Do you have a mobile phone which doesn’t work with voicemail or any online phone systems where you have to manually key in numbers? Most phones and handsets have no problem, but for a while now my Motorola wasn’t playing ball. It turns out that somehow the DTMF setting was […]
Hi there. Renamed in the .Net Framework 4.0 from “ADO.net Data Services” to the new – more snappy – “WCF Data Services”, today I’m going to take a closer look at what drives this latest version. If you look at the release notes there are a number of additions (as […]
Hi Everyone, Well, after a long debate – and a longer hiatus whilst travelling the world – we decided to move back to Australia, ending our year long stint living in China. It was quite an experience, and we got to see many amazing sites, plus we were able to […]
In my inbox today I found an e-mail from LinkedIn. The “LinkedIn Headlines” were especially saddening, but also WTF cringe worthy. Sometimes I just wish someone would proof read these emails before the send button is invoked:
Recently Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 systems. In the tradition of Microsoft, there are several different sources for information on Service Packs… so here is another link. There are significant advancements in the Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 release, not that much has been added […]
The IEEE Society and Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) are presenting two free public seminars on recent developments in the Internet sphere including the “Kill Switch” used in Egypt and Libya, Wikileaks and beyond. This should prove a very timely event, given the recent developments concerning the Internet, and I’m […]
Hi Everyone, We’ll be travelling back to Australia for about a week and a half from this Wednesday (24th of February), and we’ll be splitting time between Canberra and Sydney. Thursday, we’ll land in Sydney and then we’ll be in Canberra until Saturday. On late Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be […]
This morning I was trawling through a variety of websites as I usually do, and I came across an article which referenced this website called Qualys, where they have a tool called BrowserCheck. The site basically scans your web browser for vulnerabilities based on plugins which are installed. Assuming you […]
Right now, for various reasons, I’m “between projects” after relocating to China for a business venture which ultimately didn’t work out. The timing couldn’t have been worse, right on December with virtually no prospect of finding alterative employment – especially whilst being located deep in China. It is now mid […]
As you may know, tropical cyclone Yasi roared through far north Queensland on Australia’s east coast during the week. A category 5 cyclone, wind speeds were recorded in excess of 250 kms/hr and the eye of the storm was estimated to be almost 35kms in size, and the bulk of […]
There are two sites I own which use the very nice BlogEngine.net blogging engine, and over time they’ve been constantly harassed by increasing amounts of spam comments. Usually the sort of nonsensical garbage which is just trying to link harvest or some other mundane and stupid way to boost external […]
Recently, I’ve come to find a lot of spare time on my hands and today I decided that I’ve been sitting on the sidelines long enough; it’s time I got my head into the various APIs and pricing models involved in “Cloud Computing”. There’s a good reason I’ve been waiting […]
Recently I alluded to writing a series of posts on the Entity Framework Futures, now referred to as the “Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5“ which could really, really use a cool codename. Introduction If you’ve been following along on the Windows Workflow Rules Engine series of […]
A little late, but better late than never – the Entity Framework CTP 5 was released last month before Christmas, and now that I’m back, I’ll be doing a series of posts on Code First and CTP 5. This is mainly to test out the new Object Validation which currently […]
This is something I just don’t understand. We all know about e-mail spam, it has been around for almost as long as the Internet itself, however comment spam is (by comparison) relatively new and a little mindboggling. Nearly every serious blogger I know moderates comments and uses manual and/or automatic […]