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 […]
Monthly archives: April 2008
17 posts
As per last year, this year I am in a Super 14 (Rugby Union) tipping comp. Unlike last year, I forgot to put picks in during the season a massive three weeks in a row! Here is how I am tracking right now: You are ranked 931 out of 5,601 […]
Hi Everyone, It just occurred to me that you can follow the happenings of days 1 & 2 via hashtags. There are a lot of great posts across all the sessions, it’s a great way to enjoy Code Camp if you weren’t able to actually attend in person.
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 […]
Hi Everyone, On the weekend I constructed a new blog located here to write about the various bottles of wine I’ve bought, opened or poured down the sink. If you have an interest in wine, or are thinking about getting into it – or even if you need to buy a […]
It’s time for another Proclamation of Doom.. This time, it’s my fair and well balanced government who are adopting the same puritanical overbearing right wing fundamentalist viewpoints which we have come to know and love from the United States government: the systematic removal of a democratic society’s right to privacy. […]
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 […]
Well, if you’re like me, you like to read some technical content when you can. Here are some links for weekend reading: Tatham, listing different state options for ASP.Net: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/04/11/managing-state-in-aspnet-which-bag-to-use-and-when/ How about this Service modelling tool: http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2008/04/09/service-factory-modeling-edition-for-visual-studio-2008.aspx Or a tool for writing ADO EF queries?: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/esql Finally, the Microsoft Security […]
Well, yesterday I had a chat with a few friends about organising to go and watch the Wallabies play this year during the annual Tri Nations series. That was, until I reviewed the ticket prices! Now, I’ve defended the pricing for a number of years, since it (can be) […]
He worked alongside the cinema greats, such as Sophia Loren, Lawrence Olivier, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Lee and John Gielgud but we will forever remember for his leading role as Judah Ben-Hur. Yesterday Charlton Heston died in his Los Angeles home, aged 83. Since his larger than life roles in the […]
Last night I watched the three (3) hour director’s cut of Oliver Stone’s 1991 film "JFK" with Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and a raft of other well known actors. I remember watching this film back in 1991 and, in particular, key lines from the film still resonate ("back and […]