JohnBs personal blog

The Microsoft project ‘Atlas’ - akin to Adobe Spry has received it’s final naming. Name spaces will also be changed from atlas: to asp: and will be integrated into the next release of Visual Studio. Read more at Scott Guthrie’s blog.

Just in case you don’t subscribe to various Microsoft blogs and didn’t get to attend in person, here’s a post on Marc Schweigerts blog - (he’s a Microsoft Developer Evangalist) talking about his presentation on Atlas at CFunited - he’s posted his presentation and demo code along with a link to Brad Adams’ prestantion/demo code which includes a CF/Atlas example - which i can’t get to work just yet.

Microsoft is set to supply ECU (Engine Control Units) from 2008 as part of the FIA’s ‘cost saving’ approach….should make things interesting!

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Once you’re accustomed to Intellisense/Tag Insight, whether it be in Visual Studio, Dreamweaver or Eclipse then when you use a product without it then you usually miss it. I’ve been building a series of Enterprise applications using massive numbers of Stored Procedures and tools like Query Analyser, Enterprise Manager and even Visual Studio have never included any intellisense.

A tool I stumbled across from Red-Gate offers just this. It sits down in the system tray and fires up after you press ctrl+space or after a . in a table/view/alias.

Oh, and the best thing - did i mention it was free?

If you’ve been on the hunt for a web based SQL Enterprise Manager then give this one a try - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vwg-ent-man - You’ll need .NET 2 installed but it’s an almost exact duplication of the SQL Enterprise MMC console except in a web app!

In fact, it looks like you can even admin MySQL, Oracle etc through it too!

If you want to get your hands on the public BETA2 release of MS Vista you need to head over to:

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm

Site is busy at the minute but try again later.

Interesting tour of the ‘Apple’ lab at Microsoft - I particularly like the bank of 150 mac minis!

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Apple have just annouced BootCamp - dual booting Mac OS and XP .

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I particularly liked this line;

MySpace.com’s average server CPU utilization went from 85% to 27% after moving (from another technology) to ASP.NET 2.0

This blog entry from one of the IE product managers caught my eye regarding the Windows RSS platform - it’s aim is to solve the problem many of us are likely to have run into, sharing feed subscriptions between multiple applications by creating a ‘Common Feed List’…interesting idea!