Today I was informed that I have received a Microsoft MVP award for Visual Studio – Solutions Architect. You can check out my profile on the MVP site here. I would like to thank everyone, my wife and children especially, for all the support and encouragement over the years. A special thanks to my fellow plumbers (John Bristowe, […]
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As you can probably tell from previous blog entries and presentations, I’ve been a big fan of Sysinternals tools for a long time. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell wrote some of the best Windows tools in existence, free or otherwise. Process Explorer kicks Task Manager’s proverbial butt. Regmon and Filemon are invaluable debugging aids (and […]
After a long hiatus, Richard Lander is back. Richard is a PM on the CLR team at Microsoft responsible for the loader and versioning. He’s also a Cannuck working in Redmond. I’ve had the distinct pleasure of chatting with him on a number of occassions. Due to moving, a second child, and site-hosting changes, his […]
People have been hypothesizing about this moment for years. The rumours became even more heightened with the hiring/purchase of Ray Ozzie. Bill Gates’ non-appearance at the keynote for TechEd, which I highlighted here, was another hint. Well, the day has come. Bill Gates has announced that he is transitioning away from his daily duties at […]
Kenny Kerr has updated Window Clippings, which I mentioned here, with some cool new features including: Capturing the PrtScn key to initiate clippings Saving images in the TIFF format Prompt for storage location (rather than always dropping it in the same location) Windows Vista support You can download x86 or x64 versions, as appropriate, from here. Awesome […]
Consolas is a new mono-spaced font being introduced with Vista. John, Scott, and others have been raving about it for months. It’s designed to be a comfortable font for programming and is a huge leap forward from Courier. (Personally I’ve been using Lucida Console for years as it’s easier on the eyes than Courier. Consolas […]
Time to let the proverbial cat out of the bag. It’s probably the worst kept secret this side of the Rockies, but I’ve gone independent. JamesKovacs.com Consulting Inc. is open and ready for business. If you’re looking for assistance with .NET development, architecture, agile techniques, or object-oriented analysis and design, email me at jkovacs@post.harvard.edu and I would […]
Actually you can get virtualization completely free these days. From VMWare, we have VMWare Player, which is based on VMWare Workstation, and VMWare Server, which is based on VMWare GSX Server. Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now free. Microsoft is even supporting Linux with Virtual Server, including virtual machine additions […]
I double-checked that this wasn’t released on April 1st, but Apple will be supporting a dual-boot configuration for Intel-based Macs that let’s you chose between Mac OSX and Windows XP SP2. The code name is Boot Camp and it’s currently in public beta. You need to own your own copy of Windows, but Boot Camp […]
We’ve just released Episode 3: Powered by Infinite Improbability Drive. So that we can get you, our loyal listeners, the episodes more quickly, we’ll be hosting on both MSDN Canada Community Radio as well as on the Plumbers @ Work site. You can find the show notes here, photos here, and podcast here. It will be […]
