Category Archives: Etc

Code reviews

[OSNews, via Coding Horror] At WiX night, code reviews never include the phrase WTF. Well, almost never…

Installing Windows 7 beta from a USB stick

I’m enjoying the Windows 7 beta – I’ve installed it on four machines so far. (That’s four more than the last beta OS I had the opportunity to install.) I’ve done two installs from DVD, one from network boot (via Windows Deployment Services), and my most recent install was my first from USB media. My [...]

Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 betas now available on MSDN

Get ‘em here. If you’re not an MSDN (or TechNet) subscriber, they’ll be available for the masses on Friday. Check The Windows Blog for details. No sign yet of a matching Windows SDK, which will come in handy to figure out the new MSI 5.0 features…

.NET gets a new logo

Via Scott Hanselman comes the announcement that we should "Embrace the new .NET Logo!" So I think we need to make sure WiX runs on both .NET and .ÑET. Or is that ~.NET? And is that "approximately .NET" or "NOT .NET"?

I voted; did you?

Thanks to the State of Washington’s Vote by Mail program, I was able to vote today and therefore feel 100 percent guilt-free about (continuing to) fast-forward through political ads on my Media Center. A $0.42 poll tax is well worth avoiding the road-rage-y SUV drivers at the junior high school that serves as my polling [...]