Software

I work for Microsoft now

David Vidmar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:27 GMT

It’s been quiet around here and for a good reason. As I hinted before there has been many changes in my life recently. In same week I became father for second time (father of three boys now, twins and a new baby!), finally finished my engineer’s degree and finally, I joined the ranks of best company in the world to work for – Microsoft.

I’ll be working as I consultant for Biztalk Server and Forefront Identity Manager and from time to time a Dynamics CRM consultant.

So, what can you expect? Occasional dry stints, lots of BTS and FIM links, Windows Phone 7, Azure and Windows 8 and other cool Microsoft stuff.

If you are fellow Microsoftie, please look me up and drop me a note – let’s connect!

Windows Homer Server 2011 is finally available on MSDN and TechNet!

David Vidmar — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:57:49 GMT

If you haven’t noticed, WHS 2011 is finally available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers!

Gentlemen, start your downloads and clear your schedule for the big reinstall!

HitriSMS

David Vidmar — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:51:11 GMT

[For Slovenian / Mobitel users only]

HitriSMS je minimalističen program za pošiljanje SMS sporočil. Deluje podobno kot M:Namiznik, vendar hitreje, enostavneje in bolj elegantno.

Namestitev in uporaba

Prenesi ga in shrani na poljubno mesto. Razpakiraj in si že gotov/a - namestitev ni potrebna!

Ko ga boš prvič pognal/a, te bo vprašal za prijavo. Zavij na https://moj.mobitel.si in se prijavi. Kot uporabniško ime vpiši svojo GSM številko, geslo pa ti Mobitel pošlje po SMS.

Za nekaj namigov kako ga lahko program učinkovito uporabiš, klikni na "'?". Jaz ga uporabljam tako, da ga poženem s kombinacijo tipko Win+F12 in tako ga lahko prikličem res hitro. Uporabljam AutoHotKey, lahko pa podobno narediš na veliko načinov.

Še dve opozorili

deluje samo, če si naročnik Mobitela;
pošiljanje ni brezplačno, ampak ima sporočilo enako ceno, kot če SMS pošlješ s telefona, saj pošiljaš preko svojega računa pri Mobitelu.

Prenesi HitriSMS 1.0

Slovenian Apple Developers – www.razvijalci.si

David Vidmar — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:03:43 GMT

From Jabolko.org team comes a nice place with a list of all Slovenian iOS developers and their products.

Great idea, I wonder when and who will do the same for Android fans. That would be useful!

Using Google Apss and still waiting for Priority Inbox feature?

David Vidmar — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:02:25 GMT

Using Google Apss and still waiting for Priority Inbox feature?

Just go to http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html, and click Sign in here for Google Apps users.

You’ll get it immediately!

Syncing Visual Studio settings

David Vidmar — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:12:25 GMT

I finally took time and figure out how to keep Visual Studio settings in sync across different machines (work, laptop, home, virtual,…) as I really grew tired of importing color schemes and fixing mixed up shortcut keys. Bonus is, you get easy backup of your most important settings which you will love next time you reinstall your machine!

Actually this is really simple task. What you’ll need is some kind of syncing program, I currently run DropBox, but I believe Live Sync would also work. Same procedure works for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Might also work with previous version, but I don’t have them installed, so I can’t check.

First, export your settings into a file. I choose to sync only color and font setting and keyboard settings.

Documentation says you should put this file on UNC share and use it from different computers. But nothing is stopping you from syncing it over the internet! Save exported settings file in a folder you will sync across computers, so in my case this is somewhere under “My Dropbox”.

Then, in Visual Studio use “Team Settings” feature in Options / Environment / Import and Export Settings.

What is does is, every time you lunch Visual Studio, it’ll check timestamp of .vssettings file and if it is updates, it will apply settings from that file! Done!

Just remember: If you change and of your synced settings on any machine and you would like to use those changes across all computers, you should manually export settings again!

Another tip… Use different file for different Visual Studio versions. I run 2008 and 2010, so I have SharedSettings and SharedSettings_2008 files synced.

Site troubles

David Vidmar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:50:31 GMT

This site has been experiencing technical difficulties in last couple of days. As far as I can see, it’s been some hackers playground. Things are returning to normal.

Thank you all for your patience.

13,000+ Free Icons for Web and Desktop Development

David Vidmar — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:37:20 GMT

I finally went through my icons collection and this is linked list of free icon libraries I use for development. Most of icons are suitable for web and desktop development, lately I use them for Dynamics CRM development.

I keep all icons in their own folder and use file search when I need specific icons.

Here is the list… If you have other suggestions, let me know!

Updates:

2010-08-10 Update: Added ”Boolean” pack.

ASP.NET Icons
390 icons, 16x16, GIF
http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/Free_Downloads.asp?id=63

Acxialis – Web Mini, Part 1
267 icons, 16x16, PNG, GIF or ICO
http://www.axialis.com/free/icons/

Boolean
111 icons, 16x16, PNG
http://prax-08.deviantart.com/art/Boolean-1-1-166457851

Diagona
400 icons, 16x16 and 10x10, PNG
http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

FamFamFam – Silk Icons
1000 icons, 16x16, PNG
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

FamFamFam – Flag Icons
247, 16x16, PNG and GIF
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/

FamFamFam – Mini
144, 16x16, GIF
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/mini/

FatCow - Farm Fresh Web Icons
1400 icons, 16x16 and 32x32, PNG
http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons/

Fugue Icons
6000+ icons, 16x16, PNG
http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

Gallery 2 Icons
77 icons, 20x16, GIF
http://paularmstrongdesigns.com/projects/gallery-2-icons/

LED Icons Set
500+ icons, 16x16, PNG
http://led24.de/

Mini Pixel Icons
320 icons, 14x14, GIF
http://icondock.com/free/mini-pixel-icons

SplashyIcons
483 icons, 16x16, PNG
http://splashyfish.com/icons/

Tango Icon Library
645 icons, 16x16, 22x22, 32x32, PNG
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library

TwoTiny + Expansion Pack
121 icons, 16x16, GIF
http://code.google.com/p/twotiny/

Vaga
60 icons, 16x16, PNG
http://www.tenbytwenty.com/products/icon-sets/vaga

Free Web Design Icons Set
310 icons, 16x16, PNG
http://semlabs.co.uk/journal/free-web-design-icon-set

Xiao Icon
72 icons, 16x16, PNG
http://www.ineversay.com/my-works/xiao-icon.html

TVvSPOREDnik

David Vidmar — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:16:48 GMT

For those who care, TVvSPOREDnik is back in business. I had to fix screen scraping code and POP TV and Kanal A are shown again. Sorry for the delay.

Yes, you CAN try Google Chrome OS today!

David Vidmar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:02 GMT

If you go to gdgt you can download compiled version of Chrome OS pre-release in shape of virtual machine.

Don’t expect too much, since it’s quite unstable, slow and it freezes a lot. If I didn’t miss anything it’s just Chrome browser that boots on it’s own. So, it’s far from XP/Vista/7 killer for now.

So what would you rather do? Read more about Crome OS or try for yourself?

Here are quick instructions for running Chrome OS in VirtualBox:

Download and install VirtualBox or upgrade to latest version if you have it installed. If you have VMware, even better.
Download Chrome OS VMware image (don’t bother with VirtualBox image, it doesn’t work for many and it didn’t work for me).
Create new machine and

attach existing VMDK image as primary hard drive,
give it 1 GB of RAM,
leave network as it is (NAT),
give video card more RAM, I simply went with max - 128 MB.

Boot it! It should be up in seconds.
Login with Google Account.

If you get “wrong password” error message, remember that you have US keyboard!
If you get “no network” error message, turn network off/on, reboot and it will eventually start working.