I love Netflix! Their instant movie viewer provides on-demand access to a ever-growing number of titles. And with a decent broadband connection the picture quality, though not as good as a DVD, is still pretty good. This is something I’ve been wanting from the Internet for a long time – now I’m no longer captive to the limited selection at the local video rental outlet.
I suppose it should come as no surprise that Netflix has jumped on the API bandwagon. Check out the Netflix Developer home page for more information. Oh, and it looks like some folks are working on a .NET wrapper for the API. Nice.
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Brian Randell recently announced the availability of new Visual Studio Team System evaluation VPC images. These virtual machines are very handy sandboxes that contain Team Foundation Server and Team Suite, all setup and ready to go. You can use these virtual machines not only for evaluation purposes, but also for learning about Team System and experimenting without worrying about messing up things.
These virtual images are set to expire in December 2009, providing a full year of use. The set consists of four versions:
Use the links above to navigate to the download pages for these virtual machines. But, if you prefer not to download eleven massive files one at a time, you can use Free Download Manager to queue up and download all the files automatically.
The text file below contains a list of the files to download for each virtual image. Simply copy the list for the image you want, then paste the list into Free Download Manager using Ctrl-Shift-V.
Team_System_2008_SP1_Trial_Image_Download_List.txt (5.93 KB)
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