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My Code Kata–A Solution Kata
Sunday, November 13, 2011 1:53 PM
There are many developers and coders out there who like to do code Kata’s to keep their coding ability up to scratch and to practice their skills. I think it is a good idea. While I like the concept, I find them dead boring and of minimal purpose. Yes, they serve to hone your skills but that’s about it. They are often quite abstract, in that they usually focus... Read More...
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Diskeeper–a short review
Monday, May 16, 2011 9:23 AM
I have been lucky enough to be ASP.NET MVP for a number of years now. One of the perks of that is you get access to free licences of software such as Diskeeper . This piece of software keeps your disks running as smooth as they possibly can. I have been using Diskeeper for around 2 months now and am pretty impressed. It silently does its thing in the background... Read More...
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Entity Framework and the PreApplicationStartMethod attribute
Friday, May 06, 2011 2:09 PM
Recently, while implementing an EntityFramework data model into a new application, I thought I’d add some caching functionality early, to establish a framework going forward. I added the DBML (generated from a database), and added in my funky caching layer (which will be distributed as a Nuget package soon) that allows caching to be configurable switching between... Read More...
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Mix11–Day 2 Sessions
Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:49 AM
I blogged here about my Mix11 bootcamp sessions, and here about my Mix11 day 1 keynote and sessions. To continue the theme, here are some thoughts and opinions around Day 2. Keynote #2 This keynote started a little slow with some apologies and explanations around delays in Windows Phone 7 updates coming. Necessary but unexciting. After that though, things moved... Read More...
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Sydney Architecture User Group - It has come to an end
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:57 PM
Unfortunately, the Sydney Architecture User Group that Omar Besiso and myself run in Sydney, is closing its doors. It has been running for around 2 years now and we have had some great sessions, however there are a number of factors that have caused us to make this decision. Primarily, we lost our funding. Datacom (the company I used to work for and where Omar... Read More...
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My Mix11 Proposal
Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:51 AM
I only submitted one session for consideration to present at Mix this year. Unfortunately it was not shortlisted and is consequently not open to voting currently on the site. However, I thought I might post it here to gain some feedback from others as to how I might refine or change it. Maybe it is just something people are not interested in and I have taken... Read More...
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ScriptHelper–For MVC and WebForms projects
Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:38 PM
This issue might seem minor but I always forget the names (exact naming) or number of script files I need to get some features working in MVC or Webforms. In addition, in my applications that require a specific client side feature, I might need a series of dependent scripts to make it work. Failing to include all of them often gives ambiguous errors or the functionality... Read More...
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Fujitsu T900 and Fingerprint Sensor Problems
Sunday, June 27, 2010 6:00 PM
Not so long ago, I bought a Fujitsu T900 Notebook computer from TegaTech (many thanks to the great service and help I received from Hugo Ortega who runs it). Anyway, I bought a fairly stock system with 4Gb memory and a 320Gb 5400 rpm HDD. Later I updated to 8Gb memory and a 128Gb SSD with the 320Gb HDD as my secondary drive. This of course meant a full rebuild... Read More...
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iPhone Apps using Microsoft .NET
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:22 AM
My good friend Wally McClure has written a short eBook on “ Building iPhone and iPod touch Applications for the .NET/C# Developer with MonoTouch ”. You can check it out here Given that iPhone is a very popular phone and that some of the development barrier for Microsofties like me is no .Net language support (Objective-C being the native development language... Read More...
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Sydney Architecture User Group – Next Meeting: Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:46 PM
The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) ) Here... Read More...
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