No not the of the smelly variety …
I’m convinced that these days here in the UK we are getting more numerous days when its extremely windy. We’re getting much more rain (last summer was almost a non event entirely due to ridiculous amounts of rain) but I certainly feel that we have more really windy [...]
This is actually pretty cool in my opinion. Someone actually placeing a cash value on some rainforest is probably a good step in the right direction for the market to actually start realise that they are in a new paradigm. The market is a subset of the environment, the environment is not a [...]
I’m not sure if I’m missing something here but a couple of hours into looking at LINQ for the first time and I almost instantly butted up against a limitation. What happens if your tables are dynamic? IE: A user of your application can create a table that is of the same structure [...]
This is a really tough one sometimes. I’ve recently had to debug an error that initially seemed a bit odd. Viewing the main window XAML in Visual Studio 2008 or C# Express just gave me the dreaded “Object not set to an instance of an object.” error. Even though Blend rendered the [...]
I can’t believe what is happening over there at the moment. Its just disgraceful. All this heading towards the Olympics as well. In fact I can’t believe China has actually been given the Olympics. They have moved out thousands from their homes and villages only to build unused empty fake cities [...]
Have just started evaluating this for my SampleSort project and so far I’m really impressed. Compared to even SQL Express this has got a ridiculously small footprint (less that 1.8mb) and which makes it really great for embedding in applications and due to its not requiring Administrative rights to install along with an application [...]
Hmm … this is potentially one of the nicest tools to come out of the Microsoft camp in living memory. Its got some seriously nice work flows inside it, a nice interface and a lot of power under the hood. But like any v1 Microsoft product I think its hit the market a [...]
Since my beta trial version of Visual Studio 2008 is in its death throws I took the plunge and have switched to using C# Express 2008 and I must say that I’m seriously impressed with what Microsoft have essentially given to me in order to carry on development of my SampleSort project. I haven’t [...]
I’m on a steady road of learning first the basics of this new (to me) technology. Coming from a FoxPro background this has been a massive change of direction and I’ve come to realise just how ‘loose’ FoxPro is as a development language / environment. FoxPro is really great at some things (obviously [...]
Well today yielded one interesting new thing about WPF 3D content and how Windows XP is setup in relation to utilising the 3D classes in the new .NET 3.5 Framework. The new 3D features that are part of what was WinFX are native to Windows Vista which actually ships with all the new sparkly [...]
