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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Molly alluded to it cryptically in her Rebuttal to Zeldman's Criticism of the W3C when she wrote that the CSS Working Group is finally aware that it must include at least one classically trained artist and graphic designer on the team.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
As if by magic, my RSS feed in Outlook 2007 brings me another interesting perspective on how to give great presentations. Garr Reynolds' blog Presentation Zen is a must-read site for anyone interested in finding new ways to make their presentations punch harder. And this post makes an interesting comparison between the "conventional" Bill Gates and the "unconventional" Joe Canada approach. The smart money's on the latter. Watch the video to see if you agree.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
...I'm ashamed of myself.
I played the TechNet search supremo game today and only scored 821 points.
Why am I ashamed? I spend 4 hours creating over 30 of the questions (and multiple choice answers in the game). And I still couldnt' get it right. Hopeless eh?
Go on - give it a go - and humiliate me further :-)
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Spotted this post on ASP.NET and ADO.NET best practices, it's not an exhaustive list, but there is some good advice there.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
I'm using a couple of laptops - one is nearly three years old and for some bizarre reason only the "M" and "N" keys are loosing the symbols printed on the key. I could understand if the vowels were wearing out.
Someone helpfully suggested that I probably type "M" for "Microsoft" pretty frequently but in that case surely "O" would be even worse.
I've heard of more and more people who are finding that they're wearing out laptop keyboards and power supplies as often they're powerful enough even though they're several years old.
Of course the increased use of virtual machines for testing purposes on laptops does tend to demand additional power but for general purpose use it seems that rarely is the latest and greatest hardware required.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
..well cheer up as I've come across this nice bit of Javascript...read more
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
..well cheer up as I've come across this nice bit of Javascript...read more
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Over the weekend, I did some work on the OpenNETCF sites to make them friendly to
Pocket Internet Explorer. One of the design decisions I made, good or bad, is that
you will need a QVGA or higher resolution device to view them in their full glory.
If you go to the OpenNETCF Consulting, OpenNETCF.org or
our aggregated blog on a Windows Mobile device
you should see the new mobile sites.
As a footnote, currently, none of the individual blogs render elegantly in PIE as
they don't yet have the correct stylesheet.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
UK scientists have developed an adhesive plastic based on the sticking power of the gecko's foot.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Just a quick post to say that Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 anfd Forefront Server Beta (formerly known as Antigen) are now available for download
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
<Touchyfeelystuff>
I've been away for a good few weeks as I haven't felt too good.
I won't bore you with the details but i'm back now.
All I'll say is that it's good to talk :)
</Touchfeelystuff>
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Screenshots of websites such as mcdonalds.com, lego.com and bestbuy.com from 1996. Worst of all, pepsi.com. Yikes. All via eKarjala, by the power of the WayBackMachine.
Chuquet.com has collected the pointed humour and erudite discussion re the above at
OhGizmo!
This is Jordon Cooper's weblog
kottke.org
Look At This...
The J-Walk Blog
technorati tags:internet, 1996, screenshots, waybackmachine
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
I’ve just put up the latest “Journey to the 2007 Open” podcast at the Carnoustie site. Check it out here.
Tags: Golf, Open 2007, Carnoustie
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
So I was a really good BBQ the other week. (Hi Spencer)
Anyway a friend of mine who gate crashed the party brought his 4GB card to show me as it wasn't working in his new Toshiba M5.
He was looking for me to format it using a formatter for the PPC. We tried it, but no luck...
Upset that he couldn't get the other 3GB's out of his card he trawled the net... He eventually found the answer here...
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=130856
Trust the Aximsite to know it...
He...(read more)
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
So I was a really good BBQ the other week. (Hi Spencer) Anyway a friend of mine who gate crashed the party brought his 4GB card to show me as it wasn't working in his new Toshiba M5. He was looking for me to format it using a formatter for the PPC. We...(read more)
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
So I was a really good BBQ the other week. (Hi Spencer) Anyway a friend of mine who gate crashed the party brought his 4GB card to show me as it wasn't working in his new Toshiba M5. He was looking for me to format it using a formatter for the PPC. We...(read more)
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Some "beta" work in progress shots of the simpsons movie coming OMG OMG OMG july 27th 2007 hosted on YouTube...
Clip 1
Clip 2
Cant hardly wait.... hmmm isnt that a name of a movie? Ahh bugger it! And another clip The Simpranos for the sake of the good times...
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Some "beta" work in progress shots of the simpsons movie coming OMG OMG OMG july 27th 2007 hosted on YouTube...
Clip 1
Clip 2
Cant hardly wait.... hmmm isnt that a name of a movie? Ahh bugger it! And another clip The Simpranos for the sake of the good times...
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
BT signs a deal with Universal Pictures enabling customers to download films on the day of their DVD release.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Each coffin represents a single person killed in the on-going conflict between Israel and Lebanon. With this page, I am trying to show how disproportionate the whole war is.
No comment needed from me.
technorati tags:middleeast, israel, lebanon, conflict, deaths, hizbollah, imbalance
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
A revised version of the VM Additions which supports current public builds of Windows Vista Beta 2 (5384, June Refresh Build 5465 and July Refresh Build 5472) in Virtual Machines is available. If you aren't already registered for the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta program, sign up through http://connect.microsoft.com where the additions are available. The additions are version 13.709.
Be sure to uninstall any previous additions first.
Cheers,
John.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Following a comment from the uLinkx team in my article about Dabble.com, I thought I'd check their site out.
ULinkx are a Dabble competitor in the 'organize your online media' stakes. They got their site up and running in May, so they are relatively early to the table. ULinkx is Labelled as social media organizer: this means music and video playlists, friends and tags.
Founders Sreekanth Kannan and Saket Kumar (correct me if I've missed anyone out there, guys) have been energetically marketing their app with blog comments and emails to influential bloggers.
The name...sounds like a parcel delivery company to me. 'Dabble' isn't much better, but I can 'dabble' with video; I can't 'ulinkx' with video. I could mention to a mate over coffee, "Hey, have you checked out Dabble.com?" but I can't see myself saying "Hey, have you seen ulinkx.com yet?". Go on, say it to yourself...it doesn't work.
Naming gripes aside, the user interface is clear and sparse, if slightly lacking in glitz. Designed by programmer, maybe?
The process of searching for videos and adding them to your playlist is nice and easy. You search, you click 'add to playlist' on the videos you like and the preview shot appears in your playlist sidebar. Good and simple.
You can only search one video site at a time - Google Video, YouTube, Yahoo or iFilm. It would have been cool to have integrated results from all four sites, but that's a 'Would Be Nice' feature.
There are a few minor bugs. The YouTube search crashed one time and mangled the UI slightly. I ran the search again and everything recovered fine.
However, as I moved on from the Video search, things became a little more muddled.
The music search had me baffled from the get-go. I was presented with a list of results even though I hadn't entered a search term. I entered several different search terms, and kept getting the same set of results.
When I clicked on one of the 'results' it appeared to show me some details of a track on someone's playlist. I could play the track and rate it, but how had I got here? Why was I here?
Maybe my music searches were getting no hits. So I tried a search term based on one of the track names I could see, and I got a hit. ULinkx offered me a list of tracks that I could add to my playlist.
Other menu options suggested I could 'Import' music from other sites. Would the music I imported be added to this big list? I tried doing an import using uLinkx's bookmarklet. This seemed to work fine and found all the media I was looking at. Was it added to the big list of music? I'm really not sure, because I couldn't find the imported tracks with the music search function after I completed the import.
I moved on to the 'socialize' menu option. This presented me with a big list of uLinkx users. There are 217 of them at the moment, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that uLinkx is not attracting the masses.
Working with the user list, I could browse their details and add them as friends, but it wasn't obvious to me why I would do that. It would have been good to be able to find people who shared common interests based on tags, video searches or music tastes. If there was a way of doing that, it wasn't clear to me.
Finally, I checked out the FAQ in case it could shed any light on my general bafflement. It didn't; it's not finished yet.
Clearly uLinkx is a beta product. It's got a potentially good UI and a smart video search/playlist function. The UI needs a little designer input.
The behaviour of the music search needs to be crystal clear to users when they first hit the site if these guys want to get any traction with the very active social music playlist scene on the web; the barrier to entry is very high.
Would I use uLinkx? No, not yet.
technorati tags:ulinkx, social, media, organizer, youtube, video, playlist, share, music, import, ifilm
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Students increasingly own an expensive range of personal items from MP3 players to iPods, a survey suggests.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
The body that runs the .eu domain has suspended 74,000 names which it believes were acquired unfairly.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
It's pretty straigh-forward to use System.Reflection namespace to obtain information about the currently executing method:
MethodInfo method = MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod();
return method.Name;
However, I recently had to write a function (for a logging component) which had to figure out at run-time the name of the calling method. To do this I used StackTrace object in the System.Diagnostics namespace:
StackTrace trace = new StackTrace(1, false);
if (trace.FrameCount > 0)
{
StackFrame frame = trace.GetFrame(0);
System.Reflection.MethodBase method = frame.GetMethod();
return method.ReflectedType.Name + "." + method.Name;
}
A stack-trace is a list of frames, each corresponding to a method instance along a call-graph. The very first method in the call-graph is the currently executing one; the second method is one which called the currently executing one; the third is the method which called that, etc.
When I instantiate the stack trace, above, I tell it to skip the first frame (the current method). Therefore, the first frame in my instatiated stack trace should be the calling method. Voilà!
Incidently, I'm returning here the name of the class (the class is represented by the method.ReflectedType property) as well the method name.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Allegedly the biggest hole in the world. It's a diamond mine near Mirna in Eastern Siberia. Cool! Big holes rock!
This is the kind of stuff that makes me act like a kid and start hunting Wikipedia for other 'biggest in the world' type factoids.
I found the lowdown here - but be warned, this blog spawns popup crap.
Fark found it before I did.
technorati tags:giant, hole, manmade, photos, diamond, mine, fark, cool, bigholesrock
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
From Angus ...I downloaded this session, Build Your Next Generation Internet Site Using SharePoint Technologies, by Jackie Bodine from MIX06 a while ago and completely forgot about it until a partner mentioned it. This session is great if you are interested in using MOSS 2007 for Internet Sites and you will also see a killer masterpage based on Xbox.com.More
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
From Angus ...
I downloaded this session, Build Your Next Generation Internet Site Using SharePoint Technologies, by Jackie Bodine from MIX06 a while ago and completely forgot about it until a partner mentioned it.
This session is great if you are interested in using MOSS 2007 for Internet Sites and you will also see a killer masterpage based on Xbox.com.
More
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
From Angus ...
I downloaded this session, Build Your Next Generation Internet Site Using SharePoint Technologies, by Jackie Bodine from MIX06 a while ago and completely forgot about it until a partner mentioned it.
This session is great if you are interested in using MOSS 2007 for Internet Sites and you will also see a killer masterpage based on Xbox.com.
More
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
A hearing on the future control of internet domain names is held by the US Commerce Department.
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
On Thursday 27th July, I delivered two sessions at The Community Conference NRW06 in Dusseldorf. The travel started today!
This was my first visit to Germany, I was lucky enough to have a trouble-free journey to Dusseldorf: Edinburgh to London Heathrow then on to Dusseldorf. There was a little excitement on the [...]
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
Those very early days of the Web, those where Yahoo used to count the number of websites it indexed in the hundreds, not the billions, those days when only real Web Developers knew how to write HTML - those were the days.
You'd visit a web site and you'd see the man working away - helping you understand the site was not quite finished yet - but you really should come back shortly. The Mighty "Under Construction" man diligently built the web for many years - when does he ever get a thank you - well Mr Under Construction, I salute you! You paved the way for the Internet as we know it. We thank Broadband internet access and Flash for changing the way we used to web, but in reality Under Construction Man, it was you that changed our view of the world.
The pages you'd go to would greet you with a melody of infinite quality, we didn't need MP3's and 5.1 surround sound in those days - oh no, we were happy with a tinny representation of the A-TEAM in Midi format (look at the kids - they don't even know what Midi is!). Now-a-days when do you ever go to a web site and share in the creators musical tastes? Never. How can we get to know the authors personality now? Oh yes that’s right – with emoticons. A Smiley is in characters :-) not an image – lord, think of the bandwidth of all those smiley’s being images back in those days… tsk.
We didn't need site maps in those days - lord no - we were happy to trawl through page after page of animated background and pink text looking for that special nugget of content - and I'll tell you now, we were happy - I mean - who wouldn't be - we had the world at our fingertips.
What about marquees, they were great, and blink, blink was a fantastic feature.
Popups? In our day they didn’t even exist, we didn’t have adverts let alone ones that took over your PC – tabbed browsing? The OS can have multiple windows open at the same time – that was our tabbed browsing.
Mankind has taken a step backwards. Web 1.0 was like the Concorde, ahead of it's time. Alas - it has been replaced by Web 2.0 which might well be more efficient and quieter - but where's the excitement, the real sense of adventure and the adrenaline? I implore you - Use the Under Construction Man, Embed that Midi File of the M.A.S.H. theme tune, add the Scrolling Marquees to the site, Enable the Animated Backgrounds, use impossibly complicated color schemes and make damn sure you use Fuchsia!
Bring back the Web!
Vive La Revolution!
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
A day before release! Firefox 1.5.0.5...
Firefox 1.5.0.5 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Windows | Mac | Linux | Others
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Published on 26 Jul 2006 from
A day before release! Firefox 1.5.0.5...
Firefox 1.5.0.5 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Windows | Mac | Linux | Others