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Outlook messages open up in MS Word
Here’s what happens – you open outlook to compose a new message (or reply to an existing one). Instead of Outlook as your editor, MS Word takes over at this…
Windows Live Writer for Editing Pages
Editing blog ‘posts’ is straightforward in Windows Live Writer. To get to the ‘pages’ (created in Wordpress) was somewhat hidden… Editing ‘pages’ as opposed to ‘posts’ in LiveWriter 1. FILE—>Open…
First Page–A free editor for Cold Fusion Markup (and HTML)
More recently, I returned to some Cold Fusion programming (In the late 90s, I owned and operated – a site dedicated to Cold Fusion development - but moved to other…
Microsoft abandoning its brightest idea ( in a long time….)–The upcoming death of Silverlight
Microsoft seems to have come up with one of the greatest technologies of recent times. A technology that would change the way websites looked and performed. Far more powerful than…
Facebook– Essential Missing Functionality
For the world’s leading social networking site, these missing features are inexcusable: Unable to edit status updates (there's a trick that can be used on updates containing images - but…
iTunes 11–Missing sidebar and File menu
Not sure why these are hidden by default on the Windows version of iTunes. To recover the File menu bar –> CTRL B To recover the sidebar –> CTRL S…
C#, .NET Exception Handling Best Practices
The Problem Statement You have just started working on an existing codebase – an n-Tier project - and noticed that the Exception Handling framework wasn’t as well defined as you…
Automatically Expand Windows Explorer Navigation Pane (left pane)
Of the many things I miss in the Classic Windows View – the Windows Explorer navigation is one of them. In Windows 7, the navigation pane (the leftmost pane), does…
A flexible service oriented architecture that handles multiple platforms (multiple devices, multiple databases…)
The Problem Statement Imagine that you have just built a sophisticated application to work against a SQL Server database. You followed a best-practices approach and separated out your presentation, business…