Specifically, the Windows emulator available for use with Kubuntu 9.10 (“Karmic Koala”). It runs FTP Sync just fine. (more…)

Found this totally by accident while prepping an open source tool you’ll be seeing here soon(ish).

It’s a download page for all Yahoo! products (well, the downloadable ones, anyway). Quite cool if you ask me – why don’t they make more of this?

I’ve been using the excellent freeware RSS reader Feedreader for ages; great for keeping up with my RSS feeds (Thunderbird can do much the same, but for some reason I find I prefer Feedreader…)

Having installed it in XP I wanted to portable-ise* it so I could use it in my Windows 7 setup. Turns out – thanks to this post – that it’s rather easy to do… (more…)

I’ve installed Microsoft Office 97 on Windows 7 (and just leeched that spiffy download page I found on the MS website…). I suspect this may be the longest lived version of Office, working as far back as NT 3.51, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, and now Win7. I never install that accursed paper clip though…

Recently at work I’ve been given the task of writing some code to extend Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint uses its own XML-based SOAP interface called CAML (pronounced “camel” – it stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language).

Not much to report – someone put me on to an excellent (Java-based) soap browsing tool called soapUI, and the book I’ve been reading mentioned tools on the u2u website. And finally, here is a nice little link dump to various SharePoint topics.