Merry Christmas all! This year my kids unpacked an Anki Overdrive: Fast and the Furious race track and associated parts – all anticipated of course. What is Anki Overdrive? Anki: Supported Devices We celebrated the day at our new “offsite” location (holiday home) in a part of New South Wales […]
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There’s a post up on Labor leader Bill Shorten’s site addressing Labor’s position in regards to the draft mandatory metadata retention legislation and specifically to recommendations included in the Parliamentary Joint Committee report, released late Friday. Honestly, it’s not very encouraging. I really think Labor should be outright blocking the […]
On Tuesday, Australia’s Liberal and National parties (“the Coalition” – in opposition to the governing party) released their alternative policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN) which was created by the current majority party, the Labor government. Their plan is to deliver a broadband solution to the Australian public sooner, […]
So I’m sure we’ve all had to contemplate this at some point in our development lifetime – when is it appropriate to grant developers and architects the key to the domain? There are quite a range of developers and software engineers out there, and for various reasons they do, from […]
This is something I just don’t understand. We all know about e-mail spam, it has been around for almost as long as the Internet itself, however comment spam is (by comparison) relatively new and a little mindboggling. Nearly every serious blogger I know moderates comments and uses manual and/or automatic […]
Recently I made the horrible mistake of installing the latest version of the usually reliable Windows Live suite. For everyday use, I generally use Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Writer – both of which have been historically fairly stable until now. Where to begin?? Live Writer This very useful […]
Just when you thought it was safe to talk about mobile phones again – the hyper-marketing(tm) machine (a.k.a the Microsoft Marketing department) is back and this time they’re trumpeting the Windows Phone 7 (is it just me, or is that a stupid name?). Whilst Microsoft is no stranger to the […]
So by now you must have read that Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 has been released to market. What you may not necessarily be aware of are the different “flavours” of Visual Studio. The 2005 Edition of Visual Studio comprised of Professional, Tools for Office and Team Suite (Architect, Development, Database […]
If you are running a copy of any version of Windows since Windows Vista (i.e. Vista or Windows 7) you might be somewhat aware that the Windows folder on your system drive is quite large. Indeed, it is most likely to be the largest consumer of disk space on that […]
As a dot-com bust survivor, 2010 marks a particularly sensitive anniversary for myself and, no doubt, many other Information Technology workers. This time, ten years ago, I worked as a programmer for a company called K*Grind (www.kgrind.com) which, at the time, was aimed at providing high quality media content aimed […]
It’s just getting to the point where you have to have to say that it’s pretty much unacceptable for major mainstream software to not support resizable windows. Today I went to adjust the bindings for the default web site on my local IIS 7 service using IIS Manager. Sorry, but […]
Visual Studio is an advanced programming environment for those wishing to develop software for the Microsoft platform. From web applications, mobile phone applications and database analysis projects to Xbox games and windows applications and services – this is the one stop shopping solution. By request.. a shortlist of things I […]
Well, I’ve lamented for about ten years about the lack of a clear development OS platform for software developers, testers and related folk. It seems Microsoft don’t plan on any changes in that regard with the next OS – Windows 7. This (1) little press release – a Q&A with […]
Nothing gets my blood boiling faster than any product which automatically tries to make a remote connection without you asking it to. Team Explorer is integrated into Visual Studio and will try to make a connection to Team Foundation whenever the tab (if you have docked it so) gets focus. […]
Recently I’ve been in "interpret draconian license" mode. For a V2 product (Team Foundation Server 2008), Microsoft has not held back in ensuring that everyone pays to use TFS (regardless really of the how and why factors). Personally, I think that making the licensing open and fair ought to be […]