Few weeks ago I found a brand new file in my desktop: desktop.ini.
It wasn’t me!

Here its content:

[LocalizedFileNames]
Feedback Tool.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\FeedbackTool.dll,-1065
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799

Don’t know where it come from, what created it but …
here are some info:
Notepad Starts With …

desktop.ini verändert / gelöscht. was nun? (lang german)

Hack to Remove and Disable Send Feedback Tool in Windows 7 Beta

Have a nice reading

ps: just a note: in my registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\FeedbackToolEnabled=3

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What’s new from 5.8.5:

* task reminders
* FTP support (via the File menu)
* Task icons (Edit > Other Task Attributes > Set Task Icon)
* Time component added to Start dates
* Restored preference to control refiltering when editing (mainly to fix a specific bug)
* Numbered bullets added to Rich Edit comments
* Simple theming (4 sample themes included in the Resources folder)
* Separate preference for hiding Start time
* Added preference to control maximum width of columns

source: ToDoList 5.8.5 – A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks

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More than a century ago, when first microcomputer walked in our houses, young boys used to play…work with that new toy for many ours.
Childs use to be very quick learning machine with new tech-toys, rather than jurassic adult people.
Do you remember yourself or your childs in these words ?
Here is a paper about how new toys (internet) change our minds.

For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer.
[...]
For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded.
[...]
My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

You may read the whole post here: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

source: Internet plasma il cervello

Today we’re introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. [...] Fusion Tables [...] is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we get feedback from users.

source: Google Fusion Tables

a very simple but interesting experiment …

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I’ve already wrote about it, here.
Now, I’ve just upgrade to Opera 10, build 1551.

Now everything seems to be ok.

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Opera Turbo is a great solution for low bandwith lines.
Last days Turbo Mode has a problem with cookie: they aren’t stored.

No chance to login Yahoo! Mail nor this blog.

Disabling Turbo Mode everything works fine.
Activating “Ask me before accepting cookie” is a way to check if your case asa well.

I’m not the only one experimenti this behaviour, of course.
There is a post about it on Opera’s Forums, here: Opera Cookie Problems .
Hoping they are just tuning Turbo servers.

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When Virtual PC is running, most of the times keyboard has a sloooooow response, and sometimes it repeats the same key for very long time.
This happens inside Virtual PC.
Windows 7 doesn’t work properly as well, someother times keyboard is ok in guest os, but very slooooow in host computer (Windows 7).

The only solution that worked 100% so far is: lock host computer and unlock.

source: Fixing Virtual PC Keyboard Lockup

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Have you ever thinked about testing your PHP web applications? Maybe with Ajax?
Here you my find a good post: Acceptance Testing of Web Applications with PHP

Iterations? User Stories?
Unit tests, Integration tests, Acceptance tests?
Selenium? PHPUnit?

Read this post and you’ll learn very usefull infos.

source: Acceptance Testing of Web Applications with PHP

thanks to Milano XPUG mailing list .

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Here is a real life example by Stefano Masini;
this post is about refactoring/rewriting code in order to get self explaining code.
The example talk about dichotomic search on dynamic resizing of ui frame.

If we could make the code so speaking that understanding is made trivial, maybe we would stop rewriting the algorithm, thus saving time and brain power. We might even get some code that can actually be extended to handle further corner cases, where each extending implementation would have a natural place to go.

You’d better read it!

source: Code: speak to me!

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Another free book from Microsoft Press Book Connection newsletter: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention by Marc McDonald, Robert Musson, and Ross Smith.

This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to help avoid creating defects during the development process—rather than fixing them after extensive analysis.

have a nice reading

source: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

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