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Visual Basic 2008 Express: Build a Program Now! sample files

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:04 PM by Jeanie Decker
I decided to try to learn Visual Basic, so I picked up a book that looked promising: Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! I've been working through the chapters. In chapter 6, (adding a splash screen) it instructs you to replace Read More...
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Writing good technical documentation, part 3

Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:45 PM by Jeanie Decker
(Part 2) (Part 1) Nathan Bransford, a literary agent, blogged about his difficulty in getting writers to paste their original query into their partial manuscript . Here are the instructions he sends them: "Thank you for your recent note. Would you mind Read More...
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Submit questions for the Operator's Manual

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:14 AM by Jeanie Decker
There are two ways to approach content on using the Operations console and Web console for Operations Manager: Explain what information is available in each section of the consoles. Take examples of information that an operator would want to locate, and Read More...
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Is your IE8 slow to open a new tab?

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:44 PM by Jeanie Decker
Whenever I would open a new tab in IE8, whether by control-clicking a link or simply clicking the New Tab tab, everything would go dead for a good 10-20 seconds until IE8would finally show a new tab and then begin trying to open something in it. (Yeah, Read More...
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FizzBin for geeks

Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 11:09 PM by Jeanie Decker
Scott Hanselman has a suggestion for tech support -- a codeword that clues in the help desk that you kinda know what you're doing. I'm not sure fizzbin will catch on, but it's a nice dream... Read More...
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Writing good technical documentation, part 2

Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 8:54 PM by Jeanie Decker
(Part 1) Joel Spolsky has an excellent post on the role of the program manager . I work with program managers, so I read through it comparing his descriptions with the PMs I've known. Then I got to the part on functional specifications and my interest Read More...
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Writing good technical documentation, part 1

Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:40 PM by Jeanie Decker
A recent comment by "BPM software" suggested that I write about best practices for writing technical documentation. I thought about it for awhile and decided I couldn't really do it justice in one post - hence, "part 1". I'll begin by plagiarizing myself Read More...
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MP guides online: a question for you

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:20 PM by Jeanie Decker
This is a question about the root page for the two management pack guide libraries ( operating system guides and server guides ). All of the guides are listed in the left navigation pane, beneath the parent page: In addition, when you click the parent Read More...
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An operating system, a horse, and transparency

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 9:43 AM by Jeanie Decker
Catching up on my Microsoft-related blog feeds this morning, I counted at least a dozen blogs announcing the new Windows 7 blog -- some rah-rah posts, some just passing it on, some speculating as to how much information the blog will actually provide, Read More...
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System Center Content Search

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:35 PM by Jeanie Decker
I'm not a gadget-y sort of person. I mean, I like gadgets, but I've grown wary of them (both offline and on) because so often they're a disappointment -- either they don't deliver or I don't really have a use for them. But recently I saw a presentation Read More...
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How not to write a user manual

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 7:52 PM by Jeanie Decker
I have to disagree with Tony Soper's admiration for the Pong user instructions: "Insert quarter Ball will automatically serve Avoid missing ball for high score" Tony and I worked together on the same team, so he's used to my contrariness. :-) I don't Read More...
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My new Zune

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:12 PM by Jeanie Decker
It's red. A really deep, rich red. Small and slender, but it feels nicely solid. And here was my setup experience: I had an existing instance of Zune (from the first release), not paired with a device, that I had already upgraded to the new software. Read More...
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Web vs. print challenges

Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 10:12 AM by Jeanie Decker
If you took a look at the DPM 2007 Operations Guide during the beta, you might have noticed that the server chapters have a similar organization: general maintenance management data recovery And within those sections are parallel topics, such as: renaming Read More...
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A new Vista trick I learned

Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 1:08 PM by Jeanie Decker
The Off Campus blog brought to my attention the coolest Vista trick I've learned yet - resizing screens on the fly. Up till now, I thought my only choices were (1) changing the screen resolution, (2) messing with IE's View settings for web pages, (3) Read More...
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Goodbye, hard drive

Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:15 PM by Jeanie Decker
It started with a funny little error message, waiting for me when I flipped on my home monitor after work yesterday. "Could not write to F:\ms$t" Well, there is no such directory on F: (an external hard drive), nor should anything have been writing to Read More...
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