VSTS Virtual Labs
RegisterI got this link from our Microsoft Regional Developer Evangelist. It looks interesting, but I haven’t had a chance to try it out. If you complete one of the labs, please let me know what you think in the comments.
++Alan
Really Big Files on a CDR
Microsoft provides development
releases early and often, now. This is great because I get to see
what’s coming while it is being developed. This is part of
Microsoft’s drive toward transparancy, and it is a good thing.
The problem is that I don’t want to test these unstable releases on my
work PC because, you know, I, like, make my living using that
machine. As a result, I want to install them at home, where it
would be annoying if they broke something, but I could continue to pay
the rent.
Seems simple, right? I just take the file home and install
it. Well, that’s the catch. I can’t just take the file
home, because it is often a DVD image file, and I don’t have a DVD
burner at work. (Incidently, I bought a dual layer burner for my
home PC, but have you seen the price of dual layer media?) Now
along comes Jason with a terrific solution. It’s called Free File Splitter,
and it is exactly what its name promises. It’s free and it
splits files. Not only that, but it provides a batch file to
re-assemble the original file once all the fragments are copied to the
hard drive. Sweet!
++Alan
Totally Cool Firefox Extension
I have used the Image Zoom
extension in Firefox for many months. This week I downloaded an
update using the friendly Firefox update feature. It was only
today that I “discovered” an exciting new feature. If I hover my
mouse over an image in Firefox and scroll the mouse wheel, the image
zooms in or out depending on the direction I scroll.
Totally cool!
++Alan
