When remote desktop does not connect: changing Windows DNS setttings remotely

By tim, on July 18th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

This was an annoying. I tried to remote desktop into my Hyper-V Server today and could not. The message:

Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer.

Hmm. I typed:

net time \\myhypervbox

and it was

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SQL Server 2011 Denali publishes tables as Windows network folders

By tim, on July 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been testing the new Community Tech Preview of SQL Server 2011, codenamed “Denali”.

Here is an intriguing feature. You can now create a new kind of table called a FileTable. A FileTable is mapped to a folder on the filesystem, though you are not meant to access it directly once it is managed

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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 will have cross-platform compilation

By tim, on July 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

A Google search for RAD Studio XE2, presumably the successor to RAD Studio XE which includes Delphi, Delphi Prism (for .NET), C++ Builder and RAD PHP, throws up the following page:

The actual links need a login for a closed beta unfortunately.

Hmm, what caught my eye is the entry for cross-platform

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Adobe releases 64-bit Flash Player 11 beta, AIR 3 with packager for Windows, Mac, Android

By tim, on July 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. The AIR release is of limited interest since as yet there is no public SDK; Adobe mainly wants to test compatibility. That said, the announcement describes a key new feature, the ability to package AIR applications as standalone executables on Windows,

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Google+, Bing social search, and internet monopolies

By tim, on July 12th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The big new thing in social media right now is Google+, the search giant’s latest attempt to grab a slice of the social internet from Facebook and Twitter. I have been trying it for a few days and like everyone else have enjoyed playing with circles, the ability to categorise contacts into groups and

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Embarcadero promises Delphi everywhere: Mac, iOS this year, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone to follow

By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I noticed the following remark from Embarcadero’s David Intersimone regarding Delphi, its application builder based on Pascal.

We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next 5 years. Today you can use Delphi for Desktop, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, Cloud, Web, Web Services (REST and SOAP). This year you will also be

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Google Plus demands your location on iPhone, iPad and mobile devices – but you still have control

By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week I signed up for Google + (you can find me here), and one of first things I tried was to sign in on an Apple iPad.

I was annoyed to see the following message:

Google demanded the right to use my location with Google Plus, otherwise it would not let me

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Hands on debugging an Azure application – what to do when it works locally but not in the cloud

By tim, on July 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been writing a Facebook application hosted on Microsoft Azure. I hit a problem where my application worked fine on the local development fabric, but failed when deployed to Azure. The application was not actually crashing; it just did not work as expected. Specifically, either the Facebook authentication or the ASP.NET Forms Authentication

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The frustration of developing for Facebook with C#

By tim, on July 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am researching a piece on developing for Facebook with Microsoft Azure, and of course the first thing I did was to try it out.

It is not easy. The first problem is that Facebook does not care about C#. There are four SDKs on offer: JavaScript, Apple iOS, Google Android, and PHP. This

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