My Thoughts On Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Adrian Robertson

Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Although I had seen a little of Windows 8 via the Developer Preview, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is my first real taste of the latest operating system from Microsoft. I decided to install it on a non critical laptop that I mostly use to remote desktop to one desktop machine or another, so I wasn't losing anything of great value if it all turned pear shaped.

From installation to how I am using Windows 8 Consumer Preview right now, here are a few thoughts of mine on the latest Windows installment.

 

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Fast. Cheap. Good. Why You Can Only Pick Two

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Adrian Robertson

Fast Good Cheap

Fast. Good. Cheap. You Can Pick Only Two

And one of the two you should always pick is "good".

Too often, too recently, and too many times have I either been directly affected by such a decision, or have born the brunt of having to work with a decision that's been made when trying to create something, such as software, where a choice has had to have been made between making it quickly, cheaply, or doing it well. You can only ever pick two. Unfortunately most people think you can pick fast and cheap, and that then making a good product will be fluked our will somehow just happen. It never does. Never.

 

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Entering the Age of ‘Why’

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Adrian Robertson

“Where are you going Daddy?” my nearly 2 and a half year old daughter asked me.

“To work.” I replied.

“Why?” she asked.

“Good question.” I responded.

The Age of Why has begun.

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Browser Usage Statistics. Who Can We Believe?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Adrian Robertson
IE6 Usage Worldwide according to IE6 Countdown

IE6 Usage Worldwide according to IE6 Countdown

There is a lot of talk around the interweb these days about IE6 and it’s impending doom, as worldwide stats show it’s decrease in usage. The trouble with the various statistics though is, which ones are accurate? What can be believed?

I have seen statistics from various “reliable” sources (I don’t know how to tell the difference between reliable and unreliable, but pretty sure Dilbert’s rubbish collector was one of the sources) that show IE6 usage as low as 1.78% worldwide amongst Internet users, and as high as 7.7%.

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Dreamweaver AppCrash Fix

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Adrian Robertson
dreamweaver runtime error

dreamweaver runtime error

So my issue started with some bizarre hardware errors that just suddenly appeared on my workplace PC having just returned from the Christmas / New Year break. For the record, a Windows 7 64bit machine, 4GB RAM, running Adobe CS5 Master Collection.

Ultimately I needed to perform a System Restore, as I thought maybe that some automatically applied updates had caused the error (my computer was on whilst I was away, and our work policy is to have some Windows updates applied automatically. I was pretty keen to get back up and running at this point). Whilst the System Restore seemed to fix most of my issues, I decided to run a Malware scan through the machine also, which detected and subsequently removed one trojan, the name of which I cannot recall.

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The Good Ol’ US of A

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Adrian Robertson

Cloud Gate, or the Bean

Having spent about 5 of approximately the last 12 weeks in the US (and a bit over a week in Toronto, Canada) I feel I am now an expert on all things American.

I have been back home now long enough to muse on my experiences and gather a few thoughts together. They were a scramble of random events and feelings before, and now they are a scramble of ordered events and feelings. Small steps are still steps in the right direction.

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