Archive for April, 2007

Tech-Ed content for all

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Microsoft will open up Tech Ed content to non-attendees. So far it’s broken into Webcasts, Virtual Labs and Podcasts. I have to say I’ve been impressed with the increased quality and quantity of Microsoft’s free developer training materials over the last couple of years.

Online on the range

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

The most “wired” states (by one measure at least) are all rural:

The top five states that are online are also all largely rural: Alaska (72%), New Hampshire (70%), Utah (70%), Minnesota (69%) and Wyoming (68%). The USA national average is 59%.

Less populous states also have a higher density of entrepreneurs. These figures all make sense, but could be easily ignored/forgotten from my Silicon Valley/Bay Area tech cocoon.

Google (or other search engine) feature request

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Who knows? Maybe this already exists, but any search engine that could provide this would make me (and I am guessing MILLIONS more) very happy.

Basically - instead of searching for text, allow me to CutNPaste an error dialog. This will save me a lot of time from transcribing (common) error messages, and will probably provide more accurate search results. For example, this dialog:

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I’m sure many others have seen this exact error dialog, and there are proably 2-3 simple solutions. Google, take me away!