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Stanley Wins DARPA Grand Challenge 2005

Martin Woodward
Date : 10 Oct, 2005
Categories :web

This 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.

Google Reader

Martin Woodward
Date : 09 Oct, 2005
Categories :technology books gadgets web

As 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.

Snippy the .NET Kangaroo

Martin Woodward
Date : 04 Oct, 2005
Categories :technology dotnet web programming podcast personal

A 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.

VSTSPlugins Website Launched

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 Oct, 2005
Categories :tfs dotnet web programming personal

Over the weekend, I put up a website for my VSTSPlugins project - a home for open source VSTS Plugins. So far I've put up a CruiseControl.NET source control plugin.

Another Successful VSTS Beta 3 Install

Martin Woodward
Date : 29 Sep, 2005
Categories :tfs maker web

I know I probably shouldn't be this excited, but I've just installed VSTS B3 into a single VPC image, and it worked first time!! Still a couple of funnies, reports don't seem to be working doesn't look fatal, probably a configuration setting missing somewhere but apart from that everything is good.

Alan Irwin is blogging

Martin Woodward
Date : 23 Sep, 2005
Categories :web

Alan Irwin has started blogging. The only person I know with valid passports from 3 countries.

Meebo Rules

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 Sep, 2005
Categories :technology web

Occassionally, I come across something that is soo good I think twice about recommending it to people because I don't want the site to get so busy that it becomes un-useable. But this thing is just too good to be quiet about. Go check out meebo. Check it out right now, and I mean right now - you won't regret it.

Skype Call Forwarding

Martin Woodward
Date : 04 Sep, 2005
Categories :technology dotnet gadgets maker web

Skypehave done it again. Using the latest windows beta version (1.4.0.47) you now have access to Call Forwarding features. If you are offline or do not answer a skype call then you can configure Skype to automatically forward the call to your landline or cell phone (using your Skypeout credit to pay the the forwarded...

Sourcesafe ss.ini Not Found

Martin Woodward
Date : 01 Sep, 2005
Categories :technology

Some days I forget how much I hate SourceSafe. If for some reason you start being unable to log into your SourceSafe database and get the error "ss.ini" not found this is because the SourceSafe client has renamed the file to a .tmp file while it was doing something to it and for some reason not finished.

nAnt Tip

Martin Woodward
Date : 25 Aug, 2005
Categories :dotnet maker web programming

I've been struggling with a known issue with nDoc where it tries to generate filenames that are bigger than 256 characters. So instead of generating my documentation within the build folder, which is under the project folder - I'm going to have to create a temp directory at the root of my current drive with a really...

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