Archive for January, 2008
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
I was having a deep discussion with a friend the other day, about how WPF and Winforms controls can't overlap on the same surface. It's not really a big limitation, since WPF is so rich you'd never need a Winform Control on your surface, right? What if you really , ...
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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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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia As a long time lover of ReSharper, I finally got round to upgrading to the new 3.1 version, but I came across a minor problem after the install, ReSharper wasn't appearing in the VS2008 IDE :(. So after a ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
There's been lots of occasions where I've seen something in the US, but the company doesn't ship to the UK. Also , with the current exchange rate and weak dollar we're getting a really good deal on consumer goods, especially nice, expensive consumer goods. Mmmm Nice HALF PRICE consumer goods! ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Well, kind of, I've been offered the position :) Good to know I'm still employable hehe. Anyway, it seems the position comes with some extra baggage I didn't count on. This may well cause me problems in the longer term, and I'll have to consider whether its actually worth my ...
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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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