Roughly a month ago, VMware released a new major version of its Workstation (and Fusion) software (i.e. 7.0 (and 3.0, respectively)). So, it seemed like a good time to upgrade from version 6.5.3. Past protocol suggested the following approach: uninstall old, reboot, and install new. Unfortunately, and unexpectedly, this approach failed to result in an [...]
Entries from November 29th, 2009
Submitting VMware Workstation 7 to install
November 29th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology
Tags:installation·troubleshooting·VMware·VMware Workstation 7
PDF from Confluence
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Content management, Development Toolbox
Atlassian’s Confluence software offers a decent collaboration canvas in the form of an enterprise wiki. For example, Confluence can support the practice of “living and active” specifications (instead of, for example, obsolete-once-authored-in-Word specs). Often, though, it’s good to have a more self-contained snapshot in hand (e.g. increase traceability from one review-based state to another, support [...]
Tags:Confluence·export·PDF
More complete PDC09 downloader-renamer
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology
First of all, I want to thank Mike Swanson (@anyware) for his original work (e.g. for MIX09 and also for PDC09). Good stuff. That being said, I noticed that there were posted sessions missing–six altogether–from the 11/19/2009-dated batch files here; so, I thought I’d post my “fix”: PDC09DownloaderCSR.zip PDC09RenamerCSR.zip It may be worth noting that [...]
Tags:automation·downloader·Microsoft·PDC·PDC09·renamer·sessions
Suggestions to improve conference scheduling
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Ideas, Lessons
So, I finally was able to complete my PDC sessions scheduling. It was a bit more “involved” then I expected, and I have a few suggestions for, in this case, Microsoft as they prepare for future conferences: Enable Outlook (ICS-based) scheduling sooner Include the online session home page as a link in the ICS file [...]
