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• Joel Spolsky and his Martian headsets

  In a recent blog post Joel writes about the start of the mother of all flamewars with Microsofts IE8 team write in the middle of it. It's a great article that goes into some of the difficulties faced by standards and software. Unsure where the Martian... Posted Apr 01 2008, 09:50 AM by Dave Mellors with | with no comments Filed under: software, web development, standards, browsers

• Change Microsoft Office 2007 product key

  I recently installed Office 2007 on my laptop with the wrong product key and found instructions on Microsofts knowledge base for resetting the key but they didn't work. After 15 minutes of faffing around it eventually occurred to me that the registry... Posted Apr 30 2007, 09:37 AM by Dave Mellors with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: software, office 2007

• Profiling managed .Net framework plugins

  One of the applications I support is called ANTS Profiler which provides performance and memory profiling for managed code. A few times recently I have had customers ask about profiling plugins and although I knew it was possible I wasn't entirely sure... Posted Mar 27 2007, 05:54 PM by Dave Mellors with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, software, Red Gate Software, Technical Support

• The IT Technical Support essential software list

  Whenever I move to a new PC these items of software tend to move with me. Take a look at the list and let me know if there are any others I should have in my software toolbox. The IT Technical Support essential software list Share this post: email it... Posted Mar 25 2007, 11:01 PM by Dave Mellors with | with no comments Filed under: software, Technical Support

• Microsoft Fiddler Powertoy - HTTP debugger

  For HTTP debugging I've used a number of tools and I'm surprised how often I come across web developers who don't use one. The idea is simple, all browser http requests pass through a proxy that records the requests and responses so that they... Posted Nov 02 2006, 11:40 PM by Dave Mellors with | with no comments Filed under: software, debug, web development

• Telerik r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET

  I've been using Telerik r.a.d.controls for ASP.NET for a couple of years now and I have got to say that the controls are great, the support is fantastic and they listen to suggestions and are willing to integrate them into their products. The r.a... Posted Nov 01 2006, 05:37 AM by Dave Mellors with | with no comments Filed under: ASP.NET, review, software, telerik, controls