When in search for a project title, we were inspired by the fun we have when building it. Basically AMUSE doesn’t stand for anything real – but below I try to give an explanation:

Advanced
Modeling in
UML with
Simulation and
Execution

If somebody ends up with a better interpretation please share it in the comments section.

The time of the good old Windows Forms Development for Windowsphones seems over!

One result of this is previous Windows mobile applications will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series.

To be clear, we will continue to work with our partners to deliver new devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will support those products for many years to come, so it’s not as though one line ends as soon as the other begins.

More Detail here:

Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone Development : Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience

It will be interesting what OS Enterprise Mobility Devices will be running in the next 3 to 5 Years – CE or WM 6.5? Since CE 6.0 R3 everything seems to be in place for those use cases!

In a preparation for our AMUSE launch we decided that we also need a Twitter channel so we have an easy way to share and collect information from our growing community.

Simply follow us on: http://twitter.com/LL_LieberLieber

We are currently working around the clock to be able to release our AMUSE Package for Enterprise Architect 7.5 Ultimate still this Month.

It will be presented on the SparxSystems Best Practise Workshop next week in Munich.

We will also be providing Trial Versions for people interested in Testing it – So stay tuned on this Channel.

lifehacker.com posted an interesting disk visualization tool.

http://www.diskspacefan.com/

it’s one of those things, where you think,… “yeah funny,.. eyecandy,…” but it often helps you localize your biggest harddrive waste.

If not it’s still darn pretty eyecandy

How to use an Update Cursor on MS SQL Server.
Requirements: If the update-table does not have a Primary Key, the cursor is read-only. So I advise to create at least a temporary Primary Key, and delete it afterwards.

Usage:

DECLARE curs as CURSOR
FOR SELECT * FROM t_image
FOR UPDATE

OPEN curs
FETCH curs INTO @lastValue

WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0) BEGIN

UPDATE [t_image]
SET [CALC_VALUE] = @lastValue
WHERE current of curs

FETCH curs INTO @lastValue
END

CLOSE calc
DEALLOCATE calc

if you replace “WHERE current of curs” by any “WHERE x = y” statement, it would decrease performance dramtically.

During a test with 80000 records, execution time without update cursor takes 20 minutes. Using an update cursor speeds up to a total time of 20 seconds!

Good news: In former times you had to disable System Restore, exchange some dlls n’stuff. Today Windows 7 allows you to change the background of the Logon Screen pretty easy:

It’s only the the following 2 steps:
1) set the value of the registry key from 0 to 1: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background\OEMBackground (dword)
2) copy the desired new background image named “backgroundDefault.jpg” into C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds

Et voilà: the background has changed without any restart!

Note: create the registry key or folder, if it does not exist!
Source: windowsblog.at (Grazie mille!)