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Monthly Archives September 2009

Cool feature: Balsamiq’s auto ‘lorem ipsum’ generator

Every now and then I stumble across a feature in an application or web site that is just too good not to mention. Today, it happened when using Balsamiq Mockups.
Like many people, I use lorem ipsum placeholder text. When I want large, random blocks of ‘lorem ipsum’ text, I use the Lipsum Generator; today, I [...]

Posted 16 September 2009 § Technology ‡ Comments (1)

You know there’s a shortage of 64-bit software when…

You know there’s a shortage of 64-bit software when…

You do a Google search for 64 bit applications.
You go to the first hit: Catalogue of 64-bit Software.
You look at the search results and see this:

Of course, the lack of 64-bit software is not the fault of the proprietors of this web site (which is, of its [...]

Posted 16 September 2009 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

Can’t install TFS, or the .Net Framework, or almost anything? Check your security policies!

On a newly-rebuild Windows 2003 server, I set out to install TFS 2008. After installing SQL 2005, and SQL Reporting Services, and SQL Analysis Services, and SQL 2005 Service Pack 3, I fired up the TFS installer, only to ultimately get the dreaded “Send Report/Don’t Send Report” dialog box.

Nice! Looking at the install log was [...]

Posted 14 September 2009 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)