It's been a very busy few days since I last posted an entry here. I've been head down in work - reams and reams of reading, and writing my app for the Pocket PC. I don't have much to report, but here a a few items of interest that I've come across recently:
O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf. Our MSDN subscription gave the company a free 30 day trial to Safari. I visited a year ago, and only saw O'Reilly books. As much as I like O'Reilly books, I didn't think it was worth the investment at the time. Now it has over 1400 books from a bunch of publishers. I'm like a kid in a candy shop! Blame Safari for my blog silence.
VS.NET Posters. Here are PDF files of the posters that ship with the Visual Studio .NET. Since we get all our software from MSDN downloads we don't get these in printed format, so it's nice of MS to put them up for download. Great references for the various parts of the .NET framework. I printed them on our 11x17 printer, but I need to find someone who can print the full poster-size to make them readable from across the office.
Total Recorder. Remember my post on "drive time learning"? I wanted to find some tools for converting existing content into audio. Well Total Recorder is the tool. I purchased the Professional edition this week and used it to record a bunch of Microsoft Webcasts to CD. I'm in drive-time learning overdrive.
Comments
Try the Memorial Student Union copy centre (or any respectable print shop). They can print on paper up to around 40" wide and almost arbitrarily long. It's really great for doing 3'h x 5'w posters for conferences too! If it's full color plan on spending $50-$100, but if it's only B&W or partial color, it may only be 25%-50% of that total... the price goes by the linear inch, I think.
Posted by: Christopher | June 18, 2003 09:07 PM
Thanks for the heads up. I found out that the company has some print services available at a local print shop, so I'm going to see if I can have them do it. I'll post the results here if I can manage to get the posters printed to my satisfaction.
Posted by: Steve Clarke | June 19, 2003 09:59 PM