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Forum opened in Developers.ie
Good news the Forums are now open in Developers.ie.
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Full Text Query in SQL 2005
I don't have really the time to test SQL 2005, due alos to the lack of user interface, but I would like to ask some questions to all the beta testers.
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Internet Explorer wake up - good standards are not always easy to swallow :-)
My point on IE is also as a developer. I know what I am going to say will surely sound paradoxal (and you can call me crazy), but I love the wrong standard acceptance in IE.
Why? Because until recently, all my colleagues around me (they are not developers) were quite easily happy with the projects I developed for them, having 95% of users running well a site was quite ok, not perfect but ok in my world.
Indeed, I am not building any e-commerce site, so maybe it's different in this case.
But suddenly, all the folks in my company (and elsewhere) heard a lot of nice dudes screaming we have a better browser than IE, and it has all the standards compliances (CSS, XHTML, etc...) everybody should expect.
Of course I coud be delighted, but no and no. I am still the only developer in my company, and this make me overloaded with dozen of dozens of browsers tests forgotten in a dark corner of my laptop, some reminiscence of the prehistoric age of Netscape.
Now I am preaching against what I believe in but is it really necessary to walk backward ?
And my wrath against IE team too, who think that everything has been done in browser world, and they can sleep on their laurels.
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Internet Explorer wake up or die
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Ireland as one country :-)
To clarify one question asked, yes Ireland .Net Developers Alliance is open to all Ireland.
Unless one other .Net group xist around Belfast, you're welcome. What I wish is that you participate in our forthcoming sessions. -
Ireland .Net Developers Alliance - Register and have a chance to win an Xbox :-)
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Windows hosting in Ireland - a joke ?
I don't know for your respective countries, but here in Ireland the hosting situation is getting worst than ever :-(
Almost every single company offer now a so called Windows solution which is based on Windows 2003(Yeah cool), PHP, Perl and MySQL (Ugly and not cool !)
If you talk about support, this is a joke. After many valls, you discover that indeed they have 99 Linux guys and 1 dedicated Windows support person. -
SPV 500 please someone has an idea on how to get one ??
I am going to break a rule by asking for help not for some .Net code, but for a gift.
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Connect
I didn't blogged a lot recently. The main reason is my commitment to the community working on a usergroup built up.
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Dell X50v launched - not so fast
Only if you are living on a remote island would let you deaf to the noise created around the launch of the Dell X50v.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Irish Developers meeting
I am please to announce the first Irish Developers meeting this Monday 18th of October at 5:30PM. -
Another bunch of cool and free controls !
I was looking at some components for one of my projects, and I discovered a greta site with some amazing free controls.
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Use your Gmail space as a 1Gb storage - Cool
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Regular Expressions can be a bit of fun too :-))
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Ahh ! Buying a new gadget can be tough....
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New book
I just received a new book by Apress Pro Visual Studio.Net. Interesting reading.
Everything you need to know about VS.Net 2003. Not too much code but more about using properly the IDE. -
Web Accessibility Toolbar
This is a cool toolbar for peole like me
fightingworking on web accessibility.
I really like the way to have a toolbar with everything I need grouped in one place. -
Cute assistant to convert your code
Now here we go with a new assistant to help you converting VB to C#
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Developers Ireland first online meeting - thumbs up !
Just to report that I organised today the first Developers Ireland meeting online, and everything went well.