Something funny I discovered while playing Serious Sam HD – The First Encounter. A bit of a bug I guess.
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WPF is a great technology and in my opinion is miles better than WinForms. Unfortunately, like any technology there are always going to be shortfalls that you have to work around yourself. My company is presently developing a WPF Desktop Application that fetches images from a web server. One of the shortfalls of WPF is [...]
Tagged c#, howto, image-caching, wpfI recently started using Usenet through Astraweb which has been great. Its a great way to get files…FAST! The problem was I couldn’t find a decent client that was free, supported binary downloads and had auto repair (PAR support).
I had been using a trial of Newsbin Pro which was great but I thought there surely [...]
Before I start this tutorial I must preface this with a warning: The amount of coding in this tutorial is so minimal it is almost sexually exciting. I have found that Powershell is such a powerful scripting tool that you can accomplish tasks that would take 100’s of lines in a lot less. This tutorial [...]
Tagged css, html, mssql, powershell, sqlAs part of my daily news crawl I came across a post on iTNews by Iain Thomson regarding the Windows 7 Upgrade Path:
Data released from Microsoft on the upgrade methods for Windows XP and Vista users makes it look as though users will have a tough time installing the new operating system. [...]
I really love Google Reader. For me it is to the Naughties (2000’s) as The News was to the Nineties (1990’s). I love reading my news items in the morning, and they’re all items I actually want to read.
There’s a couple of ways that you can use Google Reader other than the regular site. Google have provided [...]
Today I found a letter which had been placed on the windscreen of my car under a wiper blade. According to the letter there is going to be some work in my street to complete some work they did a few months back. Everything seemed nominal except the date in which they are going to [...]
Tagged proof-reading, road-workGenerally, the Software Development Process is pretty clear cut.
Requirements
Specification
Architecture
Design
Construction/Testing/Documentation
Release and Maintenance
When it comes to post-release maintenance, it is an iterative process that goes over all these steps in a smaller scale. This is often referred to as iterative and incremental development. As a developer that has only been part of my current project post-release, its [...]
So I’ve now migrated from my crappy Blogger account to Wordpress. Goodbye crappy 800×600 themes and lackluster customisation options! I am so impressed in how easy Wordpress was to setup and to use:
FTP to server
Point to database
Run installation
Another biggy is that I have a shiny new domain name. What better way to represent myself than [...]
Tagged blog, domain-name