Australia vs South Africa Sorry, but I turned off the television set. The Wallabies playing South Africa in Johannesburg have probably played the worst game I’ve seen in 5 years. In the 68th minute the South Africans crossed to put the score out to 46-8. There are no silver […]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
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This diagram (above) is one which I drew earlier in the week when explaining access control, reliability, trust and environment sanitation. At the time I thought it’s something I ought to blog about, so here is the blog post. I’ve always viewed IT&T systems as a triangle. At the […]
The largest Microsoft platform development conference in Australia kicks off next week. Starting on Monday, there are several pre-conference events lined up. If you head to the SQL Server two day pre-event, you’ll bump into me. The conference kicks of in earnest on Wednesday, and we have three days jam […]
Hi all, Glorious news via numerous sources (Bruce M, Sean C and this blog entry) is that Channel Ten (who are so much better than Channel Seven – see my previous entries for more info) will be broadcasting the NFL in high definition this year. Four words: bring back Don […]
Australia vs South Africa Here’s the official report on the Wallabies’ win in South Africa on the weekend. Now it’s my turn. As you would expect, I’m ready to give Channel Seven a serve for the horrible video quality. If anyone else taped (or sat up to watch) the […]
Channel 7 is delay telecasting tonight’s Wallabies vs Springboks instalment of the Tri Nations. Instead of broadcasting live (at 11pm AEST) Channel 7 is instead replaying the game at 2 AM AEST tomorrow. What on earth could they broadcast at 11pm which is better? [Edit] I’m going to edit this […]
You might be wondering why the Mini Project has stalled. This has happened because at the moment there is some debate over whether this will form the basis of a full length presentation at SQL Code Camp in October! My original plan was to publish the project as I went, […]
So a friend of mine put me onto ping servers to make blog posts more visible. Strangely enough, I think I recall this from a while ago, but he found a way to set ping server addresses for Live Space blogs hidden within Live Writer (which I highly recommend). I’m […]
Here’s my version of the Olympics. Okay, so you might have seen that one coming? Australia’s not doing too badly for a country of population circa 21 million – a total of 33 medals, 6 more than Great Britain! Now, let me ask.. Who went out and bought a new […]
Hi all. Tonight I played Madden 09 on the Xbox 360 for a couple of hours. Big improvement over Madden 08 in terms of stability, but I have a few items to nit pick. Before I forget (again) – here’s a link to EA Sports site where you can download […]
Hi All, Just a quick word to mention I found a new second hand record store on Queens Street mall in the Brisbane CBD. It’s call Egg Records and it’s near Hungry Jacks (the covered area) between where Queen Street mall and Albert streets intersect. It’s west on QSM […]
As with all good data schemas, there’s usually some refactoring as time goes by. This project isn’t immune to the shifting sands of time or perfection, and so today’s second instalment features a schema change. Below is a representation of the schema shift. To summarise, separate Actor/Director tables have been […]
Today, as promised, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released. You can download the ~800 MB Service Pack from the following location. Read about what Service Pack brings to the table here. My experience with (SP 1 Beta) has revolved around the ADO Entity Framework, but I understand that […]
Let’s kick off the Mini Project by examining the database schema. The project involves storing and manipulating data related to movies (in my case, DVDs I own). For this project I am going to concentrate on three key relationships: 1. Movies have at least one director2. Movies have one or […]
Yesterday SQL Server 2008 was released but had a rather unbalanced dependency: SQL won’t install next to a copy of Visual Studio 2008 unless said Visual Studio has been applied with Service Pack 1. Problem: Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio isn’t released until August 11th. How do […]