This coming Monday, 12th of May comes the next exciting chapter in the Readify Developer Network series of presentations. This time, it’s a single ReadiDepth session from WCF mastermind Dan "Rock Star" Crowley-Wilson. ReadiDepth – What’s new for WCF in Visual Studio 2008 presented by Daniel Crowley-Wilson. Dan will take […]
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Strong naming. Net assemblies isn’t new. Prepping dependency assemblies (specifically, those not in the Global Address Cache) is also non-trivial but necessary. Here’s a quick way to apply strong naming to an existing (non-signed) assembly. From a Visual Studio.NET command prompt, enter the following: 1. To Generate a Strong Name […]
Over the weekend I killed my original (custom) tribot design and attempted to build a more robust model. I decided to drop a tribot and focus on a humanoid frame – eventually I simply built the popular design Lego uses. Walking isn’t this model’s strong suit. It walks with some […]
Hi All, On Monday I finally went out and bought a new handset. The choice: a HTC Touch (not the one with the keyboard though). There is a link to the official site here. Now, of course, this means Windows Mobile 6. The possibilities seem endless! </mad laughter> Let me […]
Tonight I was having a chat with David Halliday (recent of the Sharepoint team in Redmond) and we got to talking about variety in terms of work. I think at one point I said something along the lines of "let’s face it, if you haven’t solved (a business problem) within […]
Hi! Today and Sunday I am going to be blogging live from Code Camp Oz in Wagga Wagga. This is a live blog entry, so check back for updates regularly. Alternatively, you can follow my (and other) twits on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) Running out of battery power – again. Last session […]
Hi Everyone, Just a quick reminder that the 2008 Code Camp Oz is THIS weekend in Wagga Wagga. If you were planning to go but forgot, better book things quickly. The official site is here. Some sessions you’ll find me at (and won’t drag me away from): Lessons learned while […]
But don’t get your hopes up just yet! It’ll still be a little while until it’s released to a wider community. Partners and OEM manufacturers will get first shot at the Service Pack while end users can easily expect to wait until (Northern Hemisphere) summer time to get their hands […]
Well, you walk on to a McDonald’s and order a Big Mac. The chick behind the counter punches in something on the register and then asks "do you want fries with that?". Well, Active Data Objects Entity Framework is my Big Mac, and in that case, fries must be the […]
So, I was going over some old emails and trying to catch up on my learning (I’m currently doing some Professional Development) and I came across this interesting tidbit. Seems that managed C++ will be dropped from the Microsoft certification program. This is probably fine with me, I don’t know […]
Well, this weekend I finally gave in a rebuilt my Dell XPS into a Windows 2003 Server box. The more ‘modern’ OSes were simply too burdensome for my ‘antiquated’ hardware. It’s beyond a joke when a 3.4GHz, 2GB memory box (ok, laptop) with 256 MB of graphics memory (ATI Radeon […]
The speaker list for this years’ Code Camp Oz has been published. For those passionate about .Net or with a passing interest in the Microsoft platform technologies will find this is an event to be reckoned with. Community leaders and technical specialists bring you technical sessions on the latest and […]
Well, over here you can have a read through this blog post on how to use the new Windows Server 2008 as a workstation. I’ve been successfully using WS2K8 as my primary Operating System since just after Christmas last year (the RC1) and I’ve only had some expected issues to […]
Well recently I tried to give a live example of a design pattern for optimistic concurrency. It’s been a while (more than 12 months) since I last demonstrated this in practice, so I’ve been a bit rusty. Some time ago, I was working on a project at Microsoft with a member […]