Monthly Archives: October, 2007
Semiologic site down again!
I just started on the planning needed to upgrade my site to the latest version of WordPress (2.3.1) and wanted to be sure that the Semiologic theme that I use will be supported. Strangely, there’s nothing on the WordPress site one way or the other (which is surprising for such a popular theme) so I [...]
Microsoft Does It Again!
We all love to hate Microsoft but I think it does us good sometimes to find new reasons why! I wanted to build a fairly simple ActiveX control recently and decided to brush up my VC++ skills (since I’ve been using almost exclusively C#.Net for the past 2 years). So I dutifully fired up Visual [...]
What’s your Motivation?
I’ve had several emails from my subscribers asking me what my motivation is for creating this blog. Well, I can finally reveal ( ) that I’m writing this to encourage me to to keep learning – and this is a powerful motivator! I’ve done a lot of personal development in the past, and one of the [...]
Reparsing Folders in XP
Since I do a lot of development on my PC, I spend a lot of time working with the “My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects” folder. However, I’ve been finding it inconvenient that I need to constantly browse down to it from within Windows Explorer so I set about trying to find a way to add a [...]
Platform Independence in Practice
Everyone has an opinion regarding Microsoft – good or bad. However, I hadn’t realised just how far some people will go to actively block any non-Microsoft web browsers. Take a look at http://toastytech.com/good/badsitelist.html to see a worryingly long list of sites inaccessible to any browsers other than Internet Explorer. Big Brother is watching!
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