Archives
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New blogging tools
I just read on - .NET Blog - Chris Frazier Style - about a new release of PostXING and a new aggregator plug-in which allows you to blog about items in your aggregator via a right-click action. The plug-in is called BlogThisUsingPostXINGPlugin and requires the latest version of PostXING to work.
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My New Year's Resolutions for 2005
- Drink more water
- Excercise more consistently
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Introduction to C# Anonymous Methods
Bookmark to read this later:
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Webcast - How InfoPath supports ADO.NET DataSet's
I just finished watching a WebCast about support for ADO.NET DataSet's in InfoPath:
Hagen Green - MSDN Webcast: Database Connectivity in InfoPath Through ADO.NET -
InfoPath book
Ordered myself some reading material for those long flights between Canberra and Adelaide today:
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InfoPath NEWBIE mistake #1
OK, so I've made my first major InfoPath blunder. Being a javascript afficionado I decided that I'd create my InfoPath forms using javascript as the codebehind model as opposed to using the new, .NET model which comes with the Infopath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio.Net.
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New tool for assisting with access namespaced xml elements
Using InfoPath lately has really made me sharpen up my knowledge of working with Xml such as querying it with XPath. Prior to the last week or so, all of the Xml that I've queried has been non-namespaced. Adding namespaces to Xml documents and nodes means that you need to set some attributes on the underlying namespace manager of the XmlDocument when you need to query it using XPath. In C# this would look similar to this:
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The benefits of fully trusted InfoPath forms
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Canberra Geek Dinner #1 - The Canberra scene
As mentioned by Mitch the other day we had a Geek dinner in Canberra the other night. It had been my intention to start these up in Adelaide next year but, now that I'm a Canberra'n it looks as though we'll have to have them here instead :-)
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ProjectDistributor - features in the next release
ProjectDistributor has been "open source" for a couple of weeks now and, in that time I've received a few e-mails highlighting bugs and also mentioning new features which should get added. I've rolled all of those requests into the code base so, you'll see that stuff in the next release.
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skmFAQ's
Scott Mitchell has created a new open source application for managing FAQ's which is worth checking out:
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Cypress Hill
Just noticed that Cypress Hill are visiting Canberra on Wednesday night... woohoo!
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Finally building real things with InfoPath
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ProjectDistributor source code now available...
I've just uploaded the source code for ProjectDistributor and it's available via the site:
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Tips for effective communication
Communication is a really inefficient activity and that's because it takes a lot of effort to do it well. This can also be exacerbated when in an environment with mixed cultures where participants may find the "listening" part of communicating a greater burden. Additionally, there are environmental modifiers that can affect the likelihood of having good communication such as: noisy environment, people who are tired or irritated, unsuitable venue, unsuitable timing, etc. Here's some tips that I have for increasing the likelihood of having a successful session of communication&
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Debugging classic ASP
Today I had to help a client debug a classic ASP application using VS.NET. I hadn't done this before and while looking for a solution I came across this excellent whitepaper for debugging client and server-side scripts:
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A quick catch-up...
I've been with Readify since the beginning of last week working in Canberra on some consulting assignments.
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Problems with CF2002 and Visual inheritance in a Wizard prototype
This week I was able to use Justin's excellent WinForms Wizard in some prototypes for handing state transition in a UI:
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IM alias list - November 2004
People that know me know that I tend to change my IM name from time-to-time. Here's a listing of the names that I used in November: