A Simple PowerPoint Painkiller
Now here is an unlikely blog post! Clemens writes VBA snippets for PowerPoint!
There’s one problem that bugs everyone who is doing lots of presentations with PowerPoint at conferences and has to adjust the slides to whatever the respective conference’s PowerPoint template is: Color Schemes. Color Schemes are quite nice when you are in control of whatever your templates are, but if you must comply with someone else’s taste for color combinations or...
Visual Studio Overload And The Specialization Gamble
My blogging efforts this year aren’t really impressive, are they? Well, the first half of the year I was constantly on the road at a ton of conferences and events and didn’t really get the time to blog much. After TechEd Europe, I was simply burned out, took three weeks of vacation to recover somewhat and since then I’ve been trying to get some better traction with areas of Visual Studio that I...
TechEd Europe 2005 Demo Source Code
I am technically on vacation now and for the following 2 1/2 weeks, so I’ve been a little slow posting this. Below is the link to the source code archive for my TechEd Europe 2005 talks on transactions and asynchronous messaging. The “newtelligence.TechEdTools” assembly with the message queue listener and the WSE and ASMX transports for MSMQ is essentially the same as the one I posted after TechEd US, but there is now...
“Software Patent” Insanity
I spent yesterday in Brussels at the European Parliament. I attended session at a conference and had the opportunity to speak to a few members of the European Parliament and chatting with the press. As you might know, next week the parliament votes on the EU Directive in Computer Implemented Inventions, which is supposed to regulate how and which computer-implemented inventions shall become patentable in the European Union. More precisely, the directive really...
“All for this one moment”
“All for this one moment” is Lufthansa’s marketing tagline for FlyNet, their in-flight Internet service. One of the ads reads (I don’t have the exact wording right so, so I paraphrase) “Read your email or cheer about the goal in the 92th minute”. Now… that with the goal is of course an issue, because how could you possibly see it? Sure, there are live text tickers on...