Visual Studio 2010 (release candidate) is out.
MSDN subscribers can access it immediately while others will need to wait a little.
[2010-02-11: It is now available for public.]
[2010-02-15: If you experienced some crashes related to IntelliSense, there is a patch for that.]
I love Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Since that particular brand is not available in Croatia where I live, I like to indulge myself when I am in Berlin.
Since tonight I was having sweet tooth decision was made, for the first time, to try big 500ml box. It came quite costly but I didn’t care. I was eager to go into my hotel room to be alone with it…
However, unlike small cones, big packaging does not include any spoon-like contraption. That presented quite a problem since there was no spoon in sight.
For benefit of those among you that cannot handle horror movies, I will not go into too much details. I will just say that I managed to eat it. And I will remember to pack a spoon on my next trip. :)
Everything started with me trying to enter my home town, Osijek, on stackoverflow careers. I was quite annoyed with auto change of Osijek to Esseg - name that my town had before year 1918 (during Habsburg Monarchy).
I got information that this is taken from geo.places Yahoo table and that this is place to complain. On contact page it was clearly said that all technical questions or bugs should be addressed in support forums (“Please use our developer forums for both issues so that other developers can benefit from the conversations.”). I did just that - I created new post in Yahoo developer forum. I tried to be as specific as possible and I avoided to be too annoying with constant repost.
It has been a month now and error remains. I am little bit disappointed since I haven’t seen any action at all. I would understand if somebody challenged my claim. I would understand if somebody said that independent verification is needed. I cannot understand that there is no answer at all. If you say that forums are your only official support, you better post some replies there.
Since original approach didn’t work, I will probably start to annoy everybody and repost this from time to time. I am quite sure that Jeff Atwood (meta stackoverflow moderator) will bother them too. Hopefully some time next year I will be able to have my city named correctly.
Malfunctioning plane was all it took to ground me once more and to award me free stay in hotel, early wake up to catch next flight and feeling awful for whole next day.
I got free ride to hotel (courtesy of Croatia Airlines) and I got free bus pick-up at 05:00. Standard bus ride this early is not something you see too often.
Room was quite fine but real gem was free wireless Internet access through-out hotel. This is something every hotel should have!
Best surprise was dinner. While mighty Sheraton only offered me stale meal, here I could choose what I wish to eat from six three-course menus. To make it even better, you could mix-and-match them to get your favorite combination.
Although I didn’t pay dime for this stay, I felt welcomed and like a proper guest. What more can one ask?
Microsoft started Connect site a while ago and I understood it as central hub for all bug reports. If came handy for taking bug reports for Windows 7 (now closed) and Visual Studio. Interface was simple and you could be sure that you would get some response. Even if that response is “Won’t Fix”.
This is probably why I am so furious on Microsoft Office team. Only thing they did is to include link to page full of marketing. Microsoft already has full infrastructure in place for reporting bugs but they decide not to use it.
Yes, I know that there is Send-a-Smile program available for Office 2010 and I am aware that it may be easier for most of people. However, this should not be an excuse. Windows 7 team managed to include their stand-alone utility with Connect without big issues.
Now you must excuse me since I need to reboot my computer in order to boot into another Windows instance with Office 2010 beta in order to report a bug. Only if there was a web interface for that… :)