I tried Windows Vista for a week, loved the new Explorer, loved the new visuals and animations, hated the crashes and Explorer would lock up a lot.

A while back, a few bloggers talked about how much faster and better Windows Server 2008 was than Windows Vista; so I figured I would give Server 2008 a shot.  A quick Google search turned up www.Win2008Workstation.com. I followed the guides on that site, and I now have a desktop which looks like Vista, but performs much faster, and I get MUCH fewer lockups of Windows Explorer.

I did have to set DEP to "Essential Windows programs and services only" otherwise some games and programs wouldn't install.  But other than that, its been a great experience! Way to go Windows Server 2008 team!

First, a little bit of legal house keeping: The views I am about to post are not necessarily those of my employer.

Having just done a batch of interviews (Yes, we're hiring), if your interviewing at a shop that does technology X, please be familiar with technology X.  Being able to spell that there "c pound" language does not give you the right to put it on your resume.

Oh, and please, if your going to come interview with us, at least know what an interface is in the context of programming languages, such as C# or Java.

That is all.

The trending feature in DasBlog is pretty much non-existant, and the reporting is pretty lack luster, so I've decided to switch over to FeedBurner so I can get a handle on whats going on with this blog and its readers.  So, if you wouldn't mind, please kindly update your feed reader to pull from my feed burner feed. http://feeds.feedburner.com/akcoder

Update! - I upgraded to DasBlogCE 2.0 which has an option to set your feedburner information. So you shouldn't have to do anything if to quote Scott Hanselman "Aggregrators worth their salt know to update their local records when a feed issues a 301. DasBlog will automatically get everyone over to your new feed."