Yesterday SQL Server 2008 was released but had a rather unbalanced dependency: SQL won’t install next to a copy of Visual Studio 2008 unless said Visual Studio has been applied with Service Pack 1. Problem: Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio isn’t released until August 11th. How do […]
Rants
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Hello, and welcome to the most recent installment of my rants. This one is particularly close to my heart: Internet connectivity. Since you are reading this blog, I’m going to assume you are already astute, upwardly mobile and blindingly handsome/beautiful but just in case you didn’t already know – I […]
So I had a little spare time just now, and decided to se what was happening on facebook. Nothing, as it turns out. Seems like all the applications are broken. They can’t be added or used. Ho hum. Anyhow, back to a pet peeve of mine: Microsoft will you fix […]
So for people who are new to the "Rants" category, posts in the aforementioned category are usually me blowing off some steam. These are usually fairly harmless, just a nice way to highlight some of the oddities of my day/week/month/life. Now this rant by a former Ruby on Rails developer […]
Hi all. So, this is a rant (skip if you will). You’ve come to love and respect the rant process, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this entry. This fact warms the cockles of my heart, maybe below the cockles, perhaps the sub-cockle area; Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the […]
So the place I’m staying at currently has IPTV. This means that the nice big plasma TV has been locked out at the hardware layer. More specifically, it won’t accept external input. This is a real shame because I usually like to hook my laptop up to the larger […]
So, I’d assumed that everyone knew… LINQ isn’t going to officially support (RTM) SQL Server /SQL Server 2008 until Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (or, more specifically, I’d guess a Framework revision). Everyone probably knows that SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 both will be hitting RTM in February, rumoured […]
Recently there was a thread on the Australian .Net Mailing list (aus-dotnet) which led into a discussion around how the industry might consider attracting more graduates into IT courses and, eventually, careers in IT. Personally, I don’t want the IT & T industry to pander to graduates by way of […]
"I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!" –Howard Beale, Network (1976) Well, I think that captures the essence of my pain.. Sorry, but I’m really at a loss to explain the sudden – but measurable – drop in the quality of products (notably software) in the past […]
OK, I’m just about ready to lose it. I’ve had Madden 08 since the Friday before last and the game has locked up about 30 – 40 times. Last night *I COULD NOT SIM ANY GAMES* (I tried about 7 times with 7 hard resets). Yes, that’s right. When you […]
G’day. So yesterday I tore out some more hair trying to duel with Subversion (SVN). I’m not using the Ankh Visual Studio plugin (as yet). What ended up happening was that somehow SVN got the idea that I wanted to delete a Web.config file. Somehow it got committed, and […]
Another 50 minute drive home. Yesterday, same route, was over an hour (departed 5:30pm, arrived at 6:35pm). That’s roughly 50 minutes to go approx 11 – 15kms. The M2 isn’t much faster, probably averaging out to be between 35 – 45 minutes, plus the healthy $4.60 toll! When […]
OK. So this is going to probably be a controversial posting. Just call me an old crusty code warrior.. but.. It’s no secret I’m wholly unsold on test driven development [wikipedia] (TDD). I have nothing against testing or writing of tests, it is vital to the overall success and stability […]
Well, I’m pretty depressed with the state of Australia right now. Pretty damn ticked off, to be precise. So sick and tired I reckon I should set up my own policital party. The Liberals can’t be trusted. The Labor party are too incompetent (at any level) to be in […]