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Submitting VMware Workstation 7 to install

November 29th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Silverlight 3

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Smart clients, Technology

Today Silverlight 3 officially launched; so, I decided to cut-over to v3 from v2. Here’s what worked for me: Ensure that all browsers are closed before proceeding. Open the Control Panel to begin uninstalling older Silverlight 2-related software. Select “Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – ENU” and uninstall the older IDE integration. [...]

EMC Documentum Developer Edition

May 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Content management, DFS, Development Toolbox, Services, Technology

Today we launched a new EMC Documentum developer-oriented community within the EMC Community Network. Front and center is the new developer edition of the EMC Documentum ECM Platform. So, what does this developer edition include? We believe it includes a lot of goodness for the development of content-enabled applications. First of all, free software for [...]