November 2006 - Posts
I'm a little behind the 8 ball with this (hah! 8, get it? You will...) but a couple of weeks ago Project 8 (see?) came out! I picked it up on the weekend. I got some late nights coming up soon, me think :)
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No, this isn't a security port - at least, not security in the way that Rocky would talk about it :) Last night Jordie and I had to go a meeting at Issy's school. On the way home from picking her up (before we went to the meeting) she asked who'd be babysitting
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It happened so long ago that I don't even remember why I did it, but I've just been informed that I've been listed on 25peeps.com . You know, now that I think about it, it's pretty dumb idea. Maybe it's fine for normal blogs, but for tech blogs? I don't
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Biztalk 2006 ships with an out of the box adapter that can talk to Sharepoint Services. The only serves two purposes - posting messages (documents) to Sharepoint as part of an orchestration, or receiving messages (documents) into an orchestration from
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A lot of people have been talking over the weekend about how they've upgraded to Vista and either had it work without a hitch, or with some very big hitches indeed. My story is mostly boring - a couple of little hitches, but nothing too major. Things
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In ASP.net server controls you can specify page addresses using the tilde ( ~ ) character to specify a path from the root of the current web application. Imagine you have a site mounted on your local machine under a virtual directory called ' foo '. To
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Note: This is post is completely non-geeky, entirely personal, has no references to coding, contains only a drive-by reference to computers and the net, and links to a blog that is completely and utterly not safe for work. If you only want to read about
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So Office 2007 is out. This is good. This is wonderful. This is scary. To install the RTM version of Office 2007, you must uninstall all the beta versions of it first. Not a problem. Uninstall. But what's going to happen to my email? Oh dear. Update 10
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A few weeks ago I was discussing with Matty Cosier a new job I was starting that was going to involve doing some Biztalk 2006 work. He said that if I had any troubles with it then I could give him a call since he's used it before. Yesterday I had a trouble.
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Over the last week since I went warning free , my Community Server build has mostly been working well. The only problem that I've noticed is that emails stopped appearing whenever new comments were posted. Things looked fine as far as I could tell, but
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I thought I'd post a shot of how my Mo is going one week in (the photo was taken one week in, even if this post is a little late). Yes, I know it looks like the goatee is coming back, but it's just shadow - the sides of the mo go straight down, and that's
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My sister sent me a link to this site last week. It's a riddle site. They're really hard. I love em. I'm currently on level 56, which means I've almost finished all the ones that are there so far. Now I can't sleep. Gah! Die Deb, die! :)
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Its amazing the way language evolves. In the IT world especially, new words spring up all the time - often spawning a complete grammar to go along with it. For example, we create a new product - let's call it Spanky. Once people are familiar with Spanky,
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As has been noted in several places already , CS 2.1 SP1 came out a few days ago. After a bit of work going through the diffs and merging in the changes, I'm pleased to say that the CrankyGoblin has now been SP1ed. SP1ified? esspeewunficated? Patched!
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Note: This post was written at 1.30am last night. It's now morning - for some reason my site wasn't responding to port 80 requests. And so do my arms. Why is it that when you get deeply involved in a game you grip the controller so hard? Or is
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