As Microsoft TechEd 2011 is fast approaching & Delic8genius has made a call-out to the Australian community “ What is your Geek Origin Story ” So, it’s time for me to document My Geek Origin Story My first geek obsession...

I have multiple sites on the same IIS 7.5 server. Using the handy Bindings... feature, I am able to redirect incoming :80 HTTP queries to the appropriate server with ease. On more than one site I have added FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to ease publishing...

One of the mechanisms of improving SEO on Wordpress driven sites is to switch to a more semantic URL scheme. On an IIS7 installation, after selecting one of these permalink options, Wordpress then suggests you edit and/or create a web.config entry...

PHP remains one of the most popular web development languages. Combining dynamic, edit/save/refresh development with extensibility - PHP is used by Wordpress , Drupal , Joomla and a myriad of other web content management systems. Intensive frameworks...

If you like PHP, and do not have time to setup the PHPOnWindowsTrainingKit - this forthcoming series of videos might be your thing! Microsoft School of PHP Preview

GENERALMELCHETT , my main PC ‘ride’ was built in late 2007. The General is named in homage to the great character played by Stephen Fry in Blackadder . A few upgrades of video cards, one processor update to the Q9300 and some hard disk shenanigans resulted...

A great little case study on the use of IronRuby to create nRake. Thanks to Senior .NET Consultant, James Crisp from ThoughtWorks for telling us the story!

In the time given at Kiwi Pycon 2010 , I managed to traverse a wide range of topics related to Microsoft and Python (by IronPython and CPython ) MACROPOINT , the 2447th presentation tool written in Python using HTML5, SVG and Python in the browser IronPython...

In April 2009, Tomáš Matoušek created a nifty IronRuby script that demonstrated the sharing of ScriptScopes in the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). The examples on Tomáš’ blog post still work. The script is like the movie Inception, with languages within...

Winning pitch at Sydney Amped. http://openconferenceprotocol.org/ won the Amped Sydney 2010 one day hack-a-thon. The video above is the team’s presentation; an interview in episode 49 of the Frankly Speaking podcast is also worth a listen . Tatham Oddie...

One of the consistent pieces of feedback from our Australian TechEd attendees is “the schedule builder is difficult to navigate” Solution 1: Pivot Rob Farley, of Lobster Pot Solutions in Adelaide used Live Labs Silverlight Pivot to create a Session Browser...

New podcast off the rank is the Iron Languages podcast . Thanks to Will Green and Mike Hall. Go listen.

Want to Learn More? I highly recommend Michael Foord's book, IronPython in Action . I have blogged about MahTweets a couple of times: The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over. and MahTweets goes 2.7 . MahTweets is a MS-PL open source social...

As a fan of SVG since 2000, it is great to seeing SVG make it big again in HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 . For my Pycon-Australia keynote on the weekend, I decided to mashup Python & SVG. You know, it is one of those thing you think of in the shower...

Another great night at the Sydney PHP User’s group. It was an interesting update of the trajectory Microsoft & PHP has plotted since my last presentation in September 2008 (with Jorke Odolphi) As promised, URLs and references. Thanks to Mark Brown...

Not only has New Orleans won the Super Bowl, it is hosting North America TechEd 2010 . It seems the TechEd marketing team had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a post-boy for their email signature campaign . That is, they found an obscure Australian...

Using the open source jTDS JDBC Driver , you can connect to SQL Azure.   Driver class name: net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver Database URL: jdbc:jtds:sqlserver:// <server>. database.windows.net:1433/ <databasename> ;ssl=require Username...

The MahTweets team have released version 2.7 of the open source social media client. Based on WPF, MEF and other developer goodness: with source code available if you want to see how to create a desktop application. Many useability enhancements based...

Just randomly found this feature. I am sure its documented in some list somewhere. To move a maximised window from one monitor to another (if your Windows 7 PC has more than one monitor connected) windows-key shift left/right arrow This also works...

Long, long time now posts. Twitter captures my immediate thoughts; and time is captured by other pursuits. The Netbooks at Australian TechEd pioneered the way for the PDC 2009 Acer handout. And quite frankly drained me completely. After being hyper-immersed...

Twitter; Facebook and friends is the place where I spend most of my day. For work and play. Separating work and play is difficult in single-column twitter clients. Enter mutliple columns, filtering as base requirements for my perfect twitter client. Stuck...

Hyper-V Instrumentation via Linux driver, source code contribution (GPLv2) Microsoft Live@EDU integration for Moodle via a plug in, PHP source code contribution (GPLv2) Gestalt. <script language=”ruby | python”> client-side scripting (MsPL)

As TechEd 2009 approaches, there are many people scurrying around behind the scenes ensuring the Windows 7/Mini-notebooks experience succeeds. Andrew Dugdell is tracking the process from the outside; and Jorke has a new blog with indepth details from...

Two unintended consequences of Microsoft open sourcing: 1. Google Chrome (on Windows) uses the Windows Template Library (WTL) published under the Ms-PL 2. Mono outpaces Java for Linux desktop application adoption . An interesting quotation from the article...

SOme quick notes on Microsoft and PHP things that are in motion. Things is such a great Anglo-Saxon word. July CTP of PHP SDK for Windows Azure . If you are more visual, Rob Bagby has an excellent post and more excellent screencast overview: Also, pop...