July 2006 - Posts

Identity vs. Feature Value!
31 July 06 01:02 PM | davidlem | 4 Comments   

Something has been stewing in me for a while, and as my blog is my instrument of therapy, I feel the need to bleed. I’ve realised lately that I’m happy to start selecting products based on how closely they align with my identity versus features. Read More...

It's beginning to look a lot like TechEd...!
27 July 06 10:24 PM | davidlem | 4 Comments   

Were into the last stretch for TechEd, and things are getting exciting. Today I made three critical manoeuvres towards my TechEd home straight. Numero A: My Out of the Office note, a TechEd Haiku: Numero 2: The white board after Kurt and I finished brainstorming Read More...

What's Mudhounding?
26 July 06 03:04 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Geoffa has been doing it on TTB , at some point we all do it, but essentially the rules of Mudhounding are simple and easy to follow (not a complete list, just my $0.02 worth): Make sure you don’t give up the chop. It’s Mudhounding, not reporting. Read More...

Take a leather shield to your next meeting!
26 July 06 02:47 PM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

I came across this while reading through one of my text books today and thought, “I miss the good ole’ days”. Before “civilised rule”, if you had a grievance with someone, you had the right under common law to a Trial by Read More...

Internal Technical Communities! I[Tee][Cees]!
25 July 06 06:13 PM | davidlem | 7 Comments   

Do you code? Do you tinker? Do you work with other like minded geeks? Do you want to get involved with Technical Communities, but aren’t into User Groups? Do you want to look like this !? Well, I think I can help (well, except with the last point). Read More...

Frank does his best "Nortie"!
20 July 06 04:41 PM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

Check out Frank’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/archive/2006/07/20/672281.aspx He’s doing a “Norty”!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton Read More...

Oh Stewie...you'll be the death of me!
20 July 06 02:26 PM | davidlem | 4 Comments   

From Tim , an absolute asset to anyones meeting arsenal: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/stewie-familyguy.html My personal favourite: “Oh blast you and your estregenical treachery!” Read More...

Team Foundation Server and Impact Modelling!
19 July 06 06:37 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

I had an idea last night while I was trying to convince my active brain that Big Brother was actually a new episode of Family Guy. It had to do with software change models and simulations, and it all kinda wrapped up as a set of TFS tools…wouldn’t Read More...

What's your "dream" business card?
19 July 06 05:52 PM | davidlem | 5 Comments   

Nige (tardy blogger he is, claims to not have “enough” time…) and I were having a larf around how we would introduce ourselves at a party where no one knew who you really were. You know those functions (mainly work related), where everyone Read More...

Meego, Yougo!
19 July 06 04:16 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

And the Meego fun don’t stop, not only was Timmah just schooling me on the emoticon integration of my Meego with Live Messenger , I also got creative with some of the team’s Meegos using Windows Movie Maker (which by the way is a very addictive and fun Read More...

Team Foundation Server...it's more platform than product!
18 July 06 01:39 PM | davidlem | 7 Comments   

So ( there’s that word again! ) most of us are pretty convinced that Team Foundation Server is a pretty solid SDLC product, but I thought I would list some of the elements that appeals to non-devs. Integration: To me, integration has the ability Read More...

OMG! Bill you're like animal!
18 July 06 11:55 AM | davidlem | 19 Comments   

G$ sent me this article about the DoS attack on the IT Screen Goddess calendar website, and I couldn’t help but look through the feedback , which had some really good points. One of them linked to a post on Monkey Methods (the post takes a while Read More...

Enough of So!!!
17 July 06 06:00 PM | davidlem | 12 Comments   

OK, I can’t take it anymore, if someone starts their next sentence to me with, “So…”, I’m going to spontaneously combust! Who’s with me? Who has noticed the latest language fad of starting a response to someone's question Read More...

Get some Torque, on your fork!
17 July 06 03:04 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

I caught up with Martin and Phil from ECU on Friday, and they gave me a quick demo of their new game built using the Torque Game Engine from GarageGames . This is very cool stuff, and what’s impressive is the engine and script support for developing Read More...

Hi Breeze, the is the fish...!
17 July 06 01:18 PM | davidlem | 8 Comments   

Yil found this on ThatVideoSite on the weekend, and I just had to post it… Reason why this is sooo funny is that if you’ve ever dealt with any overseas call centre (or just dealt with anyone over a poor comms line) you’ll know that Read More...

More MeeGo! I can't stop myself!
17 July 06 12:55 PM | davidlem | 4 Comments   

What can I say, it’s much fun. So, in response to Franky’s MeeGo , I have created my own Frank’eego. This in addition to Yil’s MeeGo, and my yet to be determined, Weird’go (could me MJ , could be Emo Dave?) There’s Read More...

My Ears Are Burning! As Are My Pants!
13 July 06 05:14 PM | davidlem | 4 Comments   

Geoffa emailed me to let me know that I’m live on TechTalkBlogs ! http://techtalkblogs.com/blog/archive/2006/07/13/283.aspx Yeeha! Also, I saw on Berno’s blog about the Tech.Ed 2006 Meego’lator ! Unreal! Where’s you’re Meego!? Read More...

Sisters Are Doing IT for Themselves!
11 July 06 07:56 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Following on from my post about the IT Screen Goddesses Calendar (thanks everyone for the PASSIONATE feedback), I received some great links from Bec that I thought I should post: WIT: Women in Technology, Queensland FITT: Females in Information Technology Read More...

Dev'Garten Phase 2!
11 July 06 05:45 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

Have you ever seen that latest piece of software or dev tool and thought, “I would love to run that up and play with it, but alas, I have no more beans for hardware.” Or, have you had that problem you needed to solve in the lab, but alas, Read More...

Arigato Mr. Roboto!
10 July 06 12:06 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Check this out! Microsoft Robotics Studio ! Great thing is, the runtime is written for CLR 2.0! Some other worthwhile links: The Robotics Team’s Blog The Robotics Runtime Getting Started Guide RoboticsConnection – .NET Serializer Robot Controller Read More...

Letter to the Internet...Can you build me something?
04 July 06 06:39 PM | davidlem | 9 Comments   

Dear Internet, I have an idea for an app, and I’m hoping you can build it for me? Essentially, I’d like something that could crawl through all the comments on my blog (I’m sure Community Server must have some capability in the API to Read More...

Web Dev and Royalty-Free Images!
04 July 06 02:20 PM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

Whenever I’m building a website for a demo or proof of concept, I like to use nice images, but certainly don’t have the budget to get custom photography or graphic work done. So my saviour is always royalty-free images. I’ve always used Read More...

Bank Fraud Quality Slipping! What would Idris Yahaya Esq. say!?
04 July 06 01:29 PM | davidlem | 5 Comments   

Now, I’m a stickler for quality, I expect it from everyone and everything, so it really disappointed me when I received this today: I mean, c’mon people! You don’t even bother masking the dodgy URLs anymore! I used to really enjoy receiving Read More...

Why Team Foundation Server should have been SaaS'ier!
04 July 06 10:57 AM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

I read the first of a part series on SaaS this morning, called Architecture Strategies for Catching the Long Tail , and something occurred to me. Back in November, 2004 , I got stuck into Team Foundation Server (it was the November CTP). As I was using Read More...

My idea for my mini-ITX board!
03 July 06 04:44 PM | davidlem | 5 Comments   

Don Kerr (our Embedded guru) sent me a mini-ITX board today, and I have an idea for it. I’m going to put it in my car, and attach it to a GPS reader, my web cam and an external microphone mounted in my car (I might try and get it working with my Read More...

Royal Elastics Make Nice Shoes!
03 July 06 04:24 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

I went on a little shopping spree on the weekend, and got myself some new Royal Elastics . My old ones have been real troopers, but since I wear them when riding, they are really going downhill fast. Now, I remember a few months ago, Franky was thinking Read More...

Traditional Media's Fine Whine about Blogging!
03 July 06 02:58 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Daz has a great post on the media’s response to blogging. In it, he refers to an article by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd , titled “ Bloggers, they’re just trying to put the “me” in media ”. Taking an extrospective Read More...

Could It Be? Big Brother Axed?
03 July 06 01:03 AM | davidlem | 9 Comments   

Well, maybe just in my dreams, but a recent poll on The Age’s website seems to be pointing in the right direction! Please go away Big Brother, I know of a ton of great TV to replace you: CHiPs ‘99 – Ponch has returned to the police force, Read More...

I Second That Emotion!
01 July 06 11:39 PM | davidlem | 3 Comments   

Nige has a post up on his new reality TV show idea. Now, many know my stance on such things, but I have to say, his idea not only has merit, but by gosh, it’s just down right sensible. Now, I have started my small list of people to nominate Nige: Read More...