 Core 2 Duo... Edit: Somebody who lives in a glass house should not throw stones. Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:35 PM by Shahar | 1 Comments

• How to update UDF assemblies during development

  HOWTO: Updating UDF assemblies on disk during development Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:30 AM by Shahar | 1 Comments Filed under: Development Related, Excel Services