Me and Ervin again did a successful prezzo about Software + Services development with Visual Studio 2008 (This is different from my Tech.Ed session with Poh Sze) at MDEC’s office in Cyberjaya. We tweak the flow of presentation and also the slides. You can download it from my Live Folder.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Minimize Office 2007′s Ribbon
The Ribbon helps you access more of the commands you need, when you need them. But if you want to see the Ribbon only when you need it, you can minimize it so that only the tab names appear all the time. To minimize the Ribbon in any program, double-click any tab name, or press CTRL+F1. You can also right-click any tab name for the option to minimize the Ribbon.
Blizzard on Businessweek
You probably remember Blizzard for its successful Warcraft, Starcarft and Diablo titles and when a video game company got onto pages of Businessweek magazine, they are on to something big. Blizzard recently merges with Activision (Mechwarrior came from this company) and becomes known as Activision Blizzard (announced at the end of 2007).
More info on Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 out
As X1 inches towards release Sony Ericsson X1 US site releases technical spec of the phone with confirmation that it will only be available in black.
Also realize the mini site has more photos of the phone.
Linq to SQL vs ADO.NET Performance
During my ILL Lab tag team with Ervin about Linq to SQL, quite a number of attendees asked us about Linq to SQL performance compared to ADO.NET SQLConnection. I couldn’t provide too much information but I remember Rico Mariani’s blog on Linq performance so I asked them to search for it. Search no more, here is the direct link, 5 parts of them about detail study on Linq to SQL performance.
