How to really compact Virtual PC hard drives

  • November 18, 2008
  • James Skemp
No names mentioned, but I've recently been using a number of virtual machines for testing purposes. One machine has Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox 2 installed, while a second has Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, and the most recent versions of Opera, Safari (for Windows) and Chrome. However, the virtual hard drives were 10 GB each, due to a large number of apps being installed that didn't need to be, for our browser-based testing.

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Wowsa - what happened to Google Analytics? (November 2008 edition)

  • November 11, 2008
  • James Skemp
Google has done it again. Logging in this evening, I immediately noticed the change to Google Analytics. Now you can see, when you first log in, the visits, average time, bounce rate, completed goals, and % change (default visits) for your sites. It's weird in that it shows a number of rows, and not sites (which effectively means half as many sites as I expect, as each of my sites has two rows), but it's very interesting.

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How to get started with Microsoft Log Parser

  • November 7, 2008
  • James Skemp
I've written about Microsoft Log Parser before, and even started a site around it. But, I noticed the other day that I hadn't written on how to get started with this powerful tool. Getting Log Parser The current version of Log Parser is version 2.2, which you can download from Microsoft. Installing Log Parser While it says supported operating systems are "Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Professional Edition," it appears to run fine on Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Vista (at least Ultimate has been personally confirmed).

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LogParserPlus.com - Updates for 2008.11.04

  • November 5, 2008
  • James Skemp
Log Parser Plus was updated last night, during the election coverage, with the following changes: All functions now have descriptions (pulled almost completely from the included help file). Expressions have been added. Visit LogParserPlus.com for all of this information, and more, as it becomes available. (Next addition will be samples for the functions, and the start of a fleshed-out queries listing.)

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President Obama

  • November 4, 2008
  • James Skemp
About 10 minutes ago Fox, CNN, NBC, and ABC showed Obama winning the election. After 2 disappointments ... it's hard to feel absolutely confident until there's 100% reporting, but I'm feeling pretty dang happy. :D

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Review of LittleBigPlanet: BradyGames Signature Series Guide

  • October 25, 2008
  • James Skemp
Rated 5 stars. Rate this review on Amazon. Purchase this guide or game through Amazon. First of all, this is a beautiful guide. Every time I pick up one of the Brady Games guides I'm impressed with the quality of the actual item. Nice smooth pages, great colors, etcetera. About 66% of this guide deals with the story mode. This involves a checklist of items for each level, as well as hints and tips on completing them successfully.

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LittleBigPlanet - First day, first thoughts

  • October 25, 2008
  • James Skemp
Right or wrong, GameStop was in stock and selling pre-orders of LittleBigPlanet today, so I was able to pick up my copy, along with the official guide. Thus far I've gone through four complete areas, and picked up the trophies accordingly. On only the first level did I actually get a 100% (but not the Ace award), and with the later levels, I had to retry a number of times.

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oXygen XML Editor 10 released

  • October 23, 2008
  • James Skemp
Luckily I fired it up this very morning and was alerted to the new upgrade - Gmail decided to mark their automated message as spam. Luckily I was covered under the original maintenance plan, so ... free upgrade, but even if you're not, you may want to give the new features a look. Read more about oXygen XML Editor.

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.NET DataSet dump (C#)

  • October 18, 2008
  • James Skemp
One thing that I really like about ColdFusion is the powerful cfdump. Use the cfdump tag to get the elements, variables, and values of most kinds of ColdFusion objects. Useful for debugging. You can display the contents of simple and complex variables, objects, components, user-defined functions, and other elements.  Of all the tags in ColdFusion, cfoutput is probably the only tag that I use more. Unfortunately, most other languages, JavaScript and .

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Backing up my iTunes library - how I do it

  • October 14, 2008
  • James Skemp
Here's how I backup my iTunes library. My environment I have a HP Pavilion a620n with Windows XP Home, SP3, where I do my iTunes purchasing and copying to my iPod. I have an iPod Classic, 80 GB, that I manually sync from my a620n. I have a HP Pavilion a6360t with Windows Vista Ultimate, SP1. I have a HP Pocket Media Drive, 160 GB. My method I do most of my work on my XP machine.

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