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February 2004 - Posts
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As you can see, I have been reading a few books over the past couple of weeks. I also just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time . The book is written from the perspective of an 15 year old autistic boy called Christopher and it is Read More...
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I have also finished A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I have read all of is books now I think and I have enjoyed reading most of them. I thought that this one was a little hard going though, but maybe that was because I was trying Read More...
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I read Holes the other day. I really enjoyed it, it's a nice mix of fairy tale and hard reality in the form of a Texas work camp for juvenile delinquents. It must be a pretty easy read because I read half on the train/tube journey up to one of my customers Read More...
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Good article here about how to secure your development workstation. No use to a developer of course, because every developer in the word runs as local admin anyway otherwise nothing works J Read More...
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I just came across this site this site that aims to show what is possible with CSS . I have struggled with CSS in the past (and eventually given up), but then frankly all of this UI stuff is just voodoo magic to me. I don't think I'll ever create a site Read More...
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Justice Department lawyers have recommended that the U.S. government seek an injunction to block Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. on antitrust grounds, dealing a major setback to Oracle's hostile $9.4 billion bid for its software-industry Read More...
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I went to help a customer out with some performance issues they were experiencing with their VB and VFP(!) COM+ application. A bit of a blast from the past and it dragged up a whole bunch of stuff I had put to the back of my mind. One of these things Read More...
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I found this on Ian's blog . This is a great way to get the message across. I know that I for one am guilty of not really thinking about where animal produce comes from, it's too nasty to think about. Luckily we have a farm shop just across the road from Read More...
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Interesting. Oracle has upped its bid for Peoplesoft by 33%. This puts it at $26 per share compared with its original offer of $19.50. "This is our final price," Oracle Chairman Jeff Henley said Wednesday. "We urge PeopleSoft's directors Read More...
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Well as you can see, I have recovered all of the posts I lost whilst testing on the site. Luckily I had posted them through NewsGator so I still had a copy of each (it goes without saying that, as I am an IT professional, I didn't have anything backed Read More...
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I was talking (I think it was with Mike again) the other day about how the single document interface for IE is not ideal. The problem is that you want to branch off from a particular page when you see something interesting but not lose the linking page. Read More...
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Wierd - I just bumped into this blog entry from a customer about a day that I spent with them last year. Actually Alan has summarized my guidelines for exception handling in .NET (or any other environment for that matter) quite nicely, so I am going to Read More...
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We watched a great episode of Channel 4's Grand Designs the other day. For those of you who have not seen it, this programme is about people who embark on self build house projects (something that is not that common in the UK). This is the fourth series Read More...
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I remember my Dad sending me a few years ago, but I just stumbled upon it again. Apparently I am a registered sex offender! Funny, though, because they must have caught me at a really bad moment when they took that photograph. http://www.dps.state.ak.us/nSorcr/asp/offender.asp?LOOKUP_KEY=500966 Read More...
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A flower that changes colour when in close proximity to a land mine! http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62066,00.html?tw=rss.TOP Read More...
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It seems like we could be about to see campaigns against large IT companies much like those against Nike et al during the late 80's/early 90's. Many large IT companies (such as HP) produce goods (printers for example) from factories in areas where the Read More...
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Apparently I am a .NET 247 VIP. That's pretty good going considering that I haven't even visited the site before! It seems that they rip through the public newsgroups looking for interesting posts to replicate on their site. If they see that you work Read More...
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Seems like EMC are doing pretty well at the moment. One thing that has been puzzling me for a while is what they want with VMWare though. Now that I find out that they have been buying other software companies (such as Documentum), it all makes a little Read More...
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For those of you who don't remember this or don't live in the UK, we have a census every 10 years or so where every citizen is required to fill in information about themselves. The last census wave threw up 'Jedi' as a new, popular religion in this country Read More...
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Just came across this Longhorn developer FAQ on MSDN. Good stuff. Read More...
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Just came across this article about the lack of a linker in .NET. Interesting point, but I think that we have been trying to get away from statically linked binaries for some time now. VB was the first step, as it too had a large runtime prerequisite, Read More...
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I have just finished reading Snowblind: A brief career in the cocaine trade . It is about a cocaine smuggler, alias Zachary Swan, during the early 70's. If you ever wanted to know how to smuggle stuff through customs, this is probably the book to read! Read More...
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For a while now I have been using VirtualPC for all of my development. I find it really useful to split up builds with devtools and my main laptop build that I use for Outlook, news reading, Office stuff etc. No matter how disciplined you are, you always Read More...
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When doing some testing and you want to clear out the database for the test user only , don't simply issue "delete from blog_content". D'oh. :-( Read More...
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