Businesses prepare for .branding campaign. International domain name regulator ICANN will next year introduce generic top-level domains (gTLD) beyond the familiar .com, .org and .net. The decision followed a majority vote at ICANN’s board meeting in Singapore this afternoon, despite concerns raised by its Governmental Advisory Committee. The board planned […]
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Welcome to World IPv6 day, which is being held today, June 8th, 2011. Just what is World IPv6 day? Today industry leaders will switch parts of their infrastructure over from IPv4 to IPv6 in a move designed to increase awareness of the impending migration to the new protocol. Why now? […]
Following on from the controversy in April this year of software maker Red Gate’s baffling decision to rescind the gratis (free) nature of Lutz Roeder’s tremendously popular .Net CLR Decompiler, .Net Reflector (which Red Gate acquired in 2008), a number of projects have sprung up to fill the gap in […]
The IEEE Society and Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) are presenting two free public seminars on recent developments in the Internet sphere including the “Kill Switch” used in Egypt and Libya, Wikileaks and beyond. This should prove a very timely event, given the recent developments concerning the Internet, and I’m […]
Hi All, If you’ve ever been curious about Domain Names, it might be worth a look at the Domain Name Tracking website. It’s got some handy domain tools like WHOIS lookup, a URI parser, and a way to look up second and third level extensions by country. and a handy […]
I always love it when a functional language goes rogue! Widely speculated for a while now, Microsoft’s F# language has been fully released as open source following a post by Don Syme recently. It would seem that the F# compiler source code has been released under the Apache 2.0 licensing. […]
Just a quick word to point out that the most recent version of the ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 4 was released recently (on the 13th of July) and is worth a look if you are using the Entity Framework in any meaningful fashion. Check back soon, we’ll […]
It’s been a while since I last put together a decent post – apologies – I’ve been quite literally up to my neck in computer components, outfitting some new hardware. This has killed a lot of my free time while I research and consume the latest information on hardware. You’d […]
Two nights ago, Microsoft’s premiere Development Suite – Visual Studio 2010 – was officially released (RTM – release to manufacturing/marketing). This means that it is officially ready and final (not pre-release). You can download full trials of all the editions of the suite from the Microsoft website. The 2010 edition […]
Well, as part of the typically moronic strategy for Windows Mobile devices comes word out of the recent MIX conference that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile 7 or “Windows Phone” will not support native applications, according to this quote from PC World: [1] “Microsoft will only support development of applications running […]
Q: What is SQL Code Camp? A: ““SQL Down Under Code Camp is an annual community-driven event for SQL Server professionals. Each year, well over a hundred DBAs and Developers come together to learn from each other and to network. It is held in October at the Wagga Wagga campus […]
If you’ve been following the blog for a while now, you’ll know there are two main database schemas I tend to work with for Proof of Concept (PoC) applications, movies and records (vinyl LPs). Last year I was building an Entity Framework based PoC using a schema made up of […]
“SQL Down Under Code Camp is an annual community-driven event for SQL Server professionals. Each year, well over a hundred DBAs and Developers come together to learn from each other and to network. It is held in October at the Wagga Wagga campus of our friends at Charles Sturt University.” […]
So this may not come as a surprise to many, but Microsoft have taken the Windows 7 into a public beta. As I understand it, MSDN and TechNet subscribers already have access, and the general public will too, tomorrow (AEST). Windows version 7 is the next major version of the […]
Over at MSDN there has been published a (1) fairly comprehensive paper on development under Windows 7. Some particular points of interest/new features include: "Windows 7 is designed to run on the same hardware as Windows Vista, and to be compatible with applications and device drivers that work with Windows […]