September 2009 - Posts

Where is SoCalDevGal? – SoCal Developer Events for Oct 2009
28 September 09 06:22 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

By popular demand I am attempting to aggregate SoCal Developer events on a monthly basis.  For October 2009 as follows below. I’ll be happy to add any developer events I may have missed, just send me mail via my blog. Week 1 (Sept 27 – Oct 3) Mon, Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Technical Conference, Windows 7

SoCalDevGal looks at BitLocker for USB drives in Windows 7
21 September 09 12:42 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

I’ve wanted to play around with this feature (also called ‘BitLocker-To-Go’ ), but hadn’t had time until today.  I’ll recap what I’ve found.  First, and probably most important, is that BitLocker is only available as part of Windows 7 Ultimate Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal pushes her little NetBook – what can it do for developers?
14 September 09 01:49 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

Regular readers will note that I recently purchased an inexpensive NetBook and upgraded the OS from XP to Windows 7 Home (blog detail here ). First I tested my NetBook out for plain old web browsing.  It worked just fine with one exception – some Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal works with virtualization in Windows 7
13 September 09 07:37 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

I am working on setting up my first VPC in Windows 7 and I found a couple of things had changed from Vista and wanted to share here.  I realize that for application virtualization, ITPros would most often be using Windows 2008 Server, however, developers Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

HTC TouchPro 2 – a beautiful phone
09 September 09 07:42 AM | llangit | 6 Comments   

The Windows Mobile team (thanks Loke!) sent me the new HTC Touch Pro 2 phone today– I am in heaven setting it up.  This is, by far, the most beautiful phone I’ve ever used.  I’ll just post the pictures from HTC’s website.  The touch capability Read More...

Filed under: Fun

SoCalDevGal works with a NetBook – moving from XP to Windows 7 via a USB key
08 September 09 05:04 AM | llangit | 2 Comments   

Today I picked up a HP Mini 110 – 1025Dx which had XP installed on it.  I was looking for a cheap, light laptop.  I got it for $ 329 at BestBuy. I wanted to go through the process of moving from XP to Windows 7 via a USB boot and to document Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7

DigiGirlz camp LA for 2009
02 September 09 11:35 PM | llangit | 3 Comments   

We hosted our first-ever DigiGirlz hi-tech camp for high-school aged girls at New Horizons, Culver City , (LA) CA last week (We have hosted previous events in SoCal in Irvine, CA  and in San Diego, CA).  DigiGirlz is a global program of annual, Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Helping

SoCalDevGal interview Bart de Smet and Mwansa Lumpa at TechEd Africa 2009
01 September 09 04:36 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Enjoy - (can you tell I was a bit jet lagged?) first Bart on his work with .NET 4.0 Framework then Mwansa on his work developing SmartCare in Zambia Read More...

Filed under: TechEd, Technical Conference, Travel