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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!

MSDN Donwload Manager

David Vidmar — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:35:05 GMT

Why is that, with every version, MSDN Download Manager travels through time few years, design wise?

We are currently somewhere around Delphi 1.0 time.

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!

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

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.

Slovenia on Bing

David Vidmar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:10:56 GMT

From time to time I use Bing for searching and couple of days ago I was pleasantly surprised to see image from Slovenia featured as a background.

It’s taken in Triglav National Park, more precisely somewhere around Trenta.

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WordPress email configuration on Windows/IIS

David Vidmar — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:52:27 GMT

WordPress is a breeze to install if you have PHP any MySQL in place. On Windows/IIS there are two dark holes, though.

One is URL rewriting and the other is sending email about comments, forgotten passwords etc. Let’s talk about the second one today.

If you enable SMTP email sending in php.ini you are halfway there. But there is a good chance SMTP server will not accept your email if the mailbox is not local, since WordPress sends email from hardcoded address wordpress@<your-domain>. Also, this will not work if your SMTP server requires authentication.

All this can be easily solved with Configure SMTP WP plugin. This plugin lets you configure SMTP sending details and even lets you use Gmail servers for sending mails. As usual, installation is dead simple, after you do it you just configure SMTP server details and it just works.

Free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate

David Vidmar — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:18:22 GMT

I was pleasantly surprised today, when I found out I’m eligible for free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate as a beta tester.

Although I didn’t report any bugs, I was granted a retail license key and a download of x86 and x64 version of Windows 7.

That’s just great! Thank you, Microsoft!

After installing Windows 7 of my wife’s laptop and couple machine at work, I’m more than convinced that Microsoft did few things right and Windows 7 will be a great system for years to come. I’ll repave my main home machine in couple of days.

Windows 7 RTM on MSDN/TechNet

David Vidmar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:33:18 GMT

Gentlemen, start you downloads! Windows 7 RTM is available for download on MSDN and TechNet.

I haven’t seen Windows Server 2008 R2 yet.