Photos from the Farnborough Airshow

25 Jul 2006

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hibri/sets/72157594211201138/

Outlook 2007 (Beta 2) Email rendering problem with AVG Anti-virus

18 Jun 2006

Update 18-12-2006.

This is no longer an issue, with the final release of Outlook 2007. I don’t know where it has been fixed, either on AVG or Outlook.

A very dissappointing development is that, Grisoft has decided to discontinue the free edition of AVG.

There is an e-mail rendering problem with Outlook 2007 Beta 2 when used with the Grisoft AVG Outlook plugin. AVG certifies each incoming email as safe. This causes Outlook not to render the message body. Outgoing messages are blank too. ~~The fix is to disable the email scanner. I found that the message bodies of my pre and post AVG emails are readable.~~ ~~AVG says this is about~~

MS ~~not following standards, no comments from the Office team yet. Hope this is fixed soon, as AVG offers an excellent free , light weight AV solution.~~

Update to the w800i – iTunes Syncher

18 Jun 2006

Added the option to specify the music folder name on the phone. The folder is

now named “music” on some of the new Walkman phones. This makes it possible to

use with other mass storage devices.

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now named “music” on some of the new Walkman phones. This makes it possible to

use with other mass storage devices.

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[Installation

instructions](Please download the latest version and keep the comments coming in.)

For those interested in the source, I”ve created a [Gotdotnet

workspace](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=5833beb7-709c-459c-95e7-eecda6eb7ea9).

A first look at Office 2007.

14 Jun 2006

The installation was quite faster than previous Office installs. No glitches,

I’ve installed Beta 2 on both my home and work computers. Now, after installing

i fired up Word 2007, and then I was lost. “How do I open a file ?”.

The main menu bar (File, Edit etc.. ) was missing. I had to fiddle around a

bit to find that the big round button with the Office logo on the top left

corner IS the file menu. As usual Office has its own look and feel apart from

the OS, but this time MS has taken it even further. Office has its own Themes.

Yes, Beta 2 comes with a light blue XP theme, and the black/grey Vista theme.

Both themes have the Vista look and feel.

Other than the big UI changes, Word has support for blogging, Beta 2 supports

Wordpress, Livejournal, Typepad blogs. dasBlog and .Text blog support will be

added in a future version. I cant add new blog entries, but I can modify

existing posts. This in my opinion is a major feature, because the blog editors

out there do not have the spell checking features of Word.

There are no major UI changes in Outlook, as in Word, everything looks mostly

the same. There is the To-Do bar on the side, and support for RSS feeds. Task

management is much more nicer and I can organize them by tasks due next week,

this week, no due date etc.. with just a right click. Outlook now has inline

spell checking, no need to hit F7. Everything went well on my office computer,

but Outlook 2007 does not read any of my e-mails on my laptop. The message body

is blank. Hope it didn’t bork my emails !!. Another cool feature in Outlook is

the message attachment preview. Word, Excel and images can be previewed in the

message preview pane itself.

DD3 Wrapup.

05 Jun 2006

A wonderful event on a warm Saturday at the Microsoft campus in Reading.

The complete agenda is here . The slides should be up shortly. The sessions were full of very useful tips and tricks for SQL 2005, Atlas, .Net and security.

On the topic of security, check out the work of Dinis Cruz, who demonstrated how easy it was to hack a .Net application ( for those of you gloating, the same techniques can be applied to Java and C++ apps). The presentation makes a developer think again of all those login dialogs. Dinis has more material on the OWASP website.

Christian Wade’s session on SQL 2005 had some useful tips on .Net code in SQL server and security issues. Common table expressions and tips to optimize recursive queries were also covered.

The Atlas session by Thomas Brattli was packed (Thomas is the founder of www.dhtmlcentral.com, most of you would have used his JavaScript menus) . He demoed how easy it was to AJAX enable ASP.Net pages and develop gadgets for live.com

Dave Sussman did the final session on Health Monitoring .Net applications. He introduced concepts that I didn’t even know existed. There is more info here. Dave and [A wonderful event on a warm Saturday at the Microsoft campus in Reading.