Two nights ago, Microsoft’s premiere Development Suite – Visual Studio 2010 – was officially released (RTM – release to manufacturing/marketing). This means that it is officially ready and final (not pre-release). You can download full trials of all the editions of the suite from the Microsoft website. The 2010 edition […]
If you are like me, you probably aren’t a huge fan of Kerberos, but it does have some advantages. When using an Active Domain (AD) account as a service account, it is handy to reduce the attack vector by minimising the chosen Domain Account’s permissions and privileges. If you are […]
You may have heard of the upcoming SQL Server Modelling suite formerly known as ‘Oslo’. The suite, know known as the SQL Server Modelling CTP, features the ‘m’ modelling language and a graphical workbench known as (or codenamed) ‘Quadrant’. I’ve been meaning to look into codename ‘Oslo’ for a while […]
Well, it’s been a busy week. Unfortunately it hasn’t left me with much time to write any meaningful blog entries – apologies. Last Friday I managed to implement an end-to-end solution for object graph serialization with Entity Framework (v4) POCO objects to and from WCF Web Services (note: for .Net […]
Wow, China just blocked all of Google’s sites. Literally just now – stunning, though hardly the last word. 31-03-2010 12:53am Beijing Time – Blocked31-03-2010 ~10:20am Beijing Time – Not Blocked Interestingly, Google is not blocked at the moment, perhaps what we had a taste of last night was a test […]
We’re a little unclear whether (Australian) Senator Conroy hasn’t been sniffing Liquid Ink (white out) between media engagements, take for example this great quote from the weekend: [1] "When you publish a list of titles of books that are banned, or movies that are banned, you don’t give access to […]
There’s been a whole lot more press on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement since the leak earlier this week. The treaty, which has been debated amidst tight security remains officially undisclosed to any public forum. In light of the recent leak, there has been a very interesting opinion piece posted […]
There’s going to be more to this in coming posts, but I thought I’d add all the articles I’ve been reading ahead of schedule. The long and short of the story is this – I’ve managed to implement round trip CRUD operations using POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) using a […]
I’m incredibly proud that someone with some integrity has had the guts to leak the entire text (including latest edits as of January 2010) of what seems to be a latter-stages revision of the not-quite-secret, but “smells bad to me” trade agreement, the ACTA. You can find a copy of […]
Well, as part of the typically moronic strategy for Windows Mobile devices comes word out of the recent MIX conference that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile 7 or “Windows Phone” will not support native applications, according to this quote from PC World: [1] “Microsoft will only support development of applications running […]
If you are running a copy of any version of Windows since Windows Vista (i.e. Vista or Windows 7) you might be somewhat aware that the Windows folder on your system drive is quite large. Indeed, it is most likely to be the largest consumer of disk space on that […]
Although many people have said it before, we can now label Obama as nothing but a cheap suit. Taking to office with a huge mandate for change, we’ve seen nothing but a Kevin Rudd style all-talk-no-substance approach to governance, which recently culminated with this unsurprising speech backing the ACTA, MPAA […]
As a dot-com bust survivor, 2010 marks a particularly sensitive anniversary for myself and, no doubt, many other Information Technology workers. This time, ten years ago, I worked as a programmer for a company called K*Grind (www.kgrind.com) which, at the time, was aimed at providing high quality media content aimed […]
Some refreshingly good news for a change – news in that the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly against the controversial anti-copyright trade agreement (ACTA) today, 663-13. The agreement, being debated in strict secrecy has been previously discussed on this blog and what we know if its provisions is chillingly disturbing. Countries […]
Today I learnt an important lesson about moving a PC from one Active Directory domain to another – the process will strip (domain) logins from SQL Server! Yes, I know this is kind of obvious and expected, but also easy to overlook. So our scenario is that we don’t have […]