Today I decided to create a family photo album web site. I settled on using nGallery (from www.nGallery.org ). The hoster I am using has a fairly locked down environment so nGallery didn’t work out of the box. Here are the things I had to do to make it...

I just did Brad Abram's latest Whidbey Readiness Quiz and it was great fun. The comments on his blog so far are .NET Framework 2.0 answers, but I used .NET Framework 1.1. I thought Brad was trying to illustrate the difficulty doing this stuff the old...

Borrowed from Tim Sneath a list of .NET Developers in New Zealand who have a blog. Feel free to add a comment to this page to get yourself on the list - it's a short list so far. Chris Auld - Regional .NET User Group Leader Kirk Jackson - Wellington ...

In November (yes in a couple of weeks) we will be running a developer and business event in three cities within NZ, we will be visiting: Wellington – 8 th Nov – Duxton Hotel Christchurch – 16 th Nov – Christchurch Convention Centre Auckland – 17 th Nov...

I've spent the holiday weekend a bit off the beaten track in the Marlborough Sounds (Mahau Sounds in Moetapu Bay to be exact). I've also just published the ASP.NET web site for the Catamaran Yacht we stayed on Panache Cat .

An Australian IT worker (a project manager) John Bernard Denison was sentanced today in Wellington , New Zealand. He had worked at the Ministry of Health in Wellington, New Zealand - where I live - how rude - and apparently had hacked the Ministry of...

I'm running Windows Media Center Edition 2005 at home and is't very cool. Sometimes it's not though. I was just sitting on the couch watching the start of Everybody Loves Raymond. My wife walks in and rewinds it back to the start so I get to watch all...

Well, yes I did get my Visual Studio Team System install working. A two VPC configuration is much easier to deal with - both running Windows Server 2003. Install the first one as a domain controller with a private domain and remember to include DNS when...