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New environment variable dialog
We recently had some feedback from customers telling us that they were dealing with legacy applications that were configured using large numbers of environment variables […]
Microsoft Surface RT, my first month
Introduction On the 1st January 2013 I purchased a Microsoft Surface RT. I purchased the 64GB version that comes with the touch cover. I didn’t […]
Problems with slow shutdown, slow install
There is a problem with recent versions of our software released prior to 5 December 2012. Problem description The problem is that some people will […]
Ogilvy Lab Day
Friday 26 October 2012 was Ogilvy Lab Day, held at Ravensbourne next to the O2 Arena, London, UK. I apologise if any details are incorrect […]
The sedentary life of the software business
Software is great isn’t it? Configurable, flexible, modifiable, bend it to any shape you want. In short it’s very very useful. It also causes you […]
Herding cats with the BOS Big Band
Yesterday I had the honour to play with the Business of Software big band at the conference party in the Julep Bar, Boston, MA. The […]
UX Improvements for Coverage Validator
We recently released new versions of the Coverage Validator tools for all languages. The main reason for this release was to make the tools more […]
“cannot open type library file” error on x64 systems
I’ve just tried building a Visual Studio 2010 helper DLL on Windows 7 x64. The build failed with “cannot open type library file vsmso.olb : […]
x64 Porting gotcha #3. Serializing collections
When Microsoft ported MFC to 64 bits they also changed the return type for the GetSize() and GetCount() methods in the collection classes. They changed […]
Communication
Are you any good at communication? Thats a good question. If you’re like me, you probably think you are not good at communication. You may […]