February 2005 - Posts
I was chatting to my sister the other night on ICQ. She gave me some news. At first I thought it was good news. Ross Noble is coming back to Canberra ! This is fantastic! I've seen this guy live 3 times now, and he's fucking awesome. Then I thought it
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Damn quizzes! Mitch did it, I can't help but do the same. *sigh* :) I'm a white knight. Anyone got any virgins I can save? :) Here's the test . Here's the nice description of me: Your distinct personality, The White Knight , might be found in most of
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Today I discovered that the March edition of MSDN magazine had appeared online. This is generally a good thing, and if I can find the time to have a read, then I do. I was particularly interested in this one, since it's about web services - something
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Well, my first attempt at this game was complete in a matter of minutes. I'm not sure if I should be happy or not :) So, at the risk of spamming the mainfeed with it again (especially with something so big), I thought I'd run it again with something a
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After my last post on the subject , I managed to spur young [1] Darren into action. The offical decree has come from on high. Allow me to paraphrase... Hear me, mortals, and quake before my wrath. I have given much thought and sacrificed many hours of
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Update: Yes, many of you have answered and got it right. It was too easy I guess :) For thos eof you still playing, I won't name it here - check the comments to find out. Tonight I'd like to introduce you to a little quiz. I was IM'ing with a certain
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Hey, Darren ! Remember the evening at the pub after the security summit? Remember how we discussed a geek dinner in a couple of weeks? Well…we’ve been a bit quiet on the discussion front since then. So I figure it’s time to do something
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In the last week I’ve spent a bit of time playing with .Text (the current version as it exists on CodeBetter – 0.95). There’s a few things I’ve been looking into, mostly just to do with display of different things. As most of you
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Has anyone ever noticed that sometimes words mean different things depending on their context? There's a few common examples I can think of in the English language. Left. Do I mean a direction (go left, on the left, left side) or a remainder (left out,
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Rocky Lhotka posted recently about the necessity of having experience with multiple programming languages. He's also interested in other peoples histories. I thought I'd throw in my two cents to this :) I've always been an advocate of wanting every programmer
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In Whidbey we'll be getting the new concept or Partial Classes . For those who don't know, the concept is fairly simple - you can declare code for a class over more than one file. I can think of times when this is a handy feature, but I think this will
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I've been doing some playing with HTML and CSS recently. It's not that I don't know either (I think I do - if I can be told how to make something look, I can certainly do it) but I suck at design - that's why I'm a programmer, not a graphic artist :)
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I'm a sucker for quizzes, if they aren't completely and utterly stupid (mostly). I saw a quiz on Frank's blog today. I don't need to post my results - I only need to say ' me too ' :)
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It was good, thanks for asking :) It was a great day for sure - lots of fun, and lots of good information. I stayed on the MSDN track, which mostly about Team System features, so missed out on 2 of the 3 Yukon talks, which is a shame, a chance to see
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I've got a new article up, which is really just a rewrite of an old blog entry of mine - but with new and improved syntax highlighting...oh, and updated javascript to make it work better. The article shows how to make IE resize columns in HTML tables
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So, the Security Summit is on in Canberra tomorrow. I've been waiting impatiently for this for several reasons. Lots of sessions on interesting things - especially a big hunk o' Team System stuff. I should be an expert in about 18 hours from now. Lots
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I know this has been posted before, but this is mostly for my own reference (and I couldn't find the posts where it's been mentioned before, so I had to figure it out by myself). Hopefully come RTM this has been put back to the way it was :) Authors Note:
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Frank recently sent out the latest MSDN Flash newsletter . I shouldn't need to tell any Aussies reading this, since they'll have received it too, right? Right? Anyway, something he mentioned got me thinking, and I thought I'd mention it. It was this bit:
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I'm writing some HTML at the moment that includes a dynamic pop-up menu. It's only a simple little beast, using some simple HTML and javascript. Before the preachers start at me, yes, html popup menus are evil. I know this. But sometimes they're useful,
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I followed Frank's lead and Blogmapped myself. Cool :)
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I'm trying to put together my own skin to upload to CodeBetter . The way I see it, instead of the massive amounts of CSS hacks you have to put it to make it look nice, why not just create a skin? So I've learned a fair bit about it all now. I've got .Text
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I tried to do this yesterday. I honestly thought it was something easy and intuitive to do, but I'd never actually tried to do it before. Basically, I'm doing a simple little app that lives in the systray - and the easiest way to put something in the
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This is too cool not to link to. Found via Chris Garrett . Awesome Mouse Mod.
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We should all know that I prefer VB.net over any other language. I don't need to go into my reasons here. However, I'm not a VB Gumby (tm) - that is, I'm not a dumbass VB coder like the stigma that is associated with us all. I know how to program in C
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Well, summer's not over yet in Australia. But it's obviously over enough, because things are starting to come good on the TV front. Actually, that's a bit of a lie. I don't watch a whole heap of TV. Of what I do watch, half of it's only shown in the off
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I've been playing with Whidbey for a while now, checking to see different features that have come in, and the occasional little code test to see if this has changed, or that is faster, etc. But I haven't developed anything using it. It's only been a toy.
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I haven't used very much of the 'Articles' part of .Text yet. I've only got one so far that I've taken the time to write. However, back when I was on DNJ, it was the highest hit page of anything I'd written. Really highest. Lots highest. The transition
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A few days ago, Ben Reichelt asked a question of us all: What do you use to write blog entries? So, in the spirit of copying (a la code reuse :), I thought I'd answer the same way Mark did - in a new post. I'm actually pretty happy most of the time using
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Do you remember a year ago or so (or even more, for some) when the first little inklings of what Whidbey was going to contain started appearing? Those days are gone, with Beta2 shipping (they say) 'Real Soon Now'(tm). But a new one has started up. I've
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I have a feeling that the team at GMail are cycling up for an influx of new users, and (I'm really guessing here) a removal of the 'Beta' part of 'GMail Beta'. I just checked my mail and noticed this: Gosh. Normally you're lucky to have 10 of the buggers
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It's time to make some music, it's time to light the lights It's time to put on makeup, on the Geoffy show tonight! You know, now that I start to think about it, I don't think I've ever worn makeup. Not my face anyway - and I'll leave it up to your imagination
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