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Over the weekend (and a little before it) a few things have annoyed me. I thought I'd list them out, simply because I've got nothing else to do while sitting on the train traveling from the airport to my folks place. They're nothing big, but it passes
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This one has been hitting a touch close to home as I've watched it happen over the last week. Tom Roberts , a Telstra employee and blogger on Telstra's public Now We Are Talking blog (a corporate blog that is allegedly 'honest'), was fired last week.
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It's the right of every blogger (tech bloggers or not) to be opinionated. Every one has some strong opinion or bias towards something, there's no escaping it. In the tech-blog world, there's always been one primary biased opinion (what I choose to call
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Since VS2K5 came out, slowly but surely a few starter kits have been trickling out. I think these starter kits are a neat idea, useful to experienced people and n00bs alike. Each starter kit is simply a project template that compiles and runs without
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Well, it's over a week late, but I really wanted to blog a couple of things about the VS&SQL launch that happened in Canberra last week. I've already blogged the Launch Party that was on the night before, but this time I'm talking about the real launch
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I was doing some tinkering tonight. I created a new WinForms app, but instead of just having a start up form, like usual, I wanted to take control of it and do it old school. Now, in the Old Days(TM) 1 , all you did was somewhere in your code add yourself
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So, as we all know, VS2005 shipped less than 24 hours ago. I've queued all the bits (VS, SQL, VSTO, Visio...) for download before I left for work this morning, knowing that I'd be able to play tonight. I did well. I only called my wife once through the
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If there's one big problem I have with software it's when whoever wrote a program decided that custom drawing all their own windows is a much better way of doing things than having the operating system take care of it all for you. Given the amount of
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I've done it. They're gone. I'm subscribed to a fair few blogs, which I enjoy reading immensely (most of the time). But lately there's been a couple of feeds which just get on my nerves, and I figured it was time to do something about it. As a result,
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I like helping people. Really I do. That's actually the main reason I keep on writing in my blog. I like to think (rightly or wrongly) that some of the code samples that I write down are useful to people. I know people read a lot of my posts (especially
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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
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