Well, it is about that time of the year when TechEd Australia kicks off; this year it is being held on the Gold Coast in Queensland. As usual the location doesn’t vary much, TechEd has alternated between Sydney and the Gold Coast over the past half decade, which leaves me […]
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You might find this information handy if you work with Windows Services, and wish to grant some basic permissions to user accounts. In my scenario, I wanted to be able to list the status of several key Windows Services used in my overall architecture (for a diagnostic website/control panel) and […]
As it turns out, the idea of filtering the Internet is hardly a new one. In the mid 90s, the CSIRO was asked to investigate the feasibility of filtering Australia’s Internet traffic. The final report is available for reading here. You may be surprised (or not) to learn that the […]
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 […]
Hot off the press – a release of the much anticipated Power Tools for Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server 2010 – April 2010 (RTM). This release enables some of my favourite TFS goodness including: Alerts Explorer, Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Best Practices Analyzer, Custom Check-in Policy Pack, Process Editor, Team […]
For those of you who work with or live in a country which uses a language other than English, you may have need for variations on input. As you may know, I’m learning Mandarin which means I’m making use of Traditional and Simplified Chinese. When setting up my Windows 7 […]
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 like me, you probably aren’t a huge fan of Kerberos, but it does have some advantages. When using an Active Domain (AD) account as a service account, it is handy to reduce the attack vector by minimising the chosen Domain Account’s permissions and privileges. If you are […]
Wow, China just blocked all of Google’s sites. Literally just now – stunning, though hardly the last word. 31-03-2010 12:53am Beijing Time – Blocked31-03-2010 ~10:20am Beijing Time – Not Blocked Interestingly, Google is not blocked at the moment, perhaps what we had a taste of last night was a test […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today I learnt an important lesson about moving a PC from one Active Directory domain to another – the process will strip (domain) logins from SQL Server! Yes, I know this is kind of obvious and expected, but also easy to overlook. So our scenario is that we don’t have […]
A few years ago Canadian games developer BioWare brought us the critically acclaimed “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” and later followed with “Jade Empire” and, more recently, “Mass Effect” and “Dragon Age”. In 2010, BioWare (now owned by Electronic Arts) has released the long awaited sequel to Mass […]
This is part of a series of entries written about Microsoft’s new SQL Azure database service and the Entity Framework v4. Following on from my previous posts (check them out before continuing) – this article assumes you have followed steps outlined in the previous posts to create various models and […]
This is an addendum to a series of articles on SQL Azure and the Entity Framework (v4). Part 1 – Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure Part 2 – Next Steps with SQL Azure Part 3 – Putting it all together – SQL Azure Part 4 – A […]