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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As I mentioned in my previous post , I did a short presentation on using loop containers in SSIS. I promised a few people that I'd publish my code, so here it is . For those that didn't make it, the package demonstrates a basic ForEach Loop container.
This year I not only attended, but presented at my first SQL Code Camp hosted by Greg Low and SQL Down Under . Overall, it was a great weekend. I took a lot out of several presentations and had the chance to chat with some of the * real* SQL nuts including
It looks like Microsoft's trying to improve the user experience of their mobile devices. As a recent purchaser of a WM6 Motorola Q 9h, I think this is a great step forward. I've played with Blackberries, Nokias and iPhones and when I pick up my Q I can't
The good people at PC Mag have gotten their hands on the Vista SP1 Beta, and are apparently quite pleased with it. It seems that the performance and responsiveness of the overall system is obviously increased. The time taken to wake a machine from hibernation
New 80GB HDD and 8/4GB Flash Zunes have been announced to be released sometime in November. New features? funky new dpad h.264 and MPEG decoding WiFi sync to host 3x3 file sharing DRM has been changed to a 3 play limit (i.e. no more 3 day limit) Zune
Here's a little problem that caused me a couple of hours of pain... I've been working on an SSIS package that deals with some data in a Data Flow Task and transforms it to XML. Instead of using an in memory record set as the destination of the data flow