I colleague of mine, Mike Cooper, just pointed me towards the "Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming". Hopefully not because he thinks I need to heed the advice - but it is always good to think about your own behaviour when revewing and pairing.
Continue ReadingI've been a keen user of Konfabulator for a while now. I even paid for a couple of licenses in the pre-Yahoo days. It's really easy to hack up your own widgets, and I have a strange self-distructive streak that means I enjoy writing in javascript every now and then.
Continue ReadingTaking me a little by suprise, the official RTM version of the .NET Framework 2.0 is now available. The really good news is that the official version is v2.0.50727 which is exactly the same version of the framework that shipped with Beta 3 of Visual Studio Team System.
Continue ReadingThis week Siemens have demonstrated a cheap paper thin display using OLED technology. Sounds very promising, they are talking about displays being manufactured using print style processes making displays cheap enough to appear in magazines. See The Guardian or Physorg for more information.
Continue ReadingWell, looks like I made a good prediction. According to the New Scientist, MSN and Yahoo are linking their IM products together and opening up their VOIP solutions to SIP. What's that saying about thy enemy's ememy?
Continue ReadingJust posted a reply to the VSTS Forums, but this is such a common question that I thought I'd post the response here in a place that Google is more likely to stumble across it. The problem is when somebody leaves a file checked out from Team Foundation Source Control (formally known as Hatterras).
Continue ReadingFinally got round to packaging up and releasing a CC.NET plugin for VSTS compiled against VSTS Beta 3. Great thanks to Troy Gould who did all the changes to the source files from the Beta 2 version. Now all I need to post some instuctions to give people a clue as to how to install it...
Continue ReadingThis years DARPA Grand Challenge has seen a winner. Stanley, the modified VW Toureg from Stanford University, completed the 131 mile off-road course with a 19 mph average speed. Stanford University News has an excellent article, I'm sure there are more articles to follow.
Continue ReadingAs you've probably discovered by now, Google has launched Google Reader - a web based RSS reader with all the fancy AJAX lovliness you'd expect. So far, I'm a little dissapointed.
Continue ReadingA new version of Snippy is out. For those of you not familiar - you'll be sorry to hear that Snippy is not a replacement to Clippy in Office 12, nor is it a helpful marsupial that will rescue Timmy from down the well. Snippy is a handy little tool to help you edit code snippets in VS 2005.
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