Happy Australia Day to you! 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 accounts etc. Part 1 – Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure Part 2 – […]
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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 accounts etc. Part 1 – Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure Part 2 – Next Steps with SQL Azure […]
This post is the first in a series of posts on this topic. The following is a summary of the various parts. Part 1 – Working with Entity Framework v4 and SQL Azure (this post) Part 2 – Next Steps with SQL Azure Part 3 – Putting it all together […]
Well, earlier in the week I finally finished a Madden 2010 Franchise (Green Bay Packers). Every year I play the 30 seasons (averaging one game per season) and taking care of all the offseason tasks. Now, I present to you my summary of the Franchise experience for the latest version […]
Where to begin? If you’ve played Assassin’s Creed (the original) before and even enjoyed it a tad bit, you’ll love the sequel. Overview The sequel (Assassin’s Creed 2 – AC2), begins at the conclusion of the original (story wise) as Desmond (the character you portray in the future) is helped […]
Last week I was very fortunate enough to be able to purchase an unsold copy of UbiSoft’s recently released “Assassin’s Creed 2” – black edition. It was very difficult to acquire a copy of the black edition as it was only available via pre-order (which I did not know) and […]
Hi, well as per my annual ritual I’ve purchased Madden 2010. I’ve been buying Madden on PC, PS2 and 360 since 1995 and recently I started to question whether I should continue to do so in the face of lagging game quality, copious amounts of plainly obvious bugs and a […]
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 […]
Hi There! With some excitement brewing, I just got invitation codes to the first public CTP of SQL Azure – the successor to SQL Data Services (SDS) previously documented on this blog. Below is a screenshot of my first SQL Azure Server. As I start to develop with the new […]
There is a very good blog entry located here which lists questions every development team and team leads should ask themselves during development cycles. From the article: Whole team What can we automate? where are we "Reinventing the wheel"? what are the tools that slow us down? what tools can […]
That’s right, stay tuned for my review of Microsoft’s next release of the Windows platform, Windows version 7. The Release Candidate has been made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers already, and the public release is scheduled for around May 5th. The Beta release which has been out for a […]
Thanks to Bridger for pointing me in the direction of this excellent video of former SysInternals and current Microsoft internals guru Mark Russinovich demonstrating how to use some of the various debugging utilities with a particular view to debugging “plugins” and hosted programs which could be causing performance problems. The […]
I’ve heard a lot of confusion about Gmail and the routing of email to the wrong user account. I thought I’d repost this from the Gmail help section, to clear up confusions. It seems once you’ve managed to register an email address, no one else can register a variation containing […]
It’s always interesting to observe a couple of strong ideologues debate philosophic tenets in the public limelight. Especially when it relates to development process methodology. Whether this particular series of incidents merits much attention is anyone’s guess. However, if you hold (1) The Joel Test in any regard (and you […]
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 […]