September 2009 Entries
Ever hear the saying “death by a thousand tiny cuts”? The inverse might be “Love by a thousand tiny kisses”…. and that’s the best way I can describe Windows 7. There isn’t one thing that’s absolutely remarkable (except maybe the hibernate reliability), but there’s so many little things that make you smile a couple of times a day. It all adds up to a wonderful user experience. One of my favorites is the new taskbar. This thing is amazing… so easy to use. It’s simple enough for my mom to use without fear, but it’s sophisticated enough to meet...
Over the last six months, I’ve been working with a team of good folks building a pretty serious set of WCF based web services. These services were intended to be the next generation of products that will hopefully reinvent the systems that support a large percentage of our business. It’s been a fun ride and I’ve definitely learned WCF inside and out. Part of this effort involved building out a semi-customer facing client application. We needed a harness to drive development of our service-oriented features as well as something that showcased the platform independence of the services we were building. ...
From time to time, my status bar disappears. I used to believe this was due to a botched install or add-in. I recently upgraded to Team System Test Edition, and my status bar again disappeared. For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out a time to do a full reinstall. Today, I discovered this is a setting in Visual Studio (duh). So, if you see this: and you can’t figure out how to get your status bar back, go to Tools –> Options –> Environment –> General section and check the “Show status...