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Monday, June 15, 2009 6:29 PM

MCT Summit 2009

Apparently some of you are not registered yet. Bill summarized some possible reasons… The top reason for not attending web casts from this side of the planet is, of course, GMT-8 vs. GMT+4. We’re typically at the movies or asleep when the US’ West Coast
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Monday, January 12, 2009 5:43 PM

Seven things you didn't know about me

I blame SoCalDevGal . 1. I have not watched television news for the past six years. My recently acquired TV is not even connected to receive television channels. 2. I am not from Zambia . I was born near Cape Town in South African but travel on a Dutch
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Monday, December 15, 2008 3:47 PM

Securing Source Code

Second time this question came up: How to protect source code from theft by developers during software development. My first reaction is a blunt "you can't" - they wrote it so it is in their heads already. And anyway, if you could give the developer amnesia,
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:30 AM

Afrikaans

Here's an opportunity to spice up Windows Vista: the Windows Vista "Afrikaans TaalOppervlakPak", or in English: Windows Vista "Afrikaans" Language Interface Pack (LIP). LIPs are also available for Xhosa, Zulu and Sesotho . Speaking of Africa, here's a
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Monday, December 08, 2008 4:27 PM

SqlDependency aka Query Notification

From a question the other day I dug up an example I whipped up for a class back in Swindon, England. A BizTalk class of all things. The question: Is there an alternative to polling databases for changes to keep a user interface up to date? Yes: Query
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Attachment(s): CacheDemoWithQueryNotification.zip
Sunday, December 07, 2008 1:01 PM

Delegates & Events

The topic of Delegates and Events came up on Thursday and I made up an example on the spot which I thought rather appropriate and fun besides. We started with "What is a Delegate" by declaring a delegate and invoking a method through it. The Array.FindAll
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Saturday, December 06, 2008 4:47 PM

HDD versus SSD

On my return from Zambia there should be a new laptop waiting for me at work: and I saw the option is available to go for an flash-based disk instead of a mechanical (platter & head) traditional hard disk. I've read a bit about that idea and know
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:17 AM

PDC: Anton's Day 2 & 3

Why no Day 2 update? Because we had a horrific night. At the attendee party at Universal Studios it was Jason and Freddie and all the gore and scare you can handle all night long! But the highlight for me was Bill & Ted's - so late night fun and no
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:13 PM

PDC: Anton's Day 1

I watched the keynote via Silverlight while preparing for the rush of attendees expected at the Hands-on Labs area. Immediately after the keynote followed the first Windows Azure break-out session so most people went there first. But there were several
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:04 PM

Olympics in Lego

I am a big Lego fan - on my recent trip to the US I got myself the Milennium Falcon - but not a fan of athletics, so this makes for quite the conflict in my mind: Welcome to the Olympics where everyone's quick off the blocks
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 4:10 PM

Weather in Lusaka is Fantastic!

Visiting Lusaka is always an exercise in nostalgia. A lot of the brands around here are of South African retailers, banks or similar that expanded into southern African countries like Zambia. First thing to do on arrival then is to go shop for all the
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Monday, June 02, 2008 10:01 PM

An Original Idea

Not in the Nobel Prize sense, but check out this CCTV footage .
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:55 AM

In theory, there's no difference... in practice...

In Abu Dhabi, the Red Bull Air Race put on a magnificent display of physics in practice. Amazing aircraft with master pilots making for both great entertainment and an opportunity for amateur and professional photographers alike; here are my favorites,
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:10 AM

Language Wars Won & Lost & ...

Pooya mentioned some choices in terms of programming languages thanks to the Software+Services approach, and then I ran across the Lang.NET Symposium . Great content to further that discussion, especially when considering a language not for the sake of
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 8:00 AM

Better than Free

Thought provoking article on Edge.org on what can still be charged for / has value to people in a world where ideas can be copied so easily.
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