I was reading the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview release notes, and was happy to see that SVG is listed among its supported features. It’s one of those features that have been dubiously missing from previous versions of the browser. This has forced many developers to opt for VML when rendering to Internet Explorer, which … [Read more…]
I was recently asked by a colleague if it was possible to run a 64-bit guest operating system on a 32-bit host. The question was specifically geared towards running Windows 2008 R2, via VMware Player, on Windows XP. Yes you should definitely be able to run a 64-bit virtual machine on a 32-bit host like … [Read more…]
I’ve been reading the High Scalability blog quite a bit lately. After reading several articles over the past couple of weeks, I’m wondering where are all the web startups that are using the Microsoft stack? I believe .NET is a very productive platform on which a successful web-based product can be built, and I really … [Read more…]
Although I had more than enough room remaining on the 250GB Serial ATA drive that came with my MacBook Pro, I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500GB 7200 RPM drive. My main reason for doing this is that I wanted a faster drive, since the previous drive ran at 5400 RPM. After … [Read more…]