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Finnish Imagine Cup

Wednesday I was mentoring the four teams that have been selected for the Finnish final of Imagine Cup Software Design. All of the teams had different and, in my opinion, quite compelling ideas. Me and other mentors gave feedback on how they could improve Read More

posted Friday, May 01, 2009 4:19 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Students, Technology

Boot from VHD

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Windows-7-Boot-from-VHD/ Read More

posted Monday, March 16, 2009 2:48 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Technology, Windows 7

Installing Live Mesh to Windows Server 2008

I have been trying to install Live Mesh several times to my Windows Server 2008 -based workstation, but it keeps failing by claiming that the install is forbidden by system policy. Well, I took the time to actually look at the link the error message provided, Read More

posted Friday, January 16, 2009 4:11 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Technology

Photosynth grows up

A new version of Photosynth has finally been released at http://photosynth.net. The major change to the previous releases is that anyone can now upload their own sets of images to be processed ("synthed") by the service. A very early preview Read More

posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:48 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Photography, Technology

Finnish Imagine Cup Software Design winners

Team Perfect Hit from Evtek was selected as the Imagine Cup winners for Software Design category earlier today. Congratulations! Stenka said that the event video coverage will be live at www.codezone.fi shortly. Read More

posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:34 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Students, Academic, Technology, Events

Finnish Imagine Cup finals today

I will attend the Finnish Imagine Cup finals in a few hours. Looking forward to see what the four competing software design teams have come up with! Read More

posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:26 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Students, Academic, Technology, Events

.NET vNext: modeling required

I have wondered a few times with Ahti what is the next big thing that happens after .NET. After all, .NET was introduced to the general public in Orlando PDC 2000. And, if you listened carefully, essentials were already talked a few years earlier. This Read More

posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:06 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, General software development, Technology

Live Mesh

This seems like a good idea. However, so far the tech preview is not open to non-US citizens (I don't understand this kind of restrictions in the age of modern information society) and msmobiles.com had some doubts whether Microsoft really understands Read More

posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:39 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Technology, Mobile

Silverlight in S60 devices

Nokia has announced at Cebit that it wil support Silverlight in its devices. The press release does not mention which version and precisely which devices, but maybe we'll know more at the MIX08 keynote tomorrow where it is supposed to be demoed. This Read More

posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:55 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Technology, Mobile

Windows Server 2008 RTM

RTM-versio on ilmestynyt ja MSDN:stä sen olen jo hakenutkin mutta asennus täytyy jättää tuonnemmaksi kun työ- ja vapaa-ajan aikataulut antavat myöden. Hyvin tämä RC1-versiokin tuntuu toimivan, ei ole erityistä Read More

posted Friday, February 08, 2008 7:28 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Finnish, Technology

Burning CDs and DVDs on Server 2008

I wrote a short overview earlier about how to put Windows Server 2008 into use as a desktop os. Later on I discovered that the same CD burning feature that Vista has (just drop files to cd on Windows Explorer and tell it to burn) is not there. A couple Read More

posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:15 AM by aalialikoski | 2 Comments
Filed Under: Technology

Installing Windows Live software to Windows Server 2008

Thanks to JO in a comment to my earlier post, I did manage to install Live Messenger and Live Writer to my Server 2008 laptop. The procedure requires installing the Live software to a supported os (Win XP in my case) and copy the .msi packages over Read More

posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:02 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Technology

Windows Server 2008 in production

I have always wanted to run the latest Windows version available - be it a client or server version. So, this time it is Windows Server 2008's turn. The real reason for starting to run it as a production platform on my Dell laptop is that it is the only Read More

posted Monday, December 17, 2007 1:43 PM by aalialikoski | 4 Comments
Filed Under: Technology

TechEd Developers Barcelona

TechEd for developers starts in Barcelona today. After a couple consecutive TechEds I am not there this year, maybe Virtual Teched can help ease the pain :) Read More

posted Monday, November 05, 2007 1:58 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Technology, Events

.NET Framework source code to be available

Wow, Microsoft is Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries when .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 are released later this year! Integrated debugging support for VS 2008 will be included. No more fiddling with reflector or SSCLI. Read More

posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:32 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Technology

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