Archive for January, 2006

Foxit Reader, the better PDF reader

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Just found Foxit Reader as a good, small and fast alternative for the huge Adobe Reader.

More Features online

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I spent some time tweaking the blog. I enabled permalink rewrite and added the Blog News. They inform about changes on that blog, they have an extra RSS Feed too.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I updated “A practical guide to enhance working with VS.Net� to address software changes and add the solution for the not profiled assemblies with Ncover

Tweaking VS 2003

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I found this document that explains how to hack VS 2003 in that way that you can create ASP.NET Applications as class libraries still have the component wizard and also be able to run the stuff in the browser. By Fritz Onion

Free Content Distribution Network

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Just heard from it in a podcast, it’s not new actually but I guess it is needed in times where content distribution via podcasts becomes popular and transfer quota consuming. The CDN is called Coral. It saves your bandwidth by mirroring your files across their infrastructure, you just need to append .nyud.net:8080 to the hostname [...]

Modifying Setup .msi Files

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I discovered a nice way to modify requirements for installing software from msi packages. All you need is a MS program called orca(I provided it for your comfort), normally part of the W2k3 Platform SDK, to open and edit the database inside the msi files. For example to remove OS requirements, as it would be [...]

MS Video Game Programming Webcast

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

There will be Webcast about 3D Video Game Programming at MS to give a instruction to C# and 3D games. You will need a Passport accout to view and download it. You can use this dummy account I set up. Mail: msvideocast@hotmail.com Password: norealone The webcast will be broadcastet from this page. Live start at [...]


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