A Quick Look at Log Parser

This morning I was alerted to the fact that one of our clients was having problems with our application last night. Unfortunately, none of their end users had captured any of the error messages. I checked the SQL and Windows Event logs but found nothing helpful. Then I had a look in into the IIS

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Ready for Internet Explorer 9?

Microsoft has taken their pledge to faster releases of Internet Explorer to heart. Internet Explorer 9 isn’t released yet, but if you want to kick the tires and take a test drive… Go get it!

Speaking of “Faster Release”, by Microsoft’s numbers this thing is already performs much better at the JavaScript benchmark tests. And hey,

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SQL Server Mgmt Studio Templates

Here’s a little feature that has been shown to me multiple times over the years. Every time I see it I get all excited by the possibilities — then (sadly) quickly forget it. This time I hope that by writing it down I’ll remember longer… Enjoy the pictures!

It turns out that SQL Server Management Studio

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Sysinternals Disk2vhd Announced

The Sysinternals folks today announced a new utility called Disk2vhd. As you might guess from the name, it creates a virtual hard drive from a running machine.

So, just as you could use VMware vCenter Converter to create VMware images of live machines, you can now do the same for Microsoft’s Hyper-V or Virtual PC.

Some interesting

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Microsoft Web-related News

There were a couple of big announcements from Microsoft this week, both of interest to web developers and/or users of the MS web stack. Without further ado…

WebsiteSpark (info PDF)

If you’re a small firm (less than 10 folks) focused on  Web dev and design, you may qualify for a boatload of “free” MS licenses. In return,

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