Quantcast
Channel: Add coffee, and shake well
Browsing all 28 articles
Browse latest View live

Cuuuurses!

Oh well, so much for my earlier optimism - it turns out, that for the time being at least, Sandcastle can't easily be used on a build server. The problem is the Help 2.0 Compiler, which in a previous...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

One hour of heavy petting

I wonder if there's any chance of something like this taking off in Sydney. Maybe there's just something so incredibly Japanese about it that it wouldn't work, but I just love the idea.Either way, it...

View Article

This stuff is supposed to be fun

So blogged Jeff Attwood some 18 months ago, and as far as my own experience goes, he is absolutely right. When I went to university, it was to study Electronics and Communications Engineering, but by...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Topshelf

At work, I'm currently working on a project which requires the integration of several different systems, some of them hosted on the internet, and some on different sides of the corporate firewalls....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

MassTransit

Earlier this month, I mentioned the MassTransit project, an open-source .NET Enterprise Service Bus implementation, a topic sure to break the ice at a many a party.We've been getting stuck into...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

An afternoon at Lake Parramatta

The Easter weekend was a good opportunity to get out of the house for a while and enjoy some of what Sydney has to offer. Several friends have recommended Lake Parramatta, a small dam and reservoir...

View Article

SvnRevisionLabeller makes its v2 release

Recently Thoughtworks started to make available release candidates for version 1.4.4 of CruiseControl.NET. Tucked away inside there though are some changes to some of the core components, that break...

View Article

iPhone on 3

When the iPhone 3G was originally released in Australia, I and many others complained that 3, who provide some of the best 3G data plans in the country, did not sell it. There were ways around it,which...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Weird Sydney morning weather

The joys of parenthood include many early mornings. This is what awaited me this morning when Samuel woke us up. Most freaky! Any ideas what's causing this?Update : apparently it's a dust storm....

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Working with bugs

No, this is not a post on entymology; rather, it’s a bit of a lament on the lost art of filing bug reports. Though they may bestride the programming world like a colossus, even the best programmers...

View Article

Lightroom and CS3

I recently upgraded my camera from an ageing Canon EOS 30D to the newly-released EOS 7D. Jumping from 8 megapixels to 18, and adding HD video recording, as well as niceties such as Auto ISO, are real...

View Article

Baseless suggestion

I’ve been spending the past few days cleaning up a messy situation at work, where one of our source control branches in TFS 2008 has not been properly merged back into trunk for several months. In...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Synchronicity

Apple and Adobe seem to be having a bit of a dummy spit over Flash at the moment, which is polarising the developer community. Well, I opened up Google Reader to read Richard Banks’s latest thoughts on...

View Article


Mixing TFS 2008 and VS 2010

At work, we’re in the early phases of migrating our TFS 2008 setup to TFS 2010. However, since some teams have already started work on the new hotness that is VS 2010 and .NET 4, there was a need for...

View Article

Publishing .NET Applications

This is a problem I came across in my previous job at Fairfax Digital, when setting up automated builds; now that I am working at TouchStar, I’m facing the same problem, but couldn’t remember what I...

View Article


Watching Ideas Take Flight

In my last entry, I mentioned an idea I’d had before on how to make it easier to package .NET applications when run as part of an automated build. It solved a problem for me, and I thought it worth...

View Article

Unity and log4net

In my current project at TouchStar, I’ve had the opportunity to play with Unity, Microsoft’s Inversion-of-Control container. Previously I’ve used StructureMap, which is very popular, but I wanted to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Synchronicity Part 2

Last year, it was Flash crashing Safari while I was trying to read an article about the problems with Flash. This time, it’s Google Chrome crashing while I’m trying to read about why the newly-released...

View Article

A craftsman knows his tools

Those who have worked with me for any length of time will know that I’m always looking for ways to improve my ability as a programmer. It may be in researching the latest available tool libraries (my...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New Year, New Resolutions

よいお年をお迎えください。In other words, happy new year! As far as making and keeping new resolutions go, I’d already failed miserably by January 2nd, probably setting a new low. The resolution was to take a...

View Article
Browsing all 28 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images