Techie ramblings of vb.net developer.
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Published on 09 Dec 2005
My perception of hard drives is that they are slow, bulky, power hungry, put out too much heat, noisy, unreliable and prone to catastrophic failure instead of graceful degradation. Given a choice I rather not store my precious data on one of these. I long for the day when an evil genius invents a s
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Published on 06 Dec 2005
I don't like my iPod or my iPod shuffle, I hate iTunes and can't find an alternative. I recently downloaded the latest version of iTunes and it spat the dummy when I connected the shuffle saying that the firmware needed updating. I went to download the firmware at 53MB! for a shuffle firmware updat
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Published on 05 Dec 2005
Scott Hansleman, Joe Stagner and Omar have put together a podcast with some useful insight on the DasBlog blogging engine. The quality is less than perfect but the content is great. Check it out if you want to learn more.
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Published on 05 Dec 2005
The short answer is if making changes to your production environment is costly then getting changes right the first time becomes vital. If your delivering software to a client then you will build confidence with the client if you deliver 'bug free' software. If you must peform business as usual tes
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Published on 30 Nov 2005
If you've ever wanted to use keyboard shortcuts for functions you would normally use a mouse for then look in Options > Keyboard. Here you can define your own personal scheme containing shortcuts you define. You can copy an existing scheme to base yours on. I leveraged this to map Go To Definiti
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Published on 10 Nov 2005
Whilst the IE team have expended vast resources to develop a Pop-Up blocker it seems someone forgot to tell the Windows Update team that people genrally despise things that go Pop. This wretched message keeps appearing on my machine and stealing the focus when it does so. If would like to feedback
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Published on 10 Nov 2005
A colleague at work got this error message when using a piece of online banking software.
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Published on 09 Nov 2005
Stephen has an interesting post on his blog about how to query the native XML data type in SQL 2005.
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Published on 09 Nov 2005
http://www.clonethegoogleapi.com/ This is an idea put forward by Dave Winer and Robert Scoble gives his opinion on the idea. I think it is a really good idea that could be applied to lots of other things like messaging.
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Published on 09 Nov 2005
They do, they really really really do, i'm biased because they are my brother in-laws band and are playing a couple of gigs in london over the next few weeks. You can find out more about the band at www.silver-lounge.co.uk you can also download four tracks, and subscribe to their podcast.
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Published on 17 Sep 2005
I just took and passed my Motorcycle theory test, this enables me to take my practical test in the next two years. It is a 2 part test first is 35 multiple choice questions which are straightforward if you read the bock "The official theory test for motorcycles". The second part is a hazz
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Published on 07 Sep 2005
When I first started using Typed Datasets I fell into a couple of pitfalls that took me a day to figure out. To prevent some poor soul from suffering like I did here are some notes. I work almost exclusivly with Stored Procedures, and i'm assuming you already know how to create a typed dataset. I d
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Published on 18 Aug 2005
About a month ago Microsoft anounced that a future version of office (code name office12) would support open XML based formats for Word, Excel and Powerpoint. If you currently use these formats then this could be a big deal for you. Our document production module at Redline Software makes extensive
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Published on 17 Aug 2005
So I decided to move my boot disk off the onboard controller on my Shuttle and on to a Sillicon Image sil3112a Sata RAID controller card. Before doing this I installed the drivers for the card, but when I tried rebooting I got as far as the windows logo boot screen and then the pc restarted itself.
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Published on 09 Aug 2005
Unfortunately my blog has been getting more and more trackback spam so I have decided to turn trackbacks off until I upagrade to v1.8 of dasblog. I hope all those trackback spamming monkeys rot in hell!
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Published on 05 Aug 2005
This post on Neville Hobson's blog caught my eye. Podcast Con Uk is a one day event with speakers talking about podcasting either check out nevilles blog or head on over to PodcastCon UK to sign up or find out more.
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Published on 02 Aug 2005
Saw a friend on the weekend who runs his own landscape gardening business in Surrey if your garden is in need of some TLC check his website out at www.JHsmith.co.uk. If you are just at the ideas stage there are lots of pictures in the portfolio section.
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Published on 28 Jul 2005
Consume a .NET Assembly from a classic ASP page. by Darren Neimke All I would add is that RegAsm lives in: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 NB Beware of parameterized constructors, i.e. defining a Sub New() with parameters, if you do this your class will not be eligible for
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Published on 28 Jul 2005
I got the above error when trying to generate a strong name key running filemon (see www.sysinternals.com) it showed that there was a file access error for me on the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto I had to give myself permissions on this folder an
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Published on 27 Jul 2005
Okay so it turns out it's all about performance (read my previous post) not forcing VB6 developers in ADO to set command parameter attributes like size and type, meant an additional round trip to the database. I don't have a problem with MS taking this functionality out for the default but the
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Published on 08 Jan 2006
Recently I heard a story on radio 4 where a man had died whilst out driving his car and the AA had refused to help his family get the car started when they contacted them. The man had been a lifelong member. The AA then issued a statement saying that their operator had acted against their guid
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Published on 09 Jan 2006
http://www.lubasi.org/ Lubasi is an orphanage based in Livingstone, Zambia near Victoria Falls, they care for up to sixty children between the ages of 5 - 10 who mostly have become orphans because their parents died of AIDS. 33% of the population of Livinstone has AIDS and so th
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Published on 10 Jan 2006
My Amigo Frank has just put up a blog so you should go and look at it now... http://www.undeliverable.co.uk/ ...stop reading this and click on the link above!
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Published on 11 Jan 2006
I keep reading stuff like this on the web "you forget to mention those call Centers are in India,Pakistan and taking away US jobs." from Channel9 's fourm I don't think job's can be owned instead I believe they must be earned and this is achieved by running companies that are efficient in
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Published on 16 Jan 2006
I have just read a couple of articles on client-side scripting techniques by Scott Mitchell of 'Four Guys from Rolla' fame. He really knows his stuff and offers great insight into whats going on under the covers in dotnet.
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