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Came across this: http://lifehacker.com/395589/windows-live-writer-tweaks-tips-and-updates v. handy if you're a Live Writer user HTH Doug
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I'm pleased to see the launch of a new blog from Microsoft's Environmental Sustainability group.
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I spend a lot of my day debugging other peoples' code, be it the code of my customers or code that Microsoft's developers have written. I also spend a little bit of my day writing and debugging my own code. I would say, on balance that I prefer debugging
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John Robbins, author of " Debugging Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Applications ", " Debugging Applications for Microsoft® .NET and Microsoft Windows® " and " Debugging Applications " has blogged about what has to be one of the worst taxi experiences you can imagine.
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I frequently find my self needing to look up the reference information for ASP.NET configuration settings. I find the fastest way to do this is to use a web search engine and include the words "asp.net schema" in my search terms, for example: That usually
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Here is your chance to nominate a colleague who you consider to be an "IT champion" - maybe even yourself ( :-) ) ! Microsoft UK are running a program to recognise IT champions . At the time of writing, nominations for the first round close in 15 hours.
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I had a day off yesterday and went with my wife, son and aunt to see Welford Park 's display of snowdrops. Very impressive and well worth a visit. Cheers Doug
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A non-technical post for a change. The Times Online has an article about " Britain's best kept secrets ". Makes you want the summer to arrive...
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My job role is "escalation engineer". You can hopefully get a flavour of what I do from reading my blog posts but a colleague of mine Nico came across this interesting 10 minute Jobcast by Jeff Dailey, one of my peers in Microsoft US. Cheers Doug
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Darren Strange, UK Office Product Manager, wrote an interesting post about why he blogs . I started blogging as a complementary aspect to the job that I do which is supporting Microsoft development technologies. I wasn't "tasked" with it by my management
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Daniel's post about his typing rate piqued my curiosity so I gave it a go. YOUR RESULTS ARE: Number of words typed: 155 Test duration: 3 min Speed: 51.9 words/min. (259 keystrokes/min.) Error penalty: 9 Accuracy: 94.2% It's interesting that of those who
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Tess told me about this. I think you can figure out what is going on even if, like me, you don't understand Swedish. I think I need to implement this too .
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[ update 20:43 27/4/7 - apologies to those reading via RSS if this is a duplicate, but I felt compelled to fix the typo pointed out by Mike as well as various other typos caused by writing a blog entry before the first coffee of the day!] I don't know.
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Tess " tagged me ". This seems to be a bit of New Year fun in the blogosphere – seems to be a bit like viral marketing of your friends blogs with a bit of personal disclosure thrown in. So, five things you probably don't know about me….let's see. My bank
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