Today’s whacky statistic: "Total page views: 3995"Yes, that’s right this humble blog has almost hit 4,000 unique visits, or, 2,000 hits per year. Amazing. I wonder who will be the 4,000th visitor? My money’s on an RSS feeder. In other breaking world news of importance. Wallabies dropped the […]
Hi.. I pulled this quote out of a recent post to the ausdotnet mailing list from Rocky H. "You can not drop a file from a Medium Integrity process (Explorer) onto a High integrity process (elevated Notepad). This is actually the problem a lot of developers face with […]
…and the top reasons they’re gonna lose.. Hi.. you guessed it – a sports post.. Tomorrow night marks the culmination of the TriNations series of Rugby Union for 2007. The finale pits New Zealand against Australia for not only the much coveted Bledisloe Cup but also the TriNations trophy […]
It’s time for another ‘Random Link Potpurri’ – Check out some of these great value sites.. Here is a site for those who would prefer an alternative to iTunes for managing their iPods: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/08/10-alternatives-to-itunes-for-managing-your-ipod/ Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – February 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=50b97994-8453-4998-8226-fa42ec403d17&displaylang=en Form which […]
Hi Everyone, I’m going to be out of the office for the next few days, potentially through the weekend, so check back soon for more updates.. Cheers R
I recently had an email chat with Dr Greg Low (Microsoft Regional Director & Readify) during the week about the best naming conventions (best practices) for SQL Server (especially in the post-hungarian notiation, SQL 2K5 schema days). In fact, this is a topic being discussed (again) on the SQL Downunder […]
So, those of you who know me also know that I’m, well, a bit out of shape. To be honest, I’ve been getting progressively worse since wife and I came back to Australia from living abroad. I’ve got over the 80kgs barrier for the first time in my life, […]
For those of you who have been following every new technology but somehow have missed out on LINQ, grab the last CTP – LINQ CTP (May 06). It works fine with the Beta 1 Orcas (despite the disclaimers) and it will also work with VS2005. This stuff is pure gold. I’ve […]
At the recent architect forum in Sydney I was able to sit in on a round table discussion regarding rapid estimation exercises. I’m in no way new to the process of estimating implementation time or generating effort forecasts – I’ve done so professionally for the past eight or nine years, an […]
Congratulations, Foxtel. The company has committed to 100% digital subscription TV by 2007 (now?). However, as a friend of mine was shocked to discover on the weekend "Digital TV" does not mean High Definition (HDTV) television. Foxtel doesn’t carry any HDTV content, nor can the existing "digital" set […]
Welcome to the Advance Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). If you’ve not heard of this before, you probably aren’t using a laptop 🙂 Well, in any case, you might want to take this little tip on board..My Motion Tablet recently developed some kind of ACPI "hiccup". Everything’s been swell […]
Tonight Paul, wife and I went and saw Transformers, the new live action version with the CGI robots. Where to begin….? Firslty, congrats, Michael Bay. This isn’t Pearl Harbor: Redux (thank the merciful heavens!) but was closer to Armageddon (which I liked, for the record). Second thing to keep […]
Hi Everyone, Big shout out to Paul Stovell and Corneliu Tusnea who were also in attendance today at the Australian Architecture Forum in Darling Harbour (Star City casino, actually). Greetings also to Nigel Watson and Chuck Sterling from Microsoft who (together with a number of other fine folk) ran a really great […]
Damn, I thought I’d written a few draft blog entries for easy posting at a later date. Guess what? Nope. Well, I’m sitting here like a deer in headlights trying to remember what I was going to blog about. I never did finish that entry series on Agile estimations.. […]
G’day. Today’s topic is around the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) process methodology and how it relates to the process of gathering requirements and effort forecasting. Yes, this is going to be one of those heavy blog entries. The proper and right way to get to forecasting effort and […]