Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I noticed today that Joel Spolsky had written an entry about how complicated the Word binary formats are now that Microsoft has finally released the full binary file formats. He notes that the spec is a whopping 349 pages, and you have to digest another 9 if you're interested in ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Wow, what a film. JJ Abrams - the boy done good. To do this film justice you need to see it on a screen as large as possible, but more importantly, the sound system needs to be capable of shaking you from your seat or you just won't be getting ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
I've seen a couple of posts , the first by Jeff Atwood about what can you build in 600 lines of code and a response from Charles Petzold commenting that 600 lines is a luxury. Heh. 600 Lines. That really was a luxury. Back when I first started out ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
In trying to keep up with all things WPF, I came across a post on Charles's Blog outlining how lighting worked in WPF3D. He was having a minor problem with the effect and hadn't yet worked through how to light surfaces correctly. His test square surface consisted of only two ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Sometime ago, I happened accross this site containing images of Chernobyl, taken 20 years after the initial meltdown. I find it's an amazingly haunting experience just looking through the photographs, imagining what it must have been like when the disaster happened. Elena has done an incredible job of capturing the ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
A change is as good as a rest, so they say, so I'm off for an interview as Team lead for the Labour Market Data Warehousing Team. I haven't really had that many interviews in the course of my career, as I don't tend to move around much at all. ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Ok, so maybe I'm just too trusting, but the having all your feeds inside Outlook2007 seemed like the smart thing to do. All the incoming data in one place. Seems sensible at first, no? Well, it is, kind of, until you need anything more than the simple management tools ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
and hopefully, a lot more posts to boot.
I think it was Joel Spolsky that once said "good programmers are also good writers" , and it appears I've neglected the latter. So, as a 2008 new years resolution, i've promised myself to post at leat two quality posts per week. ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Lets hope the content is a little more inspiring than the titles!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6287628.stm
Will Spielberg make a successful cross over to games? Judging the descriptions of his first attempt(s) , the future doesn't look bright.
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
I've had the Synology Box for a few months now, and up until last night, had absolutely 0 problems. Last night, I had a Bittorrent download complete, but the status in the Download Redirector was showing "Shared Folder not found". Weird, because not an hour before I'd had two torrents ...
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