Archive for December, 2006
Today I had record stats on my blog. I passed the 200 hits per day threshold. Since Mitch Denny told me the kind of visitor numbers he got on his blog, I’ve been operating with a bit of an inferiority complex. At the time I was peaking at about 20 hits per day and at [ READ MORE ]
Kevin Hoffman has written an excellent article showing some gorgeously powerful code for integrating LINQ, and WPF. It shows a very nice example of the new object creation syntax as well[ READ MORE ]
Memetically, I’m lying in my bed sweating till the sheets are drenched. Memetically, the family is stood around the foot of my bed and the priest has been called up from the village. Memetically, I am raving while the hospital staff tie straps to my arms and legs to prevent me from hurting myself. Memetically, [ READ MORE ]
…the weather forecast is not for fair, sunny, rain or fog – but smoke! what next? Melbourne 451F Flames[ READ MORE ]
NASA Ames research centre have announced a collaboration with Google to make available the gigaquads of data that they have gathered over the years. Hopefully this should make available data from lunar expeditions and some very interesting satellite imagery. I don’t know whether this will include data from things like the Hubble space telescope, but [ READ MORE ]
As you may have already gathered, I have some reservations about the value of Agile and XP methodologies. I’ve even gone so far as to say that they are a license to cut corners. I just read a very interesting post by Tony Wright, on the relative cost of fixing a bug in different stages [ READ MORE ]
Introduction In recent weeks I’ve been decompiling LINQ with Reflector to try to better understand how expression trees get converted into code. I had some doubts about Reflector’s analysis capabilities, but Matt Warren and Nigel Watson assure me that it can resolve everything that gets generated by the C# 3.0 compiler. I am going to continue [ READ MORE ]
Aymeric put me onto a cool application called Neuro Programmer 2 (from the sinister sounding Transparent Corporation – makes me think of Umbrella Corporation), that generates brainwave entrainment sessions. We tried out one called Caffeine Replacement, and were quite amazed at the effect it had on us. We both ended up euphoric afterwards. That got [ READ MORE ]
I recently installed Vista on my laptop and needed to install Virtual Server 2005 R2. I ran into loads of problems, such as “std::wstring::find() failed” and “LsaRegisterLogonProcess()” failed. If you experience any of those problems, please check that you have done the following: Done all of the recommendations in this post: http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/archive/2006/10/18/running-virtual-server-on-vista.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage Set up the [ READ MORE ]
While I was out trawling the web, I came upon extisp.ico.us – an extremely cool little CGI app to render a tag cloud of a user’s public links in del.icio.us. Check it out on a friend’s collection – it gives you an insight into their mind. As Aymeric, who sits beside me, said when he [ READ MORE ]
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