Anyone Want To Beta Test Scorpio?
Since he asked so nicely, how could I possibly say no?
Monthly Archives: January 2007
TortoiseSVN Lightning Talk slides
Here are my slides from my Lightning Talk on TortoiseSVN from today’s PSU Web Developers’ Lunch:
Quick and Dirty Change Tracking with TortoiseSVN
The last slide has several links to additional resources.
If you want the longer version, here’s my full 60-minute slide set from the Penn State Web 2006 Conference:
Web File Version Control with Subversion
The slides are in S5 format — an open slide show system based entirely in Web Standards: XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Outlook 2007 to use MS Word to render HTML…. ugh
Talk about a step backwards. In a recent announcement, Microsoft has shared its plans to have Outlook 2007 use Word’s HTML rendering engine in place of Internet Explorer’s engine.
Now, I’m not really a fan of HTML email — I generally select plain text format for any mailing lists to which I might subscribe if I have the choice — but I think it does have a place in business. Some e-newsletters are very well done, such as Musician’s Friend or Marketing Sherpa.
But if you’re going to send HTML mail, at least you could be efficient and use CSS and Web Standards to their full potential. We’ve made great strides in the past few years moving away from presentational markup, inappropriate table tags, spacer gifs, and FrontPage-esqe code cruft in Web pages. Email support for rich content has always lagged a bit behind browser support, but now we’re looking to take a huge leap backwards.
With Outlook’s massive install base, this change is pretty much the same as if Microsoft were to declare that IE 8 would use the awful HTML engine from WebTV.
First Look at VMWare Fusion Beta for OS X
VMWare has finally released the promised version of their virtualization product for OS X:
http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/fusion/
I got the email notice about its availability just before the holidays, but I only got around to playing with it this week.
So far it seems to be a bit behind Parallels Desktop in features. I love the Private Networking feature in Parallels… I can have my VMs share a secret virtual network segment, keeping my Windows server VMs protected from prying eyes or probes when on public wireless networks. I haven’t found anything like that in VMWare Fusion.
If they’re going to catch up with Parallels, given the new beta features they’ve got their work cut out for them. They’ve had drag-n-drop file copy in VMWare for a while, though.