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• The Laws of Identity (Light)

  Posted: 28 Oct 2008 at 19:36

  People using computers should be in control of giving out information about themselves, just as they are in the physical world.The minimum information needed for the purpose at hand should be released, and only to those who need it. Details should be retained no longer than necesary.It should NOT be

• NetIDme gets seal of approval for British Board of Film Classification's new media film classificati

  Posted: 16 Jul 2008 at 11:11 by David Christiansen

  NetIDme's age-verification system has been accredited by the British Board of Film Classification for its new media download classification scheme. BBFC.online was launched in May and uses the Board's famous 'black cards’ and category symbols to enable users downloading new media content - video-on-

• NetIDme gets seal of approval for British Board of Film Classification's new media film classificati

  Posted: 16 Jul 2008 at 10:11

  NetIDme's age-verification system has been accredited by the British Board of Film Classification for its new media download classification scheme. BBFC.online was launched in May and uses the Board's famous 'black cards’ and category symbols to enable users downloading new media content − video-on-

• SlickEdit® Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio®, Engage!

  Posted: 16 Jun 2008 at 19:36 by David Christiansen

  (Full Disclosure: I obtained a not-for-resale version of SlickEdit Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio through Geekswithblogs.net in return for me blogging on my experiences) Given the opportunity to try out any SlickEdit product, I chose to trial their tools for Visual Studio. Quoting the following

• SlickEdit® Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio®, Engage!

  Posted: 16 Jun 2008 at 18:36

  (Full Disclosure: I obtained a not-for-resale version of SlickEdit Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio through Geekswithblogs.net in return for me blogging on my experiences) Given the opportunity to try out any SlickEdit product, I chose to trial their tools for Visual Studio. Quoting the following

• Wanted: Web Application UX Designer @ NetIDme Ltd.

  Posted: 04 Jun 2008 at 16:10 by David Christiansen

  Web Application UX Designer Itching for an opportunity to work in an environment where design and usability really matters? Here’s your chance. NetIDme are now looking for a designer to help us conceptualise and sweat the details of our web applications’ user experience. As a User Experience Design

• Wanted: Web Application UX Designer @ NetIDme Ltd.

  Posted: 04 Jun 2008 at 15:10

  Web Application UX Designer Itching for an opportunity to work in an environment where design and usability really matters? Here’s your chance. NetIDme are now looking for a designer to help us conceptualise and sweat the details of our web applications’ user experience. As a User Experience Design

• We are hiring! :: .Net Developer wanted @ NetIDme Ltd.

  Posted: 29 May 2008 at 22:52 by David Christiansen

  .Net Developer Salary: Competitive Salary + Benefits East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland, UK We are looking for a .Net developer to join our existing development team and play a pivotal role in further developing our suite of pioneering software products in the secure digital identity and communicatio

• We are hiring! :: .Net Developer wanted @ NetIDme Ltd.

  Posted: 29 May 2008 at 21:52

  .Net Developer Salary: Competitive Salary + Benefits East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland, UK We are looking for a .Net developer to join our existing development team and play a pivotal role in further developing our suite of pioneering software products in the secure digital identity and communicatio

• 4 Monitor Setup (Photo)

  Posted: 27 Apr 2008 at 10:47 by David Christiansen

  My desktop, originally uploaded by DavidChristiansen.

• 4 Monitor Setup (Photo)

  Posted: 27 Apr 2008 at 09:47

  My desktop, originally uploaded by DavidChristiansen.

• "Seasons", The Collective, Glasgow GFT, 28th May

  Posted: 22 Apr 2008 at 12:16 by David Christiansen

  Wednesday 21st May 2008 8.30pm Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Box Office: 0141 332 6535 From 12 noon daily www.gft.org.uk The Scottish Premiere is brought to you in association with www.bikelove.co.uk and www.alpinebikes.co.uk. Being the home venue for the Glasgow Internationa

• Glasgow ALT.NET user group

  Posted: 21 Apr 2008 at 09:54 by David Christiansen

  Fellow glasweigan Chris Canal has posted about a Glasgow ALT.NET user group being formed. You can find out more on this thread on Scottish Developers and they have a mailing list up and running on yahoo!.

• DDD Ireland - Drink, Arse, Feck, Code (Illustrated)

  Posted: 16 Apr 2008 at 10:11 by David Christiansen

• DotNetOpenId version 2.0 released

  Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 15:44 by David Christiansen

  The open source OpenID C# library DotNetOpenID has been released. This is a really exciting release that adds full support for OpenID 2.0 while preserving full backward compatibility for interoperating with OpenID 1.x. It is a mature library with lots of helps for diagnostics and debugging, and a ba

• An idea for making efficient use of your Multiple monitors for Development...

  Posted: 09 Apr 2008 at 19:33 by David Christiansen

  MultiMonitorVS, originally uploaded by DavidChristiansen. Andrew Rimmer mentioned on twitter that he wanted to make more efficient use of his multiple monitors and I thought I would share how I have managed to achieve an effective way to work with two or more monitors. I have long been an advocate

• DotNetOpenId 1.0 released, 2.0 beta also released

  Posted: 03 Apr 2008 at 22:31 by David Christiansen

  DotNetOpenID 1.0 released! Andrew Arnott The culmination of a great deal of work in refactoring, bug fixing and enhancements can be found in the latest .NET implementation of the OpenId library known as DotNetOpenId v1.0. It is free and released under the New BSD license, so give it a try! Check the

• Using Windows 2008 as your development environment - Tips and Hints

  Posted: 30 Mar 2008 at 18:22 by David Christiansen

  I, like other ASP.NET developers, have always used a server OS as a development environment - typically due to a objection to having to hack XP in order to get multiple virtual IIS hosts. So Windows 2003 was good to me, thank you Windows 2003 Server. I ran it on all my environments. Very few complai

• Released: Byron Review into the suitability Internet and Video games for children

  Posted: 27 Mar 2008 at 12:37 by David Christiansen

  Dr Tanya Byron's Review into computer video games and the internet has been released today. Dr Byron proposes new codes of practice to regulate social networking sites, such as Bebo and Facebook, including clear standards on privacy and harmful content. The report also calls for a national council t

• Developer Day Scotland - 10th May - Agenda Published and Registration Open

  Posted: 17 Mar 2008 at 10:40 by David Christiansen

  The events is being held in Glasgow on Saturday 10th May 2008 and it's free!! The agenda has now been published - http://developerdayscotland.com/main/Agenda/tabid/68/Default.aspx and there are some awesome sessions planned. Any developers who can get to Glasgow on the 10th May should register for