August 2004 - Posts
Hello. Do you get sick and tired of chasing GMail accounts? Once you get one, then all your friends want one, and of course, you never actually get any invites for yourself? Do you get sick and tired of writing all that boring, easy, powerful, .net code
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Some breaking news has hit the streets. SPp3 for the 1.0 framework and SP1 for the 1.1 framework is out and available for download. First-off-the-mark points for finding out about it almost straight away go to William Luu for letting the ausdotnet list
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As mentioned previously, i'm working on an IE toolbar that contacts a website to get some news headlines. This means i have to support being offline. Does anyone know of an API call i can make to find out if the net is up? Also, anyone know how i can
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So who's written apps that require some sort of request over the internet? OK, of those people, who actually stopped to consider the fact that some people use proxies? Right, now of those people, who actually took the time to think of the fact that most
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I proved on the weekend that I have the heart of a romantic. First, some background. I met my partner over 4 years ago now. Our daughter is turning three in 2 weeks. We've been pretty casual about the whole marriage thing, mostly due to money constraints.
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Excuse me for moment. I need to sound off about something that's been bugging me for a while now. First an explanation of where I'm coming from. I try to keep myself up to date with the things that interest me - and, being who i am, that means pretty
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Over the last week or so, GMail have been giving out invites left right and center, it seems. I've managed to find takers for most of them, but i still have one left. So, blogging world, who wants it? Here's the terms - leave feedback on this post. For
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There's a new VS2005 Beta1 being released ...with Team System!! And this includes the Team Foundation Server. I'm excited :) I wanna play...I wanna get rid of Rational at work *grin*
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Yep, I found my first 'bug' associated with XPSP2 . But it wasn't a bug, just an interesting behaviour. At my work we develop a web based reporting application. One of the features is to export the currently viewed report as a csv file. I needed to test
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Until recently, looking back on those days, I'd say that they were pretty good. But over the last couple of nights, it seems that a) I didn't know any better back then, and b) those days were CRAP! What am I talking about? VB6. Back in the dim distant
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Well, I've done it. After numerous google searches trying to prove my assumption either right or wrong, I think I have a safe claim to make. To the best of my knowledge (i still might be wrong, but i can't find anyone else who's done it), i'm the only
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I'm really looking for feedback here, please. As i said in my previous post, I've actually managed to accumulate a hell of a lot of knowledge about programming with the web browser control in VB6 and VB.net(not the 2.0 framework yet tho). It's not knowlege
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I thought i'd do a bit of an update with my experience of VS2005 (hmm..do i call it VS2k5?). In my first post on this, I was on the bug hunt and checking the new immediately visible things. Since then, i've had a little more of a play - I still haven't
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I've been programming for what i consider to be a long time (over 10 years now). I've noticed that i've picked up a strange habit - my fingers do things that i have no control over, even when i'm explicitly trying not to do it. I can provide two examples,
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So i'm working on an IE extension. Which means i have have to deal with COM issues. 'This isn't too bad', I thought to myself, 'I've done this before'. And it's not too bad. The issues I have is that I'm going to have to install a dll in the GAC. I've
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I'm probably opening myself up for a while heap of comment spam, but here goes. A little while ago i wangled myself a GMail invite.It was at the end of the invite rush, and invites have been very few and far between. Well it seems I've now been there
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I don't normally like to make blog entries that just go and point at someone elses post - but i will when there's a good reason. This is one of them! go and leave your feedback on how you want the VS installer to behave :) Brought to you thanks to Aaron
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I meant for australia for this year, not ever! I didn't end up getting to any mroe things at tech ed. Now that it's all over I can let you in on a little secret. I went to free day - which was fantastic, as i've already said. It seems they still have
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Thought i'd make a link to this, in case people are interested. So far, the only reference i've seen was on a blog on msdn , but it's in some other language, swedish is my guess. Anyway, microsoft have released an instrumented version of the .net framework
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I'm a programmer. I'm a geek - no, i'm a NERD. Time not spent with my family or with a good book is time I spend thinking about computers. Besides all the very cool things I manage to play with as part of my job, I often give myself little challenges
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I'm running Windows 2003 at home, which is fairly nice. I've done some experimenting with all the different things which come with it, and so far (until now) it hasn't led me astray. I discovered that windows 2003 comes wth a UDDI server, so i installed
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Well, thanks to TechEd , i finally got my grubby little paws on a copy of the VS2005 Beta. Over the last couple of days i've been installing a new Virtual PC and getting it going. Has anyone missed out on checking out Virtual PC? It's a damn schmick little
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I thought I'd list some of the things I've figured out since my last post on the subject. Thanks to some feedback from Jeff Schoolcraft and David Cumps I been able to start hacking my blog pages into something close to what i want, as opposed to the standard
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Hello all! This is me (before i grew a beard, that is). And this is me now. It's funny what some facial hair will do to you, huh? Anyway, time for some info. I've been on this blog long enough that any of my regular readers have probably pieced it all
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Today was Day 1 of Tech Ed, the free day. For those who weren't aware, they opened up teched to a free for all for the first day . So along i went, since it was the only access i was going to get. Well, they kept it up to standard (i had a full ticket
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This is an interesting blogging system. I like it. I have only one problem - i can't find any documentation! I'm not actually complaining (i am, but i understand) it's a product still being developed. I have only one wish - couldn't it have been name
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While writing my last post, i made a discovery of immense proportions. The original Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy game is available online! Not that i would encourage anyone to actually pirate software, but does anyone know where i can get a copy of
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Well, it's happened. I'm being forced to take the plunge. Good thing? Bad thing? We can only answer for ourselves. Perhaps a bit of history, to show my dilemma. I first started coding in high school in my computing class. We learned pascal, and prolog.
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So, who's discovered The Kingdom of Loathing ? Man this game rocks. I don't have much time for gaming in general. Who's got the time to spend hours on it? My schedule is pretty much like this: 7am - Get up or get woken up by Issy (my almost 3 year old),
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I read an extremely fascinating set of articles on the weekend. I can't remember where i found the link now, but here [ Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold ] it is. It's a little old now (written back when Win2k3 first came out), but it's worth the
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Well, actually, just the how's. How do people post their blogs? I'm still picking up on how .Text works, i'm gonna host it privately on a home server to have a real play. I wanted a tool to make it easy to post with, somethign that was free. So i ended
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...Nevermore. Nevermore will I be blogless. Nevermore will I be lost for something to do. Nevermore will there be a chance that I might be considered 'interesting'. From now on I guess you all can see plainly that i'm a no-lifer. Such is life, I guess.
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