Not to be big headed but recruiters often tell me that my resume is awesome/ best they have seen in a long time/ very impressive etc. Good job I did not let it go to my head, during today’s blog-catch-up-a-thon a stumbled across Scott Hanselman’s resume: http://www.hanselman.com/resume/ScottHanselmanResume.htm Can anyone beat that? Overly ambitious and hard [...]
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This is a good summary for those that have not heard the term yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX maps.google.com is a great example of an AJAX app; not that I will be doing this kind of development anytime soon ever, but it is useful to know of new trends. Personally I would choose SmartClient for internal apps and some kind [...]
Thanks to Michael E for this. Over the weekend, avec new laptop I started the switch-over to less DIY on the house and more tech (this is all planned, and it is time to catch up with and Keith and Michael again). Not that a day wrestling with a core aerator and hundreds of pounds of [...]
Some time ago I posted in a summary of this technique, and over the weekend I ran across this much longer and more comprehensive write-up on Martin Fowler’s (the Prince of Enterprise Architecture) website: http://www.martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf Concepts like this is far more important than knowing about the newest uber-widget or latest architecture buzzword. When SOA is a dim [...]
Preparing for the Wedding meant I did not have the time to attend and my ticket was sadly turned in. Rob Zelt who I know from Raleigh posted a short review: http://www.robzelt.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=bbd1572c-853c-404e-b68e-bdc389a8c9fd
This is great to see. Not wishing to stir the waters with my Java/ Linux buddies I will say no more; you can read all about it at the Beeb or Google it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3428673.stm http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=bill+gates+knighthood&btnG=Search+News
For a while I was thinking of adding a CAPTCHA to this blog but the comment spam was pretty low. It seemed easier to remove spam manually, than modify and re-compile .Text. Last week the spam got silly, so I now use Miguel Jimenez’s HIP-CAPTCHA control: No compilation of the .Text source is required! It [...]
In the USA I have noticed waiters at higher end restaurants often whip away the white napkins, leaving black ones in their place. This has been puzzling. It even got to the stage where I Googled ‘Black Napkin’ once, but still did not find an answer. So for years this has been a mystery. Was [...]
SP1 has been available since the 12th December 2004: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b07c9ef0-265a-4237-ae3b-25bc8937d40f&displaylang=en It certainly makes virtual machines start faster and feel more snappy. Before upgrading remember to shut down all your virtual machines first otherwise they may not work after installing SP1. A personal VPC bugbear was using VPC over RDP – the mouse was out of [...]
Did you know that Java does COM Interop? Well using the MSJVM it can. Recently I deployed a project where a .Net Windows Service uses an externally supplied Java COM dll + associated jar file to communicate with IBM MQ. This is wonderful; Microsoft, Sun and IBM technologies playing together – a beautiful Interop example. [...]
