Hi there and happy new year. 2011 promises to be quite an interesting year, and I hope that I can continue to contribute here at Sanders Technology. To kick off the new year, I decided to revisit the Windows Workflow article I started late last year. A little while ago […]
Well, as you read this entry, you find me at a career crossroads. I’m going to apologise in advance if I’m sounding a tad bit melancholy, but at this very moment I really can’t define what I’m looking for. One of the greatest deficiencies in the IT industry, in my […]
Today I was having an off-topic discussion with my wife who is not amused at the number of potential employers who don’t really seem to understand the QA/Test Lead role (duties and responsibilities) and the number of job ads posted which significantly maim it into other roles. It made me […]
Hi There! This is an open letter advertising my services to large companies, predominantly using Microsoft technologies, who are outsourcing work to the China or Asian region. My wife and I are based currently in HangZhou, Zhejiang province, about 40 minutes from Shanghai. I’m primarily a data architect, however I […]
Hi All, If you’ve ever been curious about Domain Names, it might be worth a look at the Domain Name Tracking website. It’s got some handy domain tools like WHOIS lookup, a URI parser, and a way to look up second and third level extensions by country. and a handy […]
Hi All, The past two days I’ve been going through over 500 posts fixing up the categorization, mainly of the technical posts. It’s pretty much done now, I’ve eliminated some of the obsolete categories (which were mostly a hold over from the Live Spaces days) and added many to multiple […]
If you use Team Explorer (or the TFS client components) and have to configure to connect using a proxy, you might find yourself a little stumped. Fortunately for us former Readify and current Microsoft TFS guru Grant Holliday provides excellent insight into how to solve this problem, via Stack Overflow. […]
Hello there. Internet network neutrality has been a hot topic for some years now, and doesn’t appear to be cooling down at any time. Recently the United Nations has throw its collective hats into the ring in an attempt to form some sort of global governing body.One of the fathers […]
Hello everyone, Well, I’m back from holidays and about to get my teeth stuck into some more interesting technology. For the next week, I’ve decided to focus on a concept involving the serving of static (cachable) content – typically straight HTML – combined with AJAX and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) […]
G’Day, Well, I realise that I had a little time off between the end of September and the start of October, but it wasn’t enough. Next week I’ll be away for almost three weeks which will bring us well into the holiday season. There are a few loose ends I […]
Here is a quick guide to creating a bootable USB thumb drive or USB stick under Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 (R2). This guide is intended to show you how to create a bootable USB drive, however it is advice only. Sanders Technology will not be held […]
I always love it when a functional language goes rogue! Widely speculated for a while now, Microsoft’s F# language has been fully released as open source following a post by Don Syme recently. It would seem that the F# compiler source code has been released under the Apache 2.0 licensing. […]
What is a Botnet? Well, in a nutshell, a Botnet is a internetworked series of computers which are running distributed software. The more notorious form of Botnet (and the topic of this post) typically infects other computers using a variety of attacks and vulnerabilities, increasing their overall size and computing […]
Recently I made the horrible mistake of installing the latest version of the usually reliable Windows Live suite. For everyday use, I generally use Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Writer – both of which have been historically fairly stable until now. Where to begin?? Live Writer This very useful […]
Recently, I’ve been mulling a concept very close to Test Driven Development (TDD) but with a surprising twist. As those of you who are familiar with the concept of TDD might be aware, TDD does not strictly advocate (in all cases) a test-first methodology, but rather speaks to the testing […]