August 2008 - Posts

• Vista Defrag Woefully Inadequate - Enter O&O Defrag

  Being rather new to Vista this week, I was sorely disappointed to see the severely dumbed down defrag utility in Vista. A pathetic effort. Really! So after a few highly scientific Google searches, I settled on O&O Defrag and could not be happier.... Posted Aug 23 2008, 02:43 PM by tsJensen.com - My Technology Blog Filed under: Commentary

• From XP Pro to Vista Ultimate x64

  I finally took the plunge. Now I get to use 4GB out of 4GB except that the bare minimum I seem to be able to get Vista x64 down to is a 1.2GB footprint. And that's after hours and hours of experimentation and disabling some visual enhancements, though... Posted Aug 20 2008, 07:54 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Virtual PC 2007 vs VMWare Workstation 6.5

  I'm getting ready to do some serious MOSS 2007 architecture and development work. In the past, I've used Virtual PC 2007 to host a virtual development environment running a Windows server operating system, SQL Server, MOSS and Visual Studio all... Posted Aug 18 2008, 09:07 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• MSDN Subscription - Zupancic Heroic MVP

  Props, kudos, and thanks a million to my good friend Aaron Zupancic , one of Microsoft's most valuable MVPs. Last week I pinged him to ask his opinion about a site I'd found adversting an VS 2008 Pro MSDN Pro 2 year sub for $999. It was a decent... Posted Aug 11 2008, 10:57 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Personal

• ASP.NET MVC Making Web Development Fun Again

  I want to thank Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman and the whole ASP.NET MVC team for making web development fun again. The simplicity of Rails, the power of .NET, and so much more. I've been reading the posts and watching some of the screencasts but... Posted Aug 04 2008, 07:03 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Code