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Public Class GeoffAppleby

Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart

April 2005 - Posts

An Open Letter to CyrusN
Recently, Cyrus (a microsofty) posted on his blog his opinions on tabbed web browsers . As soon as I saw it I started following it, dreading but knowing the sort of responses that were going to come flodding in. I was right, and it prompted me to write Read More...
It's All a Matter of Trust
Now, if you're a .net programmer, you've probably read the title of this post and presumed that I'm talking about security permissions for what trust permissions are required to execute a .net app. No, that's not what this is about. I'm talking about Read More...
I choose Evil, Joe!
Joe Cooney is currently presenting on Web Services in the 2.0 .net Framework. Nice job Joe, you're a good presenter :) There's one thing that I've found really interesting in what he said (that sounds wrong. Eveything he said has been interesting, but Read More...
Code Camp 2: I still know what you did last Code Camp
We're approaching the end of Day One of Code Camp now. It's been a pretty good day, with an excellent set of presenters on a lot of interesting things. No offence to the bulk of the presenters, but I have to say that by far the two best presenters so Read More...
Code Camp MIA
Well, here I am at Code Camp Oz ! We've had three or four talks so far, and things are looking fine. At some stage soon I'm going to figure out how to record audio on this laptop Andrew Coates has lent me so I can do some interviews . I have one question Read More...
Look out, I'm coming to talk to you!
Well, I am if you're going to Code Camp Oz this weekend. I got an email from Frank Arrigo tonight. This is his first night home out of hospital, and what's he doing? Geeking out! A man after my own heart, that's for sure :) So anyway, he says he can't Read More...
VS2005 Beta 2. I've got it. Do you?
B2 appeared on the MSDN download site around lunchtime Saturday (Aussie time). w00t! Downloaded! The team suite of course, none of this 'standard' stuff for me, thanks. I'll be harassing the clear case administrator at work to install a foundation server Read More...
What I did on my vacation
I came to write this post feeling a bit like I'd just come back to school and stuck without writing that ol' essay about what I did during the break. And I hated doing those sort of essays. So I've been putting it off. Since I've been back at work, things Read More...