The Curious Engineer

Tim Anderson's IT Writing

2006–2008

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December 2008

  1. Amazon MP3 store is much cheaper than Apple iTunes
  2. Windows Azure: since PDC, how is it going?
  3. BBC iPlayer AIR app brings downloads to Mac and Linux
  4. Vista’s mysterious compatibility settings: what do they do?
  5. First steps with Adobe Alchemy: good news and bad
  6. Former eBay scientist complains of “Dilbertian compromises”
  7. Top ten sites where developers hang out
  8. Why Audio Matters: Greg Calbi and others on “this age of bad sound”
  9. Microsoft’s three ways to store stuff online
  10. BBC looking at OpenID for iPlayer social network
  11. First steps with offline Silverlight and Live Framework
  12. JavaFX warns against itself on Macs
  13. Adobe’s disappointing results, headcount reduction plans
  14. JavaFX code runs at the speed of Java
  15. Sun’s JavaFX is launched: another go at applets
  16. Adobe engineer: we gotta beat Silverlight
  17. Why it’s hard to compete with Apple in mobile app development and deployment
  18. Amethyst from SapphireSteel: Develop Flex in Visual Studio, an alternative to Tofino

November 2008

  1. Embarcadero RAD Studio 2009 is done
  2. From the archives: Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie on ASP+
  3. Service triggers: an attempt to reduce bloat in Windows 7
  4. Live at Kilburn a must for Who fans – but for the Coliseum concert, not Kilburn
  5. What’s new in Adobe’s Flash Platform?
  6. Google search wiki: user reviews for web sites
  7. eBay reinvents English language, punishes good sellers
  8. Microsoft plans free anti-malware
  9. Adobe Alchemy – compile C/C++ to ActionScript
  10. Develop for Adobe Flex in Microsoft Visual Studio – or maybe not
  11. Is easy concurrency the road to hell?
  12. Sun’s financial problems – what comes next?
  13. OpenOffice to become adware?
  14. Reasons to love Linux #1: package management
  15. Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice.org in UK education
  16. Sun distributing Microsoft toolbar, Google drops Star Office from its Pack
  17. Run a VM on your mobile phone
  18. Windows is an adventure game
  19. Code for Mac Cocoa in Visual Studio – surprised to see this?
  20. Death of Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework good for vendors, bad for customers
  21. Anti-virus failure leaves XP broken, DNS hijacked, user frustrated
  22. Microsoft’s new .NET logo
  23. In which I ask Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce.com, if his platform is a lock-in
  24. Salesforce.com linking with Facebook, Amazon

October 2008

  1. A painful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
  2. WordPad in Windows 7 supports Open XML, OpenDocument
  3. Windows 7 media: AAC yes, FLAC no
  4. Windows 7 unveiled; hands on report
  5. C# 4.0 goes dynamic
  6. Hello Windows Azure
  7. PDC 2008: Microsoft attempts to remake its image
  8. UK job stats show Java decline
  9. Amazon’s cloud services growing up, sending out spam
  10. Mobile phone wastage
  11. Tell me what’s wrong with Microsoft’s Team System
  12. When will PHP Developer Tools be mainstream at Eclipse?
  13. SQLite and Delphi 2009
  14. A day in San Francisco
  15. HP laptop go-slow caused by power supply
  16. Losing your religion: how to survive the tech downturn
  17. Flash Marches On: We are upgrading the Web, says Adobe
  18. BBC adopting Adobe AIR for platform-neutral iPlayer downloads
  19. Silverlight on Linux: Moonlight or moonshine?
  20. Silverlight 2.0 is released, Eclipse tools for Silverlight announced
  21. Future of Web Applications wrap-up: check out the Open Stack
  22. Amazon fails to address interoperability concerns; Flexiscale plans cloud platform
  23. Sun’s Tim Bray declares end of Enterprise Software
  24. Future of Web Apps 2008 Day One: Web is DVD, desktop VHS
  25. Future of Web Apps London
  26. Vista even thinks Control Panel is photos
  27. Recovering data from a failed hard drive with ZAR
  28. Prism: official Delphi language comes to Visual Studio
  29. Google Chrome usage one month on
  30. Google App Engine 25% ready for prime time
  31. Moving Vista to a new hard drive
  32. What’s new in .NET Framework 4.0?
  33. Microsoft’s cloud platform, multi-touch Windows 7: mining the PDC schedule
  34. Microsoft’s open source breakthrough
  35. Future of Web Apps London next week
  36. Windows comes to Amazon’s cloud
  37. Adobe Media Player adding to Windows bloat

September 2008

  1. Are you willing to buy your DVDs again?
  2. Internet Explorer no longer the de facto Web standard
  3. Google, Adobe, Mozilla: Open source war of words is all about owning the platform
  4. Fixing slow Windows Vista: yet again, it’s a third-party problem
  5. Making the cloud reliable
  6. More OOXML than ODF on the Internet, according to Google
  7. WordPress company acquiring IntenseDebate, makes a blog into a forum
  8. First Look at Adobe Creative Suite 4
  9. Google’s shoddy EULA
  10. What I want from a mobile phone running Google’s Android
  11. Running Oracle on Amazon’s cloud
  12. Designers, Designers, Designers
  13. Adobe AIR runs on Linux
  14. slotMusic: you say hello, I say goodbye
  15. The new power in computing: design-centric development
  16. Windows 7 screenshots hit the web
  17. Microsoft’s design crisis: Interview from Remix Brighton
  18. A few notes on ASP.NET MVC
  19. Bill Buxton at Remix Brighton
  20. Silverlight: 1.5 million installations per day, says Microsoft
  21. Microsoft Remix in the UK
  22. Zend PHP Framework adds support for Adobe Flex, AMF
  23. Google’s plans for Gears
  24. Why Google doesn’t use Flash (much)
  25. Actual Android device spotted at Google Developer Day London
  26. A smile at Google Developer Day London
  27. Sophos video about hacked BusinessWeek site
  28. Google Chrome for Mac and Linux will be a long while coming
  29. Streaming media to a PSP
  30. Modelling: Can Microsoft succeed where others have failed?
  31. Developers: will you or have you signed for ribbon rights?
  32. Microsoft makes up with the OMG
  33. Doubling performance with Silverlight multithreading
  34. H.264, AAC comes to Silverlight. Game over for VC-1?
  35. Defining cloud computing
  36. Microsoft Oslo: a tool, a language, a repository
  37. Streaming FLAC from Linux to a PlayStation 3
  38. Adobe’s Genesis: enterprise mashups wrapped in AIR
  39. What does not a valid win32 application mean? Say, with Chrome setup?
  40. What happens to the browser market when Google plays the OEM card?
  41. Building Chromium
  42. Flash and Silverlight are the Chrome losers, says Zoho boss
  43. Counting primes in Google Chrome
  44. Google Chrome: the developer angle
  45. Chrome browser memory usage: a good start
  46. Microsoft.com blank in Google Chrome browser history
  47. It is time we stopped talking about Rich Internet Applications
  48. 10 things you might not have known about XAML
  49. The new Google Chrome browser: a bad day for Firefox
  50. Don’t tell me to turn off Vista’s UAC

August 2008

  1. The relentless branding of the Internet
  2. Internet Explorer 8, FireFox 3 pop-under failure
  3. Apple rapped by ad standards body for not supporting Flash and Java
  4. Delphi and C++ Builder 2009 are available to order
  5. Vista shell annoyances
  6. Parts of EcmaScript 4 deemed unsound for the Web
  7. Detailed article on Microsoft’s Midori published
  8. Silverlight 2 threading issues, Quickstarts not working
  9. What’s new in Delphi 2009
  10. BBC iPlayer supporting H.264 in Flash – what’s the point of downloading now?
  11. Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  12. Is Silverlight evil?
  13. Backup: a gap in Google’s online services
  14. Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it
  15. SQL Server 2008 is done
  16. Will anyone untangle the nofollow mess?
  17. Sorry Beeb – I’m uninstalling your Olympic monkey
  18. Silverlight’s big Olympic moment – but not in the UK
  19. Office 2007 ODF support: my guess is it will be good
  20. CNN Daily Top 10 spam email shows failure of user education
  21. Innovative multi-user Windows XP system may breach Microsoft license
  22. It’s not just free software that has poor usability
  23. Gruesome ad from Dell, Intel
  24. More Oslo hints in PDC schedule
  25. Fixing wi-fi on Asus Eee PC 901 with Linux

July 2008

  1. JavaFX – just for Java guys?
  2. The trouble with Knol
  3. Eee 901 problems – does Asus still care about Linux?
  4. Analysing Mojave: is Vista really that good?
  5. Vista Network weirdness
  6. FluorineFx and Weborb bring fast web services to .NET and Flex
  7. MobileMe losing mail
  8. Nearly three years on, what’s the verdict on the Office 2007 ribbon?
  9. Is it still worth buying Acrobat?
  10. Microsoft Office is ludicrously expensive
  11. Open collaboration on Knol
  12. My first Google Knol
  13. The Sun swings it: Adobe AIR hits the big time
  14. Hi res audio files that are no better than CD
  15. Web stats: do you believe Google, or the web site owner?
  16. Thawte wants me to give away my password
  17. Amazon S3 grumbles
  18. Amazon S3 was not built on spare capacity
  19. WCF Sessions with Silverlight and Flex
  20. Online services need stronger security if business users are to entrust their critical data to the cloud
  21. Free McFly CD in Mail on Sunday shows media powershift
  22. Consuming .NET SOAP in Adobe Flex
  23. Test your DNS server for cache poisoning susceptibility
  24. Testing a web service with IIS 7 on Vista
  25. Why I can’t use Microsoft Live Search for real work
  26. Adobe Reader 9 brings AIR to the world
  27. The sad story of the LG Viewty – case study in Web 2.0 failure
  28. Lively attack on Microsoft’s poor marketing – from within
  29. Web 2.0 for the rest of us?
  30. Changing models of journalism
  31. Dylan’s Drawn Blank exhibition
  32. iPhone fever in London
  33. Mastering engineer Greg Calbi on the loudness wars
  34. Debugging PHP code to fix a WordPress problem
  35. Apple accused of security blunder; highlights cloud risks
  36. Sample code for a very very simple VB database application
  37. The messy world of the Web 2.0 user interface
  38. My early days with music part 2: records with my parents
  39. More AVG nonsense
  40. Why you can’t trust a Google ad
  41. eBay insisting on PayPal only in the UK
  42. Have you found an AIR app you actually use yet?
  43. BBC iPlayer beta firewall issues
  44. The BBC’s Global Visual Language
  45. WordPress permalinks broke my RSS feed
  46. What’s new in Subversion 1.5
  47. Pretty permalinks improve stats reporting
  48. She Loves You: the beginning of my music life

June 2008

  1. Microsoft fixes Xbox 360 license transfer
  2. Canon’s bad dialog, weak Linux support
  3. Bowie on Bowie in the Mail on Sunday
  4. Zavvi Direct saga highlights fake domain risks
  5. Microsoft accused of reinventing EJB – ouch!
  6. MobileMe steals Live Mesh thunder
  7. Windows server compromised by PHP application
  8. Adobe’s Acrobat.com REST API
  9. Native code client coming for CardSpace as .NET runtime too demanding
  10. “ODF has clearly won” – Microsoft plays with fire
  11. Ruby interpreter flaws make the case for JRuby?
  12. Windows 3.1 in a Virtual Machine – Virtual PC wins this one
  13. The ten best Kinks albums
  14. Ninja Gaiden 2: great but not quite finished
  15. Where is your SQL Server CE Database?
  16. Microsoft MSMVPs blog site taken over by malware
  17. Microsoft’s big break: failing competitors
  18. Real-world book authoring
  19. What’s coming in Buzzword – and Live Writer as Word for the cloud
  20. Taming AVG
  21. Wine is 1.0
  22. Simple ASP.NET performance tips
  23. Installing SproutCore on Ubuntu on VirtualBox
  24. The RIA dilemma: open vs predictable
  25. Why developers don’t write apps for Vista
  26. Quick code performance test for Flash vs Silverlight
  27. Microsoft’s 8 years of wrongness
  28. Now it’s YahGoog
  29. UK official tax CD caught by Vista’s virtual store
  30. Digg-style bug reports = great feedback
  31. Simple CRUD with Silverlight
  32. One prediction I got right: user-generated content in Britannica
  33. Silverlight developer reference poster shows off DeepZoom
  34. Bet on Entity Framework, not LINQ to SQL
  35. Expression Blend 2.5 problems with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2
  36. Fixing a Silverlight 2.0 WCF reference in a VB application
  37. More Silverlight, Visual Studio setup hassles
  38. Upgrading to Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2? Proceed with care
  39. By the way, your website is down
  40. VirtualBox: get today’s update
  41. VirtualBox is amazing, 50% faster than Virtual PC on my PC
  42. SQLite with Delphi
  43. What’s new in Silverlight 2.0 beta 2
  44. End of an era: Ninja Gaiden designer Tomonobu Itagaki departs Tecmo
  45. Silverlight vs Windows Presentation Foundation
  46. Missing from Bill Gates Tech Ed keynote: Live Mesh
  47. Tech Ed news: Silverlight 2.0 goes live, more Oslo hype
  48. Flash in PDF – breakthrough, disaster, or irrelevant?
  49. Adobe’s Acrobat.com connects with online storage, collaboration

May 2008

  1. Google App Engine line endings snaglet exposes Windows/Unix disconnect
  2. Ruby on Rails on .NET
  3. Microsoft’s Misunderstood Misunderstandings
  4. Proof that Google is God
  5. Google Gears support in WordPress – is this the road to plug-in hell?
  6. Danny Thorpe back at Microsoft
  7. Adobe Creative Suite 4 in public beta
  8. Microsoft wants to end the Windows release circus?
  9. What’s coming in Windows? Check the PDC 2008 agenda
  10. Mac users refusing to install Silverlight
  11. News: Steven Sinofsky says nothing about Windows 7
  12. UK Rock Band prices strike an ugly chord
  13. More on Debian’s OpenSSL bungle
  14. ODF support in Microsoft Office: a sign of strength, or weakness?
  15. Microsoft Access needs a complete rethink – or retirement
  16. Who needs AIR? NY Times does desktop Silverlight app for Mac
  17. Facebook Chat thinks I’m running IE6
  18. Microsoft: forget the Live Search Cashback, just improve the engine
  19. Why we don’t talk about Zune
  20. Installing .NET, PowerShell on Windows 2008 Server Core: it can be done
  21. WinFS reborn: SQL Server as a file system
  22. Cenzic web app report highlights security problems
  23. Misunderstanding Vista
  24. Another ThreatFire false positive
  25. Painful Debian / Ubuntu SSL bug
  26. Small Business Server 2008: less for more?
  27. My high risk blog reader
  28. Is Vista more prone to malware than Windows 2000?
  29. Visual Basic returning to Mac Office
  30. How Outlook 2007 deletes your messages without asking
  31. Substantial .NET, Visual Studio 2008 update in Service Pack 1
  32. Lax bank lets through fraud
  33. Xobni: Outlook users should try this now
  34. Concurrent programming done right
  35. Another DRM trainwreck
  36. Peter Gabriel at Dreamforce Europe
  37. Making sense of Salesforce.com
  38. Codegear sold to Embarcadero
  39. Running a business on Salesforce.com plus Google Adwords
  40. Marc Benioff: Google deal is aimed at a common enemy
  41. Neil Young’s controversial Blu-ray archive announcement
  42. Microsoft to Yahoo: Forget it, then
  43. At last: legal music downloads, no DRM, no lossy compression
  44. Popfly Game Creator – programming online with Silverlight
  45. Napster crashed my PC
  46. Sun’s bad quarter
  47. Live Mesh: Hailstorm take 2?

April 2008

  1. What is Microsoft’s new language?
  2. Role of web video in tech communications
  3. Microsoft Live Mesh is AIR++
  4. Why UAC is (mostly) not a security boundary
  5. Schwartz vs Mickos on MySQL and open source
  6. Office 2007: what do you lose by setting binary formats as default?
  7. Buying a Microsoft code-signing certificate from Thawte? Don’t use Vista.
  8. Vista SP1 vs Server 2008 as a desktop OS: more comparisons
  9. What to say about Ubuntu Hardy Heron?
  10. Microsoft: we might withdraw Yahoo offer
  11. Generics, anonymous methods, Unicode coming to Delphi
  12. Microsoft’s Office UI patent trap: watch out with that MFC update
  13. Will Microsoft abandon DRM?
  14. Fixing Vista: Microsoft’s third-party problem
  15. Microsoft: Live Mesh or Live Mess? Here’s what to read.
  16. CDs,DVDs still account for more than 75% of music industry revenue, but shrinking
  17. How to code better: new book from ThoughtWorks
  18. Britannica going more towards free
  19. RIA means … not much
  20. mvn cloudtools:deploy
  21. WordPerfect X4: not good at PDF, OOXML, ODF import
  22. Windows Server 2008 is better than Vista, but why?
  23. Loudness war rumbles on
  24. Giving up on the mobile web
  25. Amazon’s cloud computing to surpass its retailing business?
  26. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud gets persistent storage
  27. MySpace account hacked
  28. Retail crisis: when I shop on the High Street, I feel I’ve been mugged
  29. What bloggers thought of QCon London 2008
  30. Visual C++ Feature Pack includes major MFC update
  31. Microsoft’s live maps upgrade is a downgrade in the UK – developers are fuming
  32. Google App Engine: how much will you pay for freedom?
  33. Amazon, eBay, FaceBook: the risk of building your business on a third-party platform
  34. A real-world account of Google Adsense – and it doesn’t look good
  35. Ubuntu Hardy Heron – very cool
  36. Reality strikes for Blog Friends Facebook app
  37. Microsoft discusses next-gen MSDN … on Facebook
  38. JBuilder 2008 and Vista’s Program Compatibility Assistant
  39. Microsoft’s business model for Silverlight
  40. Microsoft: OOXML has won approval as an ISO/IEC standard
  41. Is Google Gears safe?

March 2008

  1. Help! We’re running a VB3 app and we’ve lost the code
  2. How hard can it be to play an AVI file?
  3. Small Business Server 2008: no ISA Server, no built-in tape backup
  4. Windows 7 rumoured to have new UI framework with Ribbon and Jewel
  5. Now it’s Eclipse that has “baroque” code
  6. Introspective QCon asks hard questions about Java, SOA, REST
  7. Ugly Flash: auto-play audio with no stop button
  8. XBox 360: nearly great
  9. BBC standardizing on Flash for web video
  10. The BBC is rebuilding its web platform
  11. Qcon day two and REST vs WS-*
  12. The psychic powers of the man from Mozilla
  13. Beck on Agile: it’s all about the team
  14. Does my bus look big in this? Martin Fowler and Jim Webber debunk middleware
  15. Mono on the iPhone
  16. Imagine this: A REST microkernel
  17. Erich Gamma on Eclipse and Jazz
  18. QCon London
  19. Mix08 is all online
  20. Help! My app only works maximized
  21. MSHTML: layout engine completely rewritten for Internet Explorer 8
  22. Steve Ballmer: post Yahoo, we will be a PHP shop
  23. Apple’s iPhone app tax: 30%
  24. Thoughts on Mix08 Day One
  25. What’s new in IE8: Activities and Web Slices, developer tools
  26. Moonlight update: Silverlight 2 on Linux hardly started
  27. Latest stats: Video web growing fast
  28. Mix08: Rich Internet the Microsoft way
  29. New gadgety home page at bbc.co.uk
  30. Fixing Server 2003: reprise after two and a half years

February 2008

  1. Google Health, Phorm, where next for your private data?
  2. Microsoft’s Vista Capable campaign: where it all went wrong
  3. Silverlight steals the show at Microsoft’s UK Heroes launch
  4. Microsoft Softgrid: virtualization for applications
  5. Tips on digitising vinyl
  6. Trolltech says Qt for Windows CE coming in May
  7. Chris Anderson on Freeconomics
  8. Adobe AIR now available; not just consumer fluff
  9. Fixing Windows Media Player after a system upgrade
  10. How long should it take to set up a laptop?
  11. Sun’s OpenSolaris community fracas: not just a name thing
  12. Microsoft moves to protect its Office business in format war
  13. Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz makes the case for free and open source software
  14. Contemplating an in-place upgrade to Server 2008? Read this first
  15. Microsoft promises WPF DataGrid, big performance improvement for .NET clients
  16. Mono at Mix08
  17. Google the “official innovation provider” for Republican convention
  18. Writing for a global readership
  19. Vista SP1 report
  20. Images of Sun
  21. Sun reflections: open source but not open development?
  22. AT&T CEO on bandwidth: We’re running out of capacity that we thought would last for centuries
  23. How Sun will profit from MySQL
  24. Doing Web 2.0
  25. Sun’s Media Summit
  26. Tim Bray marks 10 years of XML, weighs into Microsoft
  27. A Word 2007 annoyance: disappearing vertical scroll bar
  28. Hyper-V in Server 2008 RTM doesn’t like non-US locales
  29. Vista SP1 shares same core as Server 2008
  30. Vista SP1 impatience is an opportunity for malware
  31. blist: online database, Flash application, beautiful but flawed
  32. Windows Server 2008 is done, embraces PHP
  33. Finding the preview pane in Vista’s Explorer
  34. If Google is worried
  35. Microsoft will have to face its own demons
  36. Anders Hejlsberg: Languages are becoming amalgam
  37. Microsoft and Yahoo: it’s all about the ad platform
  38. Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo

January 2008

  1. Unravelling the reasons for Vista audio glitches
  2. How to speed up Windows Vista: official and unofficial tips
  3. Living without the mouse – the content is the interface
  4. Web usability has a long way to go
  5. Nokia acquires Trolltech,
  6. SQL Server 2008 delayed until third quarter 2008
  7. Polarisation
  8. Flex briefing in London tonight
  9. Why Internet Explorer users get the worst of the Web
  10. Use HTML not Flash, Silverlight or XUL, says W3C working draft
  11. Escaping the Adobe AIR sandbox
  12. Van Morrison fan site under attack by Web Sheriff
  13. Free book on LINQ
  14. Changing the motherboard or storage controller underneath Windows XP and Vista
  15. Sun gets a database manager, but Oracle owns its InnoDB engine
  16. How to debug into .NET Framework source code
  17. My Mac day: Jobs of the print variety
  18. Burton Group slams ODF, praises OOXML
  19. Does Google rot your brain?
  20. Great anecdote in the Economist about the decline of the CD
  21. Becta’s report on Vista and Office 2007: wise advice, or mere polemic?
  22. Trying out SqueezeCenter and Jive (updated)
  23. 8GB Asus Eee PC from April 2008, Windows or Linux
  24. Finding obscure commands in Office 2007
  25. SharePoint’s secret sauce
  26. Detailed look at a WordPress hack
  27. Is Adobe spying on you?
  28. Why I haven’t seen the best of Bill Gates
  29. Wikia Search is live
  30. Unanswered question: how’s Vista’s real-world security compared to XP?
  31. Playing music over the network on an Asus Eee PC

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December 2007

  1. 2007: the most commented posts, and a bit of blog introspection
  2. Turn Me Up: an attempt to end the loudness wars
  3. Firefox segmentation fault on Asus Eee PC after update
  4. When good software goes bad
  5. Windows Mobile sync pain
  6. Asus Eee PC down to £199
  7. Tim Bray likes Mixed Up
  8. Visual Studio 2008 review, and the WPF business apps debate
  9. An Office Ribbon macro to control audio in Word
  10. The day my web site was hacked
  11. Knol questions
  12. Amazon SimpleDB: a database server for the internet
  13. Another pro musician gives up on Vista audio
  14. 450 fixes in Office 2007 service pack 1
  15. Wired votes for Zune over iPod
  16. Live Workspace: can someone explain the offline story?
  17. Microsoft Volta: magic, but is it useful magic?
  18. Mono and C# on an Asus Eee Pc
  19. CodeRage sessions available for download
  20. Eee PC vs Origami UMPC: D’Oh
  21. Fixing Webcam black screen on an Asus Eee PC
  22. Vista vs XP performance: some informal tests

November 2007

  1. Extend SQLite with Delphi functions
  2. ParallelFX: concurrency library for .NET
  3. Zoho users logging into other accounts by accident
  4. Zoho CEO on Flash vs Javascript
  5. Performance testing Vista: misleading reporting of inadequate tests.
  6. Buzzword gets word count, easier sharing
  7. Vista myths and reality
  8. Mobile data taking off at last
  9. .NET Framework for Symbian
  10. CodeRage II: Windows only, login problems
  11. Camera, Flash, Action: review of the LG Viewty
  12. Another crack at the online office suite
  13. .NET history: Smack as well as Cool
  14. Microsoft vs Mozilla Javascript wars
  15. Long-term implications of the Kindle
  16. 15m UK bank details lost – but what’s the risk?
  17. Is CodeRage the future of tech conferences?
  18. How to write secure (and less buggy) code
  19. How Akamai Download Manager hides your downloads (VS 2008 downloaders take note)
  20. REST vs WS*
  21. First thoughts on Kindle: Amazon’s play for downloadable content
  22. Visual Studio 2008 is done
  23. Which games console this Christmas?
  24. Are you Mort, Elvis or Einstein?
  25. Windows Media Center madness
  26. Saving the planet with Sun’s thin client or an Asus Eee PC
  27. Huge update to MFC unveiled
  28. Google’s Open Handset Alliance site: not mobile, not open
  29. Tech Ed reflections
  30. Project Astoria a hit at TechEd
  31. Why Silverlight?
  32. Why Entity Framework when we have LINQ to SQL?
  33. SQL Server 2008 will miss own launch party
  34. Visual Studio 2008 release by end November, Sync Framework announced
  35. OpenSocial: where’s the identity story?
  36. Programming Slimserver from .NET
  37. Kim Cameron hacked, commenters make fools of themselves

October 2007

  1. The curious business model of internet swap sites
  2. Why does audio glitch in Vista?
  3. Microsoft Oslo: now where have I heard this before?
  4. UK Government resists Peer pressure on internet security
  5. How ASP.NET began in Java, and the truth about Project Cool
  6. VOIP from a mobile without Wi-Fi
  7. Lessons from Microsoft’s WSUS blunder
  8. Two spins on Microsoft’s excellent quarter
  9. A musician speaks out to defend Oink
  10. Microsoft Ruby
  11. OOXML vs ODF: where next for interoperability?
  12. Considering Microsoft’s “rift with the web”
  13. A tale of two Adobe conferences
  14. Now I understand what a rich internet application is
  15. Flash, Silverlight the future of video games?
  16. The Who: another take on how to sell music online
  17. Gutsy Ubuntu and Precipice Computing
  18. Adobe: friend or enemy of open source, open standards?
  19. Adobe shows how anything can be a web application
  20. BBC to use Flash, Adobe streaming for iPlayer
  21. How much “branded desktop presence” will you put up with?
  22. What’s in Flash 10?
  23. Mark Anders remembers Blackbird, and other Microsoft hits and misses
  24. Adobe MAX Europe and its annoying web site
  25. Matt Mullenweg’s less-is-better approach to software quality
  26. Ian Rogers at Yahoo! Music says no to DRM
  27. Charles Fitzgerald: Oracle will buy Salesforce.com
  28. Hosted platforms and the risk of lock-in
  29. New Silverlight book with live web coding examples
  30. Radiohead’s pay-what-you-like download: 160kbps MP3
  31. An SLA for Amazon S3
  32. RM’s Linux miniBook
  33. Paying on the web? Look for the small padlock, not the big one
  34. The curious silence of the IE team – Microsoft needs to rediscover blogging
  35. Who’s got the best search engine?
  36. Facebook, Comet, FireEagle at Future of Web Apps
  37. Great for debugging: Microsoft to release .NET Framework source
  38. Microsoft Seadragon: smooth scaling for web images, coming to Silverlight
  39. Notes on the Future of Web Apps: mobile web, scalability, Zoho, Microsoft
  40. John Resig makes the case for standards-based Rich Internet Applications
  41. Quintura cloud for ITWriting.com
  42. 90% of web sites are illegal
  43. Web identity, Facebook, iPhone debated at Future of Web Apps conference
  44. Adobe Thermo: Visual programming for designers
  45. Microsoft Office Live Workspace: what’s missing from the FAQ?
  46. Radiohead’s digital experiment
  47. Upgrading WordPress

September 2007

  1. What’s wrong with the mobile web?
  2. Zimki closure shows the perils of hosted web platforms
  3. Amazon launches iTunes music store competitor
  4. Ubuntu Desktop not used in business
  5. Why Open Office does not import/export Microsoft Office Open XML
  6. Fixing Bluetooth on a Toshiba with Ubuntu
  7. The battle for the dominant Web API
  8. IBM’s new Lotus Symphony
  9. Scott Guthrie on .NET futures
  10. CodeGear’s Ruby on Rails IDE is released
  11. Want a job? Learn Silverlight, not WPF
  12. iPod database successfully hacked – for now
  13. New iPod locked more tightly to iTunes, will not work with Linux
  14. Ninja Gaiden 2 announced
  15. Tried Vista speech recognition yet?
  16. LiveStation uses peer-to-peer, Silverlight for live TV
  17. Transactional memory draws applause at Mix07 UK
  18. Microsoft to support PHP in Expression Web 2.0
  19. Microsoft Silverlight vs Adobe Flex
  20. Silverlight at Mix07 UK
  21. Nice cup of tea at Mix UK?
  22. Windows Live: why doesn’t SkyDrive integrate with Office?
  23. ODF vs OOXML: A plague on both your houses
  24. Silverlight is released for Windows, promised for Linux
  25. Will Adobe’s tools ever run on Linux?
  26. Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it.
  27. Hands on with the iPhone

August 2007

  1. Ubuntu Linux on a Tablet PC
  2. IBM Project Zero
  3. How many rotting PDO CDs are out there?
  4. In praise of SlimServer
  5. SQLite wrapper for Delphi
  6. MFC not dead – “massive update” planned
  7. 27 steps to download 2 documents – what happened to usability?
  8. Tip of the day: Robocopy is in Vista
  9. Recreating iTunes in Silverlight
  10. Tafiti: search as a rich internet application
  11. Loud CDs get played more quietly
  12. Flash gets hardware-accelerated H.264 video
  13. Security errors when developing for Windows Mobile
  14. The Samsung i600 and Windows Mobile
  15. Word 2007 bug: ask for RTF, get DOCX
  16. Microsoft’s Vista update – SP1 by another name?
  17. PC Pro on its pointless cover CDs
  18. Netcraft: IIS gaining on Apache
  19. ThoughtWorks Mingle: is JRuby always this slow?
  20. Amazon FPS – is this the micropayment revolution?
  21. BBC iPlayer is a bit of a mess, sadly

July 2007

  1. Enabling AHCI on Vista
  2. ThoughtWorks Mingle is released
  3. How big a problem is Click Fraud?
  4. UK Mix07 announced
  5. LINQ: “Customers are massively confused”
  6. PHP Zend Framework will go visual
  7. Fixing an over-sleepy Toshiba Portege M400 running Vista
  8. Family.Show – an excellent WPF demo app
  9. An interactive cookery book for your kitchen computer
  10. Simple RAD tools from industry giants fly below the radar
  11. Hot news: the Internet is as insecure as ever
  12. Salesforce.com + Google + Adobe Flex and AIR = New Internet platform?
  13. From BT to VOIP
  14. CodeGear abandons .NET Windows Forms?
  15. How to buy market share in search … or not
  16. Performance expert becomes Visual Studio Chief Architect
  17. Audio in Vista: more hell than heaven
  18. Microsoft sets launch day for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008
  19. Fixing the Xbox 360
  20. Sun’s ODF converter
  21. Microsoft on Visual Studio 2008 and beyond
  22. Time to stop using non-generic collections
  23. I broke Vista again
  24. Loudness wars article remixed

June 2007

  1. Common misconceptions about Rich Internet Applications
  2. Will Windows DRM spoil the BBC iPlayer party?
  3. Facebook
  4. Adobe AIR security concerns
  5. Don’t buy Open Office
  6. CodeGear puts 64-bit on the roadmap
  7. Bringing paper and ebook together
  8. SQLite, test-driven development, and the inscrutable SQL standard
  9. CD swapping with HitFlip
  10. The declining price of recorded music
  11. How Microsoft changed its mind about Office XML standardization
  12. The version problem of today: browser compatibility
  13. Office Open XML vs COM automation
  14. Why doesn’t Adobe’s AIR dev guide mention SQLite?
  15. The problem of old Java runtimes
  16. How to speed up Vista: disable the slow slow search
  17. Apple iPhone needs Google Gears
  18. Lennon and McCartney, Yin and Yang
  19. PCs that shut themselves down
  20. Google’s new model of app development
  21. Adobe Live in London – quick report
  22. FireFox team not sure about Google Gears adoption
  23. Google: Don’t let your kids use Gears
  24. New Live Writer is out

May 2007

  1. Why Google Gears? Thoughts from Google Developer Day
  2. SQLite will be everywhere
  3. Google’s offline problem
  4. My question to Google
  5. Google Developer Day begins
  6. Not convinced by LINA
  7. Offline blog authoring with Word 2007
  8. Offline blog authoring with Adobe Contribute
  9. How many XBox 360s have failed?
  10. Sutter on Concurrency
  11. Microsoft PDC postponed due to lack of content
  12. Microsoft: .doc and .xls are dangerous
  13. Sorry Ryan, this can’t be done
  14. Why Rich Internet Applications Matter
  15. Google bans essay ads
  16. Adobe CS3 won’t install
  17. Visual Programming is back: PopFly, Pipes, Scratch
  18. Microsoft has “no plans to litigate”
  19. Eclipse, WebSphere winners in latest Java survey
  20. A bad experience with Windows Live
  21. Amazon and the future of music downloads
  22. Open Office chokes on Open XML spec
  23. Microsoft vs Open Source: only one loser
  24. Office Open XML needs wrapper classes
  25. Developers still miss VB6
  26. Sweet harmony between W3C and WHATWG
  27. Why you should keep UAC enabled on Vista
  28. JBuilder 2007 comes to the Mac
  29. Mix Unmixed
  30. Canon Exposed
  31. Hi, got a Dell? Outlook slow? Let me fix it
  32. Linn Records adopts FLAC for hi-res downloads
  33. Mono may implement Silverlight for Linux
  34. Times Reader and offline Silverlight at Mix07
  35. Pay and play: how the Silverlight .Net runtime is kept small

April 2007

  1. Silverlight on the Mac: picture
  2. Silverlight with cross-platform .NET runtime announced, alpha download available
  3. AppForge: a product activation nightmare
  4. 202 mix07
  5. Do you want Office in the cloud?
  6. Why I’m not using Google Web History
  7. How not to get support
  8. C# code to detect UAC elevation on Vista
  9. More Windows Installer confusion: managed code custom actions a no-no
  10. Programmatically detecting whether UAC is enabled
  11. A bug in Vista’s UAC
  12. Google apps in the real world
  13. Tech people like Bob Dylan
  14. Dylan in concert, Birmingham, April 17th 2007
  15. Using WordPress pages
  16. Mono’s new GUI library: how is this hype justified?
  17. WPF/E is now Silverlight
  18. Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on Office Open XML
  19. Will CDs become worthless?
  20. Official performance patch for Outlook 2007
  21. HTML5 vs XHTML2 vs DoNothing
  22. Microsoft will move your server to the cloud
  23. Orange is undecided about Flash on mobile devices
  24. Making search better: smarter algorithms, or richer metadata?
  25. Infinitely scalable web services
  26. 120 days with Vista
  27. MP3 device runs .NET – but in Mono guise
  28. Why the change of CEO at CodeGear?
  29. The search for the new client runtime
  30. Delphi for PHP first impressions

March 2007

  1. SQLite: what a difference transactions make
  2. Try Delphi for PHP for one day
  3. Don’t call your Windows app UpdateAnything
  4. A common-sense introduction to software factories
  5. Delphi for PHP is done
  6. Automating development: Software factories for Visual Studio
  7. Don’t just blame users for woeful security online
  8. Visual Studio 6 on Vista
  9. Thawte promotes security, insecurity
  10. Semi-documented APIs in Windows
  11. Salesforce.com hints at Adobe Flex support
  12. Delphi 2007 is done
  13. Why software projects fail
  14. Microsoft attempts to buy search share
  15. Farewell to the Times Reader
  16. Scrum: good but not that good
  17. Getting to grips with LINQ 2.0
  18. Constantine on Usability: should the Office Ribbon be customizable?
  19. Quick thoughts from QCon
  20. Blogging is on the brink of a new phase
  21. A virtual conference for Delphi 2007, Delphi for PHP, JBuilder
  22. Wii a one-trick console, but it’s a great trick
  23. Software architects cautious about SOA; London Underground makes it work
  24. Visual Studio 2005: still needs admin rights on Vista?
  25. Find the top ten of anything
  26. What would the young Bill Gates make of today’s Microsoft?
  27. IE7 phishing site confusion
  28. WordPress hacked: where do we go from here?
  29. Jitters about Adobe becoming “Microsoft of the web”

February 2007

  1. Google can’t count
  2. Who’s coding the Linux OS?
  3. Can CodeGear make sense of PHP development on Windows?
  4. Got Paint.NET?
  5. Peeking into Vista’s virtual store
  6. Annoying Word 2007 problem: can’t select text
  7. How secure is OpenID?
  8. Rasmus Lerdorf on security, hormones and PHP
  9. More Future of Web Apps hits and misses
  10. Netvibes Universal Widget API and OpenID
  11. Notes on the Future of Web Apps
  12. Digg will support OpenID
  13. A WordPress flaw: no paged comments
  14. Where’s the business model in Web 2.0? Don’t ask MyWebAlert.
  15. Tony Visconti on the CD loudness wars
  16. Microsoft Soapbox uses Flash
  17. How secure is Windows Vista?
  18. Read this blog in French
  19. Why Microsoft’s search share is declining
  20. Is Steve Yegge talking about JavaScript?
  21. CodeGear (Borland) to support PHP tools
  22. Why Outlook 2007 is slow: Microsoft’s official answer
  23. Vista – worth having?
  24. Help! I’ve been sent an ODT file
  25. Google Maps puzzler
  26. IE7 script madness
  27. Steve Jobs on DRM: sense and nonsense
  28. Windows web server market share grows
  29. Open Document to Office Open XML converter: not good
  30. CD loudness: the pro perspective
  31. Miguel de Icaza on ODF vs OOXML
  32. Bloor on the failure of antivirus products

January 2007

  1. Free WPF datagrid control from Xceed
  2. Intel: don’t bother us with bug reports
  3. Vista display driver takes a break
  4. Delphi and Windows Installer: small problem, fiddly solution
  5. Sun’s J2EE certification may be too slack
  6. Tube trains show off Windows Presentation Foundation
  7. When vinyl is better than CD
  8. Slow Outlook 2007: the comments keep coming
  9. MySpace, Microsoft and scalability
  10. The tangled web of Windows Vista versioning and compatibility
  11. Apple to Linn Records: you can’t use Apple lossless
  12. QCon: a London developer conference
  13. Linn Records offers lossless, DRM-free 24-bit downloads
  14. Apple iPhone mania
  15. Living with Vista Ultimate in the digital home
  16. Word 2007 clipboard slowdown
  17. Vista, Office 2007 changes: cosmetic, or not?
  18. Elementary error breaks Outlook 2007 POP3 mail, say users
  19. New Order’s fantastic 12″ singles
  20. Is Eclipse adoption peaking?
  21. Using MSBuild from the command line

2006 90

December 2006

  1. The loudness wars: why many CDs sound bad
  2. System impact of Outlook 2007
  3. What you’re reading
  4. The backward march of iPod/MP3 devices
  5. The best and worst of Vista multimedia
  6. Amazon S3 sample update
  7. Farewell to consistent UI on Windows
  8. Why does Vista think my documents are music?
  9. Bugs in IE7 RSS platform?
  10. Free preview chapter of Adam Nathan’s WPF book
  11. Hey, Microsoft! What happened to XBox 360 backwards compatibility?
  12. XNA, XBox 360 and the decline of computer science
  13. XNA up and running
  14. Installing XNA Game Studio Express on Vista
  15. Java SE 6
  16. JetBrains OMEA going free and open source
  17. Google ranks MSN search top
  18. The death of SVG
  19. Developing from prototypes, and Microsoft vs Adobe
  20. WPF/E preview is out – but no cross-platform .NET for now
  21. Conquering the Office Ribbon
  22. A simple blog reader for the IE7 common feed list
  23. What happened to Smart Tags in Office 2007 – and is the ribbon next?
  24. Installing Delphi 2006 on Vista
  25. Vista hyperbole and reality – and what happened to the pillars of Longhorn?
  26. CollabNet Enterprise Edition now free for up to 15 users

November 2006

  1. Salesforce.com: WS-* is dead
  2. Mysterious Windows Vista hang explained
  3. Running Vista with dodgy drivers? Try turning off Aero
  4. Irony: Outlook Web Access more usable than Outlook
  5. Why CDs sound bad
  6. Office ribbons more like a chain?
  7. Legal implications of Microsoft’s Office 2007 ribbons
  8. Is this really JBuilder?
  9. Borland’s JBuilder-on-Eclipse emerges
  10. Mono in IT Week
  11. Outlook 2007 is slow, RSS broken
  12. Vista on a Tablet
  13. Vista Media Center: remarkably good
  14. Why Borland kept CodeGear
  15. Vista is on MSDN. Now for the tricky decisions.
  16. Borland keeps its developer tools after all
  17. Microsoft’s deeply-ingrained local admin culture
  18. First encounter with Office 2007 document compatibility
  19. Tech-Ed: Don’t start new projects in Delphi or FoxPro
  20. Live.com for developers
  21. More significant than Vista or Office: .NET Framework 3.0 is released
  22. Gyrating AJAX model excites Tech-Ed
  23. Microsoft urges FoxPro, Delphi developers to move to .NET
  24. Outlook 2007: still famously obscure
  25. Patent threat lifted from Mono
  26. Free final Vista and Office 2007 for UK developers
  27. Vista application compatibility: it’s not going to be fun
  28. Vista on a Tablet
  29. Customer complains about iTunes DRM, gets refund

October 2006

  1. Developers quick to adopt .NET 2.0, slow to leave Visual C++ 6.0
  2. Reinventing HTML: it may be too late
  3. IE7: 22 hours to catch a phish
  4. Phishing part 2: Firefox gets there first
  5. FireFox 2.0, IE7 both fail phishing test
  6. On deceptive error messages
  7. The Rickie Lee Jones MP3 store
  8. Microsoft hires Ruby .NET expert
  9. Reading the IE7 common feed list
  10. RSS in IE7: not too good
  11. Amazon S3 Delphi sample
  12. Brief notes on IE7
  13. Songs that are just about perfect
  14. Searchability the key to usability
  15. Apple ships virus, blames Microsoft
  16. Live Writer good, Live.com performance bad
  17. Oracle, JDeveloper and Eclipse
  18. Salesforce.com, Apex and Web 2.0 vendor lock-in
  19. Windows Vista: no backup to tape
  20. Moving to WordPress without breaking links
  21. Users plead with Borland to give up .NET
  22. IE7 to be released 18th October, three years late
  23. If Microsoft doesn’t use UAC, why should anyone else?
  24. Google’s unsettling lack of direction
  25. Vista security: now prove it
  26. Vista: the search for drivers begins
  27. Protecting the Windows kernel
  28. Stob gets her teeth into Word
  29. Times Reader memory shock
  30. Who cares about W3C validation?
  31. The top ten albums, ever. Period.

August 2006

  1. ELP: bombast or brilliance?

July 2006

  1. Why I hate compilations
  2. Mott the Hoople
  3. Fripp’s Exposure: a reissue done right

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