This evening I finally got around to checking out TechEd Australia’s session builder app online. It was honestly a real pleasure to see so many talented friends and former colleagues on the speaker’s list. This year, although the majority of the Level 400 sessions are infrastructure related, there’s enough Level […]
Monthly archives: August 2012
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Regular readers of Sanders Technology will know (by now) that I’m not much of a user interface person. I started off in UX about 13 years ago, but gradually migrated into back-end systems like databases, data access design and web services. Does this disqualify me from passing judgement on user […]
Overview Well I’ve been officially running the RTM version of Windows 8 for two days now. I’d previously upgraded (‘bare metal’) from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Release Candidate a couple of weeks ago, so the experience is not exactly new for me. Fresh Installation The main difference at the […]
It’s been a massive week for Microsoft. We are really in full swing when it comes to the largest release cycle in Microsoft’s history. It all began on Wednesday at 10 AM PST (Pacific) which is an appallingly wee-hours 3 AM AEST (Australian East). Insomnia had gripped me, so with […]
So the official word was that the newly minted Windows 8 RTM build and Visual Studio 2012 would hit MSDN at some point on the 15th of August (possibly sometime in the US time zone). As of writing, still nothing has been published on MSDN Downloads. So to briefly divert […]
Those of you familiar with DVD technology may be aware of the region locking system imposed on consumers by content producers and manufacturers. Sadly, this practice continues with Blu-ray as corporations continue to shoe horn consumers into handy geographic regions. This continues to frustrate consumers who legitimately import authentic discs […]
Well it’s been leaked onto the world wide web for a bit over a week now, and I’ve finally managed to devote some time to taking a look at what’s been included in the leaked SDK. Although we’ve been waiting for what seems like forever to see something of the […]
As reported across the globe, Windows 8 has officially gone RTM as of August 1st. The official release date schedule shows when you might expect to get your hands on the new version: August 15th: Developers will be able to download the final version of Windows 8 via your MSDN […]
Introduction Recently, I started building up a WCF Service Application from scratch to implement a specific set of operations from an existing WSDL. This was a little cumbersome, but gave me an excellent opportunity to extend and play around with a concept I’ve been trying to perfect for a couple […]