February 2006 - Posts

DLINQ Travels!
28 February 06 11:21 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

I’m working on the next release of http://www.devgarten.com ( https://www.devgarten.com is now available for the security conscious ;)) and I’m adding the News and Events section. The underlying App Arch to this is SQL Server 2005 as the data source, Read More...

Deal or No Deal...you're about to be Davie'fied!
28 February 06 09:45 AM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

Yay!! I just got the call that Yil and I made it onto Deal or No Deal ! This is quite fantastic given that I watched Deal or No Deal for some months without even knowing what the game was about! Will make sure I get some pics with Andrew O’Keefe; Read More...

Hammer Time!
27 February 06 08:18 AM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Courtesy of my mate Chondros; if you haven’t already, check out the man’s blog: http://mchammer.blogspot.com/ No matter what people say about MC Hammer, he was (and from some of his posts) and still is a legend! Who can forget the pants, the Read More...

Shiny LCD...noice!!
24 February 06 12:32 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

My sugar daddy from Shuttle , Allen Lee sent me a 17” Flat Panel to keep my SD31P company, and OH MY GHOULIES, it rocks! So let me give you’ll the LD: 17” active-panel TFT Dual-input 8ms response SXGA 1280x1024 But what’s coolest Read More...

And woop, there it is! ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Toolkit!
23 February 06 06:04 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Hot on the heels of my request for RSS assistance, Scott G shot me the light via his blog! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/22/438738.aspx What freaks me out is, I posted my request this arvo, turned off my notebook and headed home. Scott's Read More...

Imperative RSS and .NET!
23 February 06 04:26 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

I’m building the next release of Dev’garten and I want to include a section on the upcoming lunch-time events being run at the CITC, and I’m going to make sure it’s RSS enabled. But I’m also using LINQ , so my app arch is Read More...

You gotta be joking me! Who picked this Xbox game name!?
20 February 06 11:01 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

LOL, I can’t believe this is the name of an XBox game! http://games.teamxbox.com/xbox/678/Grabbed-by-the-Ghoulies/ I don’t even want to think about how the game plays, or if there is an associated “custom” controller that gives Read More...

Hosting Team Foundation Server...Lessons Learned, So Far!
18 February 06 01:12 PM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

Friday I was able to get Team Foundation Server running in the Dev’garten infrastructure, which is hosted in WDG ’s Melbourne datacenter. Now, everything was fine when all I was doing was connecting to the URI, but as soon as I started to Read More...

It's alive! Team Foundation Server in the cloud!
17 February 06 01:33 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

If you fire-up your Visual Studio 2005 IDE, open up the Team Explorer tool window, and connect to: http://tfs.devgarten.com , Port 80, you will be asked for a logon! I know it’s simple, but it’s the start of something beautiful, a fully hosted, Read More...

Code Camp Oz 2006...It's going to be BIG!
14 February 06 02:25 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

Hey, that tagline sounds familiar..anyway, Code Camp Oz 2006 is looking huge at the moment, with the agenda now up, and glistening with developer might! But what caught my eye was what will no doubt become the highlight of the weekend, the jewel in the Read More...

Melbourne VSTS User Group Meeting!
14 February 06 01:53 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Joey reminded me that the next VSTS User Group meeting is being held this Thursday, 16th of Feb @ the CITC. Karl Kopp will be presenting on his latest adventures with TFS including some info on what he and I have been doing on the Dev’garten side. Read More...

ASP.NET Radiation Training...Get Exposed!
14 February 06 01:40 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

I’m off next month to Perth for my regular visit, and last time I was there, I had some really good conversations with some of the local dudes around training and skilling up. We got onto the topic of different forms of training, and what methods Read More...

Lost in ISA Server 2004 Translations!
13 February 06 05:14 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

With Dev’garten, I have the actual ASP.NET 2.0 site hosted on a virtual server instance running IIS, and the actual web site is located under a virtual directory. So on the actual server, any internal references pan out to be: http://localhost/devgarten/default.aspx Read More...

Visual Studio Guy...I'm your father!
10 February 06 11:57 AM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

I was cruising around Franky’s blog, looking for trouble, when that’s exactly what I found, but not for me! Check this out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/ It’s Source Fource, and I don’t really care what kind of game/promo/learning Read More...

Dev'Garten, Bensley and the CITC Gremlins!
09 February 06 05:13 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Today Tim and I had our session at the CITC on workflow. I’ve been doing presentation at the CITC for a while now, and I can’t remember the last time a demo actually worked. Well, today Tim discovered how wicked the demo gods can be, and didn’t Read More...

Hallelujah! Dev'Garten is home and hosed!
08 February 06 05:39 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

For those who have been following my little Dev’Garten project, part of the vision was to have a hosted ASP.NET 2.0 sand box for people to use to get a feel for ASP.NET 2.0 in the cloud. This hosting infrastructure is also where the Team Foundation Read More...

Only in Japan!
08 February 06 02:02 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Ha ha, my mate Nevhan pointed me to this site for Amadana earphones: http://en.amadana.com/product/pe117/pe117.html They look pretty sweet, but scroll down to the bottom of the page to ensure you don’t use them for unintended purposes! Classic! Read More...

Tim and I are at it again! Windows Workflow @ the CITC!
08 February 06 10:32 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Tim and I are back banging the Windows Workflow drum, but this time, we’ve tweaked the deck. We are going to be discussing the technical impact of Windows Workflow Foundation, how to position it in the application architecture stack, and demo some Read More...

Comments are back!
06 February 06 12:59 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

So after my post issuing a fatwa against comment spammers, I received a couple of emails from the guys at Telligent , the makers of Community Server ( http://blogs.msdn.com runs on CS). As it turns out, at the height of my comment spam frustration (which Read More...

Women and Depression Conference!
06 February 06 12:36 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

My fiance Yil is speaking at the Women and Depression Conference in Sydney from the 6th to the 9th of April on: “A roadmap for dealing with depression while managing a career within corporate Australia.” Through Yil’s experiences working Read More...

Blog DNS and Comment Spam!
06 February 06 10:45 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Recently http://blogs.msdn.com was upgraded to a new version of Community Server, and for some reason, the comment spam went through the roof. I hate comment spam, and my first reaction was to look for some way to thwart the spammers. I poked around the Read More...

The Colonel, The BlogFather and Canolis!
01 February 06 01:46 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

OK, this is one of my “has no technical value whatsoever” posts. Firstly, I was visiting a local KFC the other day and spotted this poster on the wall (check out the inset pic). The sheer variety of posters depicting the goodwill and benevolence Read More...

Nigel pedals a VSTS Team Suite upgrade!
01 February 06 10:47 AM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

Nigel has been on holidays for the past week and arrived today to find two boxes sitting on his desk. Nigel sits right next to me; so while his discovery may have been shiny and new to him, for me, it’s been a festering pustule of mystery for far Read More...