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Friday, 20 February 2009

I hate unmanaged code!

Just tried to install yet another application that I would have loved to have used - unfortunately it's written in unmanaged code and they haven't developed the 64bit version yet!

Unless you are writing truly cross-platform apps or you need something that can count in billionths of a millisecond then please use a managed framework.

No-one's impressed that you can 'handle' C++ and you're not fooling anyone that your situation warrants a 'pure' language.

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

IE8 - another triumph!?

I recently updated IE7 to IE8 Beta 2 with the hope that Microsoft had managed to improve the load performance. Unfortunately not :(. Compared with Chrome's ability to 'new up' a tab IE is truly pitiful.

To make matters worse IE8 has now developed a fault. Whenever I open a link it decides to copy it to a new window... and another ... and another... you get the idea! Luckily it's so slow at creating these new entities that I have more than enough time to close my work and reboot!!!

Can the guys at Google please hurry up and make Chrome work with Sharepoint please? Then I could finally ditch the MS offering.