November 2007
Mucking about with Google Group Chat
It's time to stop playing politics with vulnerable... →
iHartAngie.net Begins →
G’day folks,
We’re moving house. This site is moving to www.iHartAngie.net. The www.angie-hart.com domain name will eventually be appropriated by ABC Records, Angie’s record label, for their own promotional uses.
Please update your bookmarks, and start using the new site in favor of this one. All news and content updates will be posted at our new location.
For further details, please visit the...
time to see them!
Never mind Heffernan, it’s a good thing Gillard doesn’t have kids, cause as Dep. PM, Education and employment minister, she’d never have
@NickHodge I thought it was kind of odd that there’s a Minister for climate change which is seperate to the environment minister
@NickHodge @duncanriley Funnier because that was Howard’s real middle name
State Of SubSonic, November 2007 →
I’ve been reading through the forums, getting up to speed on a lot of issues and what’s plainly evident is that I’ve been busy for far too long. The good news is that I’m getting “in the swing” here and have begun my work on SubSonic in earnest, once again. So, to make this very plain:
SubSonic is NOT dead, not mired in anything, not even stalled. We’ve been sidetracked by flippin...
@duncanriley Snitter’s still working ok
Gotta love the Chaser
Wiring the house for a Home Network - Part 4 -... →
When designing the new house and home office I really wanted gigabit Ethernet through the house. I run a lot of VMs, music, HD Video, and generally don’t like to wait when moving things from here to there. All my systems have gigabit cards now, including my laptops and the Macs, so it seemed a reasonable thing to do. This afternoon I was copying Visual Studio 2008 Installation Media...
“In an unprecedented joint venture, UK TV giants BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4...”
– TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » BBC, ITV, Channel 4 to launch joint on-demand web TV
Always looking for the Python side of theatre →
PowerShell Plus Beta Available →
I just got mail from Tobias Weltner letting me know that they are making PowerShell Plus free for non-commercial use. If you have not checked this tool out - you should. PowerShell Plus is like what you’d get if the Console spent a year with a 24x7 IV drip of steriods. It is in beta now but is it appears to be in reasonable shape. Check out details HERE. Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows...
Towards more renewable energy →
Posted by Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products Clean and affordable energy is a growing need for our company, and we’re excited about the opportunity to help create competitive green alternatives. Our new initiative isn’t just about Google’s energy needs; we’re seeking to accelerate the pace at which clean energy technologies are developing, so they can rival the economics of...
New Terrain Layer in Google Maps →
There’s a new tab in Google Maps: “terrain”. The view combines street maps with visual information about terrains. Elevation data is not limited to geographic features like mountains, but it’s also displayed for buildings. The satellite view adds data from the hybrid view (street names, city names, roads), but you have the option to hide it. { Thanks, Rodney. }
The Big Ball of Mud and Other Architectural... →
Mistakes are inevitable on any software project. But mistakes, if handled appropriately, are OK. Mistakes can be intercepted, adjusted, and ultimately addressed. The root of deep, fatal software project problems is not knowing when you’re making a mistake. These types of mistakes tend to fester into massive, systemic project failure. That’s why I’m fond of citing...
Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008... →
This afternoon we released an updated version of the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha that works with the final release of Visual Studio 2008. You can download it for free here. The tools alpha refresh released today has the same feature-set as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 (it has simply been updated to work with the final VS 2008...
Good Advice for Bloggers from Cory Doctorow of... →
Cory Doctorow says that the headline and first sentence of a blog post should explain all things that a reader would need to know in order to skip the article.
Readers will forgive you for writing things that do not interest them if you make it easy for them to skip stuff they don’t care about.
Cory’s second advice for bloggers is not to split long articles into multiple pages.
blogging: See, Google is evil http://tinyurl.com/2ypyy7
“The State Government has given the green light to using genetically modified...”
– Green light for GM crops
Answers to a few VS 2008 Trial Edition, TFS 2008,... →
Below are some answers to a couple of questions about the recent VS 2008 release that I’ve seen the last few days: When will the trial edition of VS 2008 Professional be available for download? We shipped a free trial edition of VS 2008 Team Suite on the web last week. You can download it here. We are hoping to publish the free trial edition of VS 2008 Professional on the web later this...
News: Star Trek MMO →
As if Trekky’s weren’t already screwed for social lives, it looks like the new MMO for the Star Trek universe is aimed at being ‘more casual MMO’. Whilst ‘MMO’ and ‘casual’ are oxymorons, developer…
Video: anatomy of a search snippet →
Several weeks ago I flew up to Google’s Kirkland office to visit with the wonderful webmaster tools team. While I was visiting, someone said “Hey, why don’t you grab a video camera, find an empty office, and record as many videos as you can in an hour?” That sounded good to me, and the first result of that is an eight-minute or so video about Google’s search snippets:
I’d like to say a special...
I Don't Want To Consume Media That I Can't... →
That’s the bottom line. When I come into contact with media, I want to do something with it. Tag it, post it, reply to it, comment on it, favorite it, share it, gift it, quote it, whatever.
And that’s one of Scoble’s big beefs with the Kindle.
When are people going to understand that digital media, be it a book, a song, a film, an article, or whatever else, is not passive...
SubSonic: Our Forums Suck. HALP! →
I was hoping our forums project would take off and we could “dog food” a neat new forums project based on SubSonic. That didn’t happen, and I’m paying the price.
I try to answer 20-50 posts a day on our forums, and with the new job, Eric getting married, and others out for the holidays, our forums are suffering a bit. We’ve recently had a group of developers come in to help out, but I’m afraid it...
Futurama - Bender's Big Score: DVD →
Version Control and “the 80%” →
How People Really Use RSS – Part One →
In a couple of recent blog posts, we asked users how they employ RSS in their everyday lives. We got some great responses and good suggestions, and we thank everyone who took the time to tell us their stories. We certainly learned something from respondents, and now it’s time to share some of the answers and suggestions we received. Melissa Guzzetta writes that she didn’t really understand what...
Freelance Freedom #27 →
Keep your code structure clean →
As an architect or a lead developer
responsible for the structure of a code base, you spend time creating a clean
structure for your code. The challenge is to make sure that the intentions you had when creating the structure won’t be violated in the future, what is often named design
erosion or architecture erosion.
Let’s take a real-world application
such as Octopus Micro Finance...
WTF: Adobe Reader 8 →
I have no idea how it got there in the first place. Yes, I know about Foxit Reader. For the record, I declined and uninstalled it (which required a reboot, argh). The plugin installer license-agreement thingie was quite apoplectic about it, too. Declining, I mean. Have you ever had the feeling that you’re suddenly venturing into a code path that has only ever been tested by disgruntled...
UK Could Ban Pirates from Using the Web →
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry wants the UK—and probably everyone else on the planet—to follow French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s example and ban everyone who uses the intertubes to share copyrighted files.
Home Trebuchet Kit, a Few Feet Short of Perfection →
When we first spotted this Stirling Warwolf Trebuchet kit, we thought our dreams had come true. At last we could defeat our neighbours, if not in a landscaping-off, at least in an old fashioned, purely American arms race. But then we saw the all-too-reasonable price of $US189. And we knew this trebuchet was only moderately awesome and probably wouldn’t help us defeat the neighbourhood any...
Foundations of Programming - Part 1 - Introduction →
Preamble A few years ago I was fortunate enough to turn a corner in my programming career. The opportunity for solid mentoring presented itself, and I took full advantage of it. Within the space of a few months, my programming skills grew exponentially and over the last couple years, I’ve continued to refine my art. Doubtless I still have much to learn, and five years from now I’ll...
@duncanriley I’ll second that one
listening to: Rogue Traders – Voodoo Child: http://www.last.fm/music/Rogue+Traders
@jjprojects Bizzare, there’s no history of the marker being moved, that’s actually where google maps think it is
blogging: http error messages on Google Trends http://tinyurl.com/3xjuzv
Is it Tuesday? →
Mysterious Cities of Gold coming to the big screen →
The beloved childhood TV series is due to come to the big screen next year in an all-new 3D Animated Feature. — grum
Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) →
I’ve read two books on it, which explains why I haven’t been on Twitter very much in the past week. But the Kindle really bugs me now. I’m hitting all sorts of little things that the Kindle team simply didn’t think through very well.
Here’s my one-week review of Amazon’s Kindle.
I focus on a few areas:
1. No ability to buy paper goods from Amazon through Kindle.
2. Usability sucks. They...
Service Packs for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 →
Service Packs for the 2.0 and 3.0 .net framework for everyone not installing 3.5 yet.
@duncanriley http://snurl.com/1u27a Duncan, how does TechCrunch editorial work if Arrington didn’t know this was going up?