June, 2008

Slightly off topic but sci-fi enthusiasts, like myself, will be pleased to read the following Scotsman report : "the original film is to be remade, featuring a £25m budget, stars of the calibre of Ewan McGregor and James McAvoy, Scottish locations and...

I am about to travel overseas, and not that my budget extends to another laptop, but this OQO model e2 ultra mobile pc would be a great form factor with Vista! I would love, battery depending, to have this XO-2 laptop (around 2010)  however:

Click on the image to take you to the site: Pity I can't get it to pickup bird's eye view of Sydney....

I have been updating soem Silverlight 1.0 demo's to Silverlight 2 and came across this regular error. Its caused by a duplication of namespaces (e.g. UserControl redefines the namespace for its Canvas) Fix is therefore pretty easy: 1) You need to search...

I have been preparing for a TechPoint presentation on Silverlight with some nice graphics . I am trying to retrieve some data from an Rss feed and present in a Silverlight User Control. So I started with the Silverlight Quickstart for Syndication But...

Looks like some great events arranged by our DPE team. "The Aspiring Architect Series 2008 builds on last year’s content and covers a number of topics that are important for architects to understand. Please make sure that you have gone through...

I recently went along to the rugby with one of our partners Unique World and some softies. It was a bitterly cold night and game was a walkover, but the start was fairly unique. The mascot got delivered to the stadium by army helicopter.

Starting to get a bit excited about this event after reading this article ,  yet I wont be able to attend :(. Good news is that I will be able to get all the content! Who Should Attend (or… The PDC is for YOU) The PDC is designed for leading...

Microsoft has released a new global environment site . See Rob Bernard talk about it all here Here are very interesting quotes · 'Smarter technology use could reduce global emissions by 15 per cent and save global industry EUR 500 billion in annual...

I want a Surface device, and not suprisingly I want the SDK. See how easy it will be to develop for XNA and WPF below,  you may want one too: Firefly is an example example of the SDK in use. From what I've heard Surface supports 52 simultaneous multi...