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Ever started a download and then wondered how much time it had before it finished?  Me too.  I just noticed this feature in the new taskbar of Windows 7 on the Internet Explorer 8 icon.  Zune 4.0 was just released so I kicked off a download.  A few minutes later I was wondering how far along it was.  I happened to glance down at the task bar in Windows 7 and noticed this: The Internet Explorer 8 icon was filling up, moving to the right as the download progressed. Here is typical download window.  Very cool and something I hadn’t...

Did you know you can have a brand new version of Windows 7 up and running within minutes in VMWare?  Here’s how.  I run VMWare for all of my virtual machines.  Yes I know Windows 7 has native VHD support but honestly I don’t need to boot a VM on my main desktop.  I have plenty of horse power to comfortably run a VM (12GB’s of memory, fast drives, 4 monitors). If you are running VMWare 6.5 you are only a few minutes away from having Windows 7 running in a VM and then only a few...

  http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-36-what-happens-in-the-speaker-rsquo-s-lounge-is-supposed-to-stay-in-the-speaker-rsquo-s-lounge/   Speakers that speak at a lot of Code Camps, Conferences, and various user groups spend an enormous amount of personal time and money to bring valuable information to the community.  In this episode I sat down with a bunch of speakers while at the DevLink 2009 conference and discussed “Why do we do what we do?” among other things.  It is a fun episode and there are even some outtakes at the end. This episode also breaks our record for the number of guests in one episode with over 12 guests!  Hope...

This morning I met with my eye doctor for a post op.  It didn’t take long before for he said things didn’t look good.  I had more fluid build up on my eye and I had developed a lot of scar tissue.  My problem is I heal too quickly.  My wife has always been amazed that I’ll get a cut one day and then almost be healed the next.  While I am no Wolverine when it comes to healing I do tend to heal faster than most.  When it comes to healing in the eye, slower is better. The...

A month or so ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on Geek Speak and the show is finally up on Channel9!  I showed how to deploy a complex WCF service from scratch that supported multiple bindings including: basicHttpBinding wsHttpBinding netTcpBinding netMsmqBinding   There isn’t a lot of information on how to setup this type of WCF service in IIS/WAS especially when it comes to setting up the queues.  After everything is deployed within IIS and WAS,...