I read Dror’s post and decided to compare the search for the 2nd Developers Academy in both Google and Live.com.

Here are the instructions to follow before you install Visual Studio 2008 RTM:

1. Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs
2. Remove all instances of Visual Studio 2008/Codename Orcas products
3. Remove any remaining supporting products in the specified order.

• Remove “Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 beta2” (or “Crystal Reports 2007”)
• Remove “MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta”
• Remove “Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5”
• Remove “Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Design Tools”
• Remove “Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 for Devices”
• Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Performance Collection Tools”
• Remove “Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC”
• Remove “Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Smartphone”
• Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component / Microsoft Web Designer Tools”
• Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime 3.0”
• Remove “Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0”
• Remove “Microsoft Document Explorer 2008”
• Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Codename Orcas Remote Debugger”
• Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta” (64-bit platforms only)
• Remove “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5”
• Remove “Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5”

Now that you’re sure all the beta bits are are gone you can install the Visual Studio 2008 RTM edition of your choice…

I’m currently uninstalling the beta bits from my machine in order to install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008. My experience with this process on previous versions was pretty painful and so far with the 2008 versions I’ve had to re-image my machine in order to upgrade to beta 2.

“… There are many stories in Twin Peaks–some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery–the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.”

Apple’s public relations tendency to bully journalists and bloggers is nothing new but a recent post on Valleywag shows a rare view on things really work behind the scenes.

I wish I had a PhD in guitar acoustics like Dr Mark Lewney…

I just had to share today’s Dilbert:

(I think Mordac works at our IT organization… 😉 )

The following Microsoft Sync commercial is just inspiring:

Now if my car can do it why can’t my Media Player? What about Media Center integration? And maybe even speech recognition software for smart home (Alon, that can be a cool demo for your MediaCenter lectures)?

In the Seattle area on November 29 and looking for something to do? Why not join a Silverlight workshop at Microsoft Redmond?

Yes, that’s not a typo. I really did mean lunch…