June 2013 - Posts

• Weekend reading: Microsoft/Oracle and SkyDrive based code-editor

  A couple of news item caught my eye this weekend that I think are worthy of comment. Microsoft/Oracle partnership to be announced tomorrow (24/06/2013) According to many news site Microsoft and Oracle are about to announce a partnership ( Oracle set for Read More... Posted Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:53 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Oracle, SkyDrive, Visual Studio

• Want to prove something with data? Aggregate it!

  Recently Microsoft announced that they’re releasing a new XBox which was apparently big news and was reported on at length around the globe. One article in particular on the BBC News website caught my attention because it contained what I thought to be Read More... Posted Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:53 AM by jamiet | 8 Comments

• Using SnagIt to take screenshots when using a Surface

  Update, since I wrote this post an update to Surface means that simply pressing Fn + <Spacebar> fires up SnagIt. Job done. I recently bought a Surface Pro which so far I’m really enjoying however one thing one thing I’ve been having hassles with Read More... Posted Saturday, June 01, 2013 1:14 AM by jamiet | 6 Comments