http://windows.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Windows en Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:29:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714364 unknown@DZone.com Introduction to WPF's MultiBinding. The tutorial includes full source code and easy-to-follow examples. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:29:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714364.nethow-toWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711523 unknown@DZone.com Microsoft Windows can start in a special mode known as "Safe Mode". In this mode, certain drivers are disabled and networking may not be available. If your software requires this missing functionality, problems may occur. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:51:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711523.nethow-toMicrosoftWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2710375 unknown@DZone.com The One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is evolving nicely. Take a look at its newest support for the MingW environment and what you gain from it. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:00:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2710375frameworksopen sourcerubyWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2700290 unknown@DZone.com The code-base that I am currently working with consists of a large set of binaries that are all signed. The savvy .NET devs out there will know that any assembly that’s used/referenced by a signed assembly must also be signed. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:21:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2700290.nethow-toWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2699779 unknown@ma.gnolia.com 7 cheat sheets to Google, Gmail, Google Reader, Windows, Mac OS X and Firefox for Windows and Mac. Saved By: Wolfsbane | View Details | Give Thanks Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2699779illustrationtutorialsreferenceinspirationresourcesphotoshopretouchusabilityuser-experienceDesignvectorfreevia:mento.inforadioheadcsswordpressSoftwaretrickstwitterweb designNone assignedcheat sheetGmailWindowsmac os x http://web2announcer.com/go/2698419 unknown@DZone.com Yet another use for Git: local repository, for local files (and local people). Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:50:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2698419open sourceopiniontoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2695803 unknown@DZone.com Following is a simple tutorial that will help you realize the power of this simple and most useful command. If you are on Windows and haven’t already, download and install Cygwin. If you are also new to regular expressions (regex), here is a great regular expressions reference to get you started with grep. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:27:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2695803how-tomethodologyunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2695163 unknown@DZone.com Java 5 has some nice features. In this article, we will discuss these features, and see how you can benefit from these. In Part-I we cover auto-boxing and foreach. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:41:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2695163javaWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2693862 unknown@DZone.com Windows® SteadyState™ 2.5 is now available on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet café, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them. 
 
 Windows SteadyState runs on genuine copies of Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Starter. And, Windows SteadyState is offered free of charge to Windows Genuine Advantage customers! Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:22:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2693862HardwareMicrosofttoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2693707 unknown@DZone.com Recently a blog post entitled “Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy has come across my feed-radar a few times. It’s yet another in the long line of “Linux ain’t ready yet” jeremiads and it doesn’t really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why? Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:40:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2693707Appleopinionunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2692447 unknown@DZone.com Why would somebody write bad code ? Ahh!! now we all know the reason. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:54:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2692447MicrosoftopinionstandardsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2691661 unknown@DZone.com Virtualization and cloud computing are disruptive technologies that threaten Microsoft and open up opportunities for Google, VMware, Apple and others. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:45:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2691661Microsoftopinionweb 2.0WindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2691258 unknown@DZone.com I am starting to research Windows Presentation Foundation for a demonstration that I am working on and one of the resources that I was pointed to was the 3 videos that I am linking to below. In addition to that, there are some Virtual Labs, provided by Microsoft, that look promising. After I’ve gone through them, I will post the ones that I think are descent (from my perspective). In the meantime, check out these videos, when you have some time, especially the first one, if you are a beginner on the subject like I am. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:49:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2691258.nethow-toMicrosoftWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2690539 unknown@DZone.com To a programmer, the text editor you use is not a matter of religion. It’s much stronger than that. It’s more like love — the initial excitement and the thrill of subsequently discovered features leads to a warm familiarity and intimate knowledge – the extreme comfort of working together to create something special. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:59:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2690539toolsunix-linuxusabilityWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2689862 unknown@DZone.com The conference agenda for Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 lists sessions that overview how Windows 7 will have native support for WCF and WPF features in presumably un-managed code. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2689862.netMicrosoftweb servicesWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2689676 unknown@DZone.com I know this is kind of old and obvious but any way I had the problem with paths that are not case sensitive on Windows but case sensitive on Linux. I hit this problem while I used grails controller with the name LearningCenterController and had my gsp pages in folder named learningcenter.
 
 Simple code from controller like this one: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:19:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2689676groovyunix-linuxweb 2.0WindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2687579 unknown@DZone.com yWorks is proud to announce availability of yFiles WPF 1.0 RC1, the first release candidate of the upcoming new diagramming class library for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that provides first-class analysis, automatic layout, and visualization of diagrams, networks, and graphs. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:09:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2687579.netannouncementWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2687582 unknown@DZone.com Ubuntu’s rise to power has been rapid, historic and well-deserved. It’s the best Linux distribution ever, but most people only use a fraction of its power. Award-winning Linux author Keir Thomas gets down and dirty with Ubuntu to provide over 300 concise tips that enhance productivity, avoid annoyances, and simply get the most from Ubuntu. You’ll find many unique tips here that can’t be found anywhere else. You’ll also get a crash course in Ubuntu’s flavor of system administration. Whether you’re new to Linux or an old hand, you’ll find tips to make your day easier. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:52:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2687582open sourceunix-linuxusabilityWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2679401 unknown@DZone.com Before doing Ruby full time I spent most of my days coding in C#. In those days C# wasn't quite as good as Java, but I did prefer the .net library. Visual Studio crashed, but not very often, and ReSharper made coding much less painful. I was developing on a Windows box, but I had never known any other development environment, so I didn't mind. I was happy. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:55:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2679401.netopinionWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2679413 unknown@DZone.com Given the number of developers using Subversion, I'm surprised that no one on my blogroll has mentioned the new Subversion clients released in the last few weeks. Subversion, TortoiseSVN, and VisualSVN have all synchronized their version numbers on v1.5. I'll talk about TortoiseSVN and Subversion changes. VisualSVN has some minor enhancements that basically expose the features introduced by Subversion 1.5. I'll leave you to investigate them yourself. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:29:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2679413open sourcetoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2679088 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Now you can install some of the KDE programs in Windows too. Saved By: Norbert Evenich | View Details | Give Thanks Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2679088tweetdecktwitterairappwebformssign-upuser experienceiconsdesktopwebdesignfreeDesignresourceinformationNone assignedflagcssamericachristopher schmittsubversionversion controlapplicationOSXinspirationKDEWindows http://web2announcer.com/go/2678853 unknown@DZone.com This is just a rant (hopefully it will be regarded as pertinent and non-'laming') on why Windows users try Linux and return frustrated to Windows after several hours or days. I won't praise Linux and the way it works, I won't even compare and say 'here Linux is easier because ...', instead I have a few questions for all of you who blame Linux for not being and behaving like Windows. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:50:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678853opinionunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2678272 unknown@DZone.com To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:37:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2678272MicrosoftNewsopen sourceWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674824 unknown@DZone.com Shows how to write a Skype extension using Visual C++, WTL and Boost. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:59:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674824c-and-cpphow-totoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668976 unknown@DZone.com If you are new to the world of .NET or looking for great Tips and Tricks, this is the place to go. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:47:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668976.netdatabasehow-toWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2668927 unknown@DZone.com Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by topic, which will make your coder life better. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:20:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2668927Appleopen sourceunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667679 unknown@DZone.com Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows. sshfs for Windows. Using mindTerm and NetDrive to mount a drive for a ssh/sftp connection. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:05:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667679javaopen sourcetoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2667018 unknown@DZone.com Thanks to Bill Gates. This post is a bio and timeline of the life of Bill Gates. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:44:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2667018MicrosoftopinionWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2664434 unknown@DZone.com Since the beginning of time Java applications have been battered with complaints about startup time, memory footprint, performance and security. Recently Sun started to address some of the issues by introducing the Consumer JRE. However, Excelsior JET is a product which provides their own spin on solving these problems. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:47:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2664434javaSecurityunix-linuxWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661642 unknown@DZone.com Bill gates ranting about Microsoft's Moviemaker experience. Gates: "I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues." Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661642NewsusabilityWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660860 unknown@DZone.com Well, yesterday it seems I broke my Vista Business install (still not quite sure how this happened, but it did). Instead of just reinstalling it, I decided to try installing Server 2008 and using it as “Super Desktop OS” Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:58:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660860how-toMicrosoftserverWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660447 unknown@DZone.com Windows activation reminder on an ATM screen. Ouch... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:45:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660447humorMicrosoftWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2660082 unknown@DZone.com Jeff Friesen begins a three-part series introducing three implementations of his Java-based animated cursor library, which extracts cursor images and other data from Windows-based .ani files and animates the cursors over Java components. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:17:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2660082guijavaWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2658578 unknown@DZone.com In .NET 2.0 and above the SyncRoot was removed from the Dictionary and Hastable classes which meant you can't create thread-safe versions of these anymore. So here I provide a simple implementation of a generic synchronised dictionary class that is thread-safe, this was developed in .NET 3.5 using the new Threading.ReaderWriterLockSlim class. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:14:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2658578.nethow-toWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655517 unknown@DZone.com Are you looking for Chinese font types? Here is a list of wonderful Chinese font types, download and copy them to c:WindowsFonts, then you can use these wonderful Chinese font types in your documents. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:23:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655517toolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2654127 unknown@DZone.com Came across this after learning that Microsoft created Asirra (see comment) in Python. I had no idea that MS thought so highly of Python.
 
 Page has scripts to play with AD, applications, the desktop, hardware, logs, networking, OS (COM/registry/services/updates/etc), printing, terminal services... Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:21:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2654127MicrosoftpythonserverWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651728 unknown@DZone.com I was making this WPF based application on weekends and wanted it to have a gel like look. I did not want to create a new control instead I wanted to make sure that I used WPF styles to change the look of the tab. I decided to share this experience so that anyone who wants to do this does not have to do any research. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:39:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651728how-toMicrosoftWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2651316 unknown@DZone.com When you try to use the Request.Browser.Crawler property in attempt to track search engine crawlers to your website built on IIS, but it always returns false even you can find the access is from search engine crawler in the IIS log files. This article presents you the solution to fix this problem. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:47:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2651316.netweb designWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2650077 unknown@DZone.com Yesterday I was browsing the Firefox addons directory looking for an addon that would notify me when I had mail with the old “You’ve got mail” sound like in the film “You’ve got mail” (ahhh, that film takes me back). Anyway, I came across a category for web developers so had a peek through and tried a few out. This list is a countdown of the top 10 addons that I think can really help you in your web designing. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:06:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2650077css-htmlother languagestoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649548 unknown@DZone.com Who doesn’t hate IE6? Sadly, developers have to deal with that obsolete browser due to the still important amount of people using it.
 Here is a small non-exhaustive list of html and Javascript codes that will totally crash IE.
 After all, this browser is such a pain for developers, that we have the right to avenge us from time to time;) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:31:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649548css-htmljavascriptWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647868 unknown@DZone.com Lately I’ve been trying to code an application which requires some form of natural handwriting recognition. Natural Handwriting is basically the way you write on your Tablet/Pocket PC/Palm/Mobile, either using a stylus on your touch-screen or on the desktop using mouse. And after looking at different options available for handwriting recognition, Windows beats every other operating system including Linux and Mac OSX hands down!! And sad because the application for which I’m developing this handwriting recognition module is a popular open-source kids software and mainly targeted towards Linux distros. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647868open sourceunix-linuxusabilityWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2645978 unknown@DZone.com In an attempt to break the world record for most downloads, the traffic generated reiked havoc on both mozilla’s main website as well as the spreadfirefox website. For a split second the main website went down and was showing an “http://1.1 Service Unavailable” error (Reminds me of the error seen on the US Amazon.com page a few weeks ago. For coverage on that outage check out this article.). It looks to be back up and was only down for a split second. At the time of this post the spread firefox website was still down. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:04:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645978open sourceWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2645664 unknown@DZone.com As we all know that our .NET code (C#, VB.NET etc) are converted into MSIL instructions which in turn are put into the assemblies. MSIL is a high level language, not as low as machine instructions, so it needs to converted into machine specific binary code or needs to be interpreted somehow. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:23:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645664.nethow-totoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2645187 unknown@DZone.com If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:55:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645187.nethow-toWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2645141 unknown@DZone.com In the first part of this article, I tried to define a Users & Favorites scenario and the things to keep in mind about Linq to SQL. In this post I’ll continue building that application and show its implementation in different tiers connected with WCF. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:15:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645141.netdatabasehow-toWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2644813 unknown@DZone.com And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:13:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2644813MicrosofttrendsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2643641 unknown@DZone.com Java Registry Wrapper is a free pure java library for performing common windows registry functions. It provides the following functionalities.
 
 1. Opening Registry Keys
 2. Create Registry Keys
 3. Delete Registry Keys
 4. Enumerate Sub Keys
 5. Enumerate Registry Values
 6. Write/Update Registry Values. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643641how-tojavaopen sourceWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2643208 unknown@DZone.com Java Registry Wrapper was inspired by link posted on DZONE(http://lenkite.blogspot.com/2008/05/access-windows-registry-using-java.html) about accessing windows registry from pure java code. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:39:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2643208javaopen sourcetoolsWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2636649 unknown@DZone.com So far, it's been a bad year for Windows Service Pack updates. Vista users might remember the endless reboot cycles that came with the initial release of its Service Pack 1. Well, the same issues have been cropping up since Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. This article will go over what's causing this problem, how to avoid it, and how to fix it if it happens to you. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:18:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636649MicrosoftWindowsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634559 unknown@DZone.com I've never seen this bugs before . These bugs are really interesting and magical as well. Let's hope microsoft's programmers will solve these bugs very soon. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:08:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634559css-htmlhumorphpWindowsProgramming