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For those on twitter, you may have noticed that my latest posts look a bit different to my old ones. I’ve finally made the decision to move my blog across to WordPress (event though I’ve had an account for 6 months). I’ve updated my feedburner feed to...
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A couple of weeks back I released a new version of VMC Remote. This new version may not look different, but it definitely acts different. Under the covers I've changed a lot of the way the remote functions in order to allow for multiple connection and...
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One thing that's annoyed me for years when using SQL Server 2005 was that there are many inconsistencies in the UI. You'd think that the most obvious of these would be fixed in subsequent releases... The most obvious one that I've always noticed is the...
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On Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending Remix 08 in Sydney. The day really started on a high with the keynote. It opened with a video that showed off a few cool applications that have been developed in Australia using some of the latest Microsoft technologies...
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Over the past couple of months I've put a fair few hours into a little side project of mine. The purpose of the project was to create a remote control for Vista Media Center PCs that would run on Windows Mobiles. I'm happy to announce that I've finally...
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I started working for a new client a couple of weeks ago. This client provides a customised solution for PowerPoint with many weird and wonderful functions. Part of the work I'm doing here is helping them migrate their solution to work with PowerPoint...
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I've been writing up some demos for the Readify Pro .NET 3.5 course over the past couple of days and on a couple of occasions I've run into the situation of needing to time a set of operations. The way I usually approach this is to get the time from DateTime.Now...
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This week I've got the "luxury" of working from home. After my last 1-2 week stint of this back in March, I've decided to tackle things a little differently. Firstly, I'm not breaking my routine! I've been going to the gym every morning for the past 7...
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I'm famous: http://blogs.technet.com/itproaustralia/archive/2008/03/06/technet-vodcast-of-the-sydney-heroes-happen-2008-event.aspx Watch out for the good looking guy at the end... :-p I had a great time the other day at the launch event. It was great...
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I managed to download and install IE8 today, after hearing it was available from the Microsoft web site. The overall setup experience was quite painless, and it managed to keep all my settings from IE7. The first page that loads after installing introduces...
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Scott Hanselman posted about some cool Visual Studio themes so I thought I'd put mine out there. As you can see, it's the simple white-on-black. It uses blue class names, purple strings, orange key words, and yellow highlighting. One of the things that...
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I was considering getting a KVM the other day, but stumbled across an open source application named Synergy . It's a pretty nifty little app that lets you share a keyboard and mouse across two or more machines. This means that I can have my laptop sitting...
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It seems to be a growing trend to decentralise your online services nowadays. In particular, everyone is moving away from these self-hosted environments and moving towards popular services such as Flickr and Wordpress , and Live Spaces . I've only recently...
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Today was my first day presenting at RDN . It also marked my second and third user group presentations ever. I can quite safely say that I am one of the least presented members of the Readify team, which is the main reason I took up the challenge of presenting...
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For a little while now I've noticed my back pain has been getting worse and I think it's a result of leaning in close to my laptop to try get on eye level with it. So I bought one of these Alto Cordless gadgets on the weekend for my desk at work. My overall...
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I received this email from Boost Juice Bars today. Unfortunately, they're cutting off the 10% discount for Vibe members. Very sad news... Dear V ery I mportant B oost E nthusiasts, Over the last few years we have been fortunate enough to give our VIBE...
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For those of you who've heard/read my name and wondered about its origins, Wikipedia has a little entry on it - Doukas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Here are a couple of extracts... "Doukas or Ducas is the name of a Byzantine family allegedly descended...
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Last week I posted about my PD experience , including work on the new ASP.NET MVC. In this post I mentioned that there is a bug in the MVC that doesn't allow you to access control on an MVC content page from the code-behind. Well, today I found a post...
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Ok, so I just posted less than an hour ago, but now I've found something worth talking about. :) After working my way through Phil Haack's blog on TDD with DI using StructureMap , I found a few things that I thought may be helpful. Firstly, don't try...
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After a great start to the new year, I've taken the first three days back at work as PD days to catch up on a few things I've been missing out on. I've had to push my learning curve to the limit, but I've managed to cover off quite a few topics and summarise...
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I recently did a bit of work on generating Word 2007 documents using OpenXML. Basically, I had a standard XML document and I needed to generate a Word document from it. The process I came up with involved creating a "template" document in Word, examining...
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I've finally got my new computer! :) It arrived about 2 weeks ago and I've finally got everything up and running just the way I like it. Specs Dell XPS m1330 Intel Core 2 Duo T770 @ 2.4GHz 4GB DDR2 667MHz RAM 64GB SSD Hard Drive NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS...
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Ok, so I'm back from Bora Bora and it's back to work... :( I've uploaded a few of my photos from the holiday here . Overall, we had a great time and came back very relaxed. We got the chance to do a bit of snorkelling and canoeing, which was a lot of...
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Clare and I have decided that we deserved a bit of time to our selves, so we've escaped to Tahiti for a week... :) Today is our second day in the beautiful island of Bora Bora. We're staying in the Le Meridien resort and absolutely loving it. We have...
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As a recent purchaser of a set of bluetooth headphones, I frequently run into the situation of loading a media file before realising that the wrong default audio device is selected. As a result, I've had to shut down IE or WMP in order to change the default...
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