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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Upgraded the MacBook Hard Drive
After getting perilously close to a full disk in OS X, I decided to upgrade the drive in my MacBook yesterday. The process was incredibly simple (are you listening Microsoft?)
- Physically swap out the hard drives
- Place the original drive in an external caddy
- Boot the MacBook from the USB device (hold down Alt while booting to choose the boot device)
- Run SuperDuper! to clone the USB drive to the internal one
- Reboot.
Simple. I now have 320GB to play with, rather than the originally supplied 80GB.
Next step – Bootcamp.
DeveExpress CodeRush and Refactor! Pro
Just a quick post today, since I’m on holiday. 
Yesterday I attended a couple of product-related events in Bradford. The first was an MSDN event around the changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Including the Entity Framework, Data Services and a host of other good stuff). I’ll post more on that once I get my head around what to write.
The second part of the day was a presentation by Oliver Sturm of DevExpress on the CodeRush and Refactor! Pro products. I had not previously been aware of these products, but the presentation won me over. There’s a lot of power and cusomisability in these products, and they should really help cut down on developer effort required to create and maintain applications in Visual Studio. Luckily for me, I managed to win a licence for the products (thanks Oliver!) , and I’m really looking forward to installing and playing with the technologies. I seriously recommend you look up the tools, and strongly consider getting a licence for you and your team.