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I caught these sessions:

<p><img src="https://david.gardiner.net.au/_astro/p1170016.C-P3qpvh_27uR0T.webp" alt="Morning tea - fruit and donuts" />Wednesday started off early – that would be the sun rising at some unearthly hour. So much for sleeping in without the kids being around!</p> <p>I caught these sessions:</p> <ul> <li>DAT101 - Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (Donald Farmer)</li> <li>DAT306 - Scalability Standouts - the biggest in the world, and how they did it (Nicholas Dritsas)</li> <li>WEB202 - Ten Things You Need to Know to Succeed with Natural User Interface (August de los Reyes)</li> </ul> <p>I was hoping to see "ARC301 - Philosophy of Software Quality" but the room was packed to overflowing. Disappointing as Joel Pobar is always worth hearing.</p> <p>Donald's use of early 1900's business process manual extracts and images just goes to show that the more things change the more they stay the same. I knew that there use to be people who's job title was "computer", but didn't realise they had pivot tables (or close enough) back then.</p> <p>Nicholas described some impressive stats for how some customers are using SQL Server and the kind of loads and performance that are possible.</p> <p><img src="../../assets/2010/08/p1170022%5B4%5D.jpg" alt="Before August's presentation" /></p> <p><img src="../../assets/2010/08/p1170023%5B4%5D.jpg" alt="Hands on Labs" />From 3.30 – 7pm I had my first shift helping out in the hands on labs. That went well, though your feet do get tired after standing up for all that time!</p> <p><img src="../../assets/2010/08/p1170021%5B4%5D.jpg" alt="Some lego to play with!" /></p> <p>So that's how they build software components!</p> https://david.gardiner.net.au/2006/11/tabbed-user-interfaces 2006-11-17T09:02:00.001+10:30 2006-11-17T09:02:00.001+10:30

I've been using Firefox for web browsing since it's first release, so I'm quite used to tabbed-browsing.

<p>I've been using Firefox for web browsing since it's first release, so I'm quite used to tabbed-browsing.</p> <p>The new version of Firefox (and IE7 too) has made a small change to how tabbed browsing works - the 'close tab' button is now part of each tab.</p> <p><img src="../../assets/2006/11/firefox%202%20tabs.png" alt="Firefox tabs" /></p> <p>What I've realised is that there's a difference now with how Visual Studio works - it's tabbed editing environment is like the old Firefox method - there's just one 'close' button over on the right-hand side.</p> <p><img src="../../assets/2006/11/visual%20studio%20tabs.0.png" alt="Visual Studio tabs" /></p> <p>I'm not sure which way I prefer - I can see advantages to both, but I just wish that I could make all the apps do it the same way and not be inconsistent now.</p> <p>I haven't tried any of the CTPs of the next version of Visual Studio yet, but I would guess that they'll change Visual Studio to mirror tabbing in IE7 (and Firefox 2).</p>