Security errors when developing for Windows Mobile

By tim, on August 19th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

One of the first things I tried with my Samsung i600 was to start up Visual Studio 2005, start a new Windows Mobile 6.0 application (I upgraded my i600 to WM6), and attempt to debug it on the device. Note that before you do this you have to install the appropriate SDK.

If you

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The Samsung i600 and Windows Mobile

By tim, on August 19th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been looking for a new Smartphone for a while, and decided to try the Samsung i600, a Windows Mobile device with strong connectivity (GPRS,Bluetooth,UMTS,HSDPA,wi-fi) and a tiny QWERTY keyboard. It is not a touch screen, which to me is a good thing in a mobile phone. I’ve not tried the finger-driven iPhone yet,

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Word 2007 bug: ask for RTF, get DOCX

By tim, on August 14th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve twice encountered what appears to be an intermittent bug in Word 2007. When I submit articles for publication, I usually choose RTF format, because it is universally readable. It is not perfect for exchanging formatted documents, since there are many variations of RTF and new tags appear with each new version of Word, but

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Microsoft’s Vista update – SP1 by another name?

By tim, on August 10th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve installed Microsoft’s two new Vista patches - one for reliability, and the other for performance. No ill-effects so far and in fact the OS does feel a bit snappier. The updates claim to fix some long-standing gripes, including this one:

When you copy or move a large file, the “estimated time remaining” takes a long

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PC Pro on its pointless cover CDs

By tim, on August 10th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

You have to admire a magazine which runs an editorial dismissing its own cover-mounted CD as “that wretched disc.”

So says Dick Pountain in the October 2007 issue of PC Pro. He says in his column that the only reason PC Pro continues to have a cover-mount CD or DVD is because its competitors do,

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Netcraft: IIS gaining on Apache

By tim, on August 6th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s web server is grabbing market share from the open source Apache, according to Netcraft’s August 2007 survey.

In November 2005, Apache was found on 71 percent of web sites, putting it more than 50 percentage points ahead of Microsoft IIS (20.2 percent). At the time, Apache’s market share advantage seemed insurmountable. But less

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ThoughtWorks Mingle: is JRuby always this slow?

By tim, on August 6th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve set up ThoughtWorks Mingle on Ubuntu 7.04.

No significant problems so far, though a couple of observations. The system requirements are substantial – 2GHz processor, 2GB RAM – which is OK for a new server, but rules out ideas like installing on a VM on the Internet.

It’s easy to see the reason

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Amazon FPS – is this the micropayment revolution?

By tim, on August 3rd, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon.com has announced the beta release of the Flexible Payment Service, an addition to the range of web services which already includes on-demand computing (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Simple Storage (Amazon S3).

At first glance, this looks like big news for the Internet. It bears all the Amazon hallmarks: low price, developer-friendly, and easy to

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BBC iPlayer is a bit of a mess, sadly

By tim, on August 1st, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC is widening its iPlayer beta and I got an invitation to try the service. It has not been a good experience so far, for all sorts of reasons.

I understand the DRM issues that make this Windows-only for the time being, but that doesn’t explain why Vista is not supported. The system

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