basketweaving for the mind
Microsoft, Open source, Web and other random stuff from one of Microsoft's Professonal Geeks
My Geek Origin Story (for Microsoft Australia TechEd 2011)
As Microsoft TechEd 2011 is fast approaching & Delic8genius has made a call-out to the...
Date: 08/16/2011
IIS7.5, FTP Sites, 530-error, bindings
I have multiple sites on the same IIS 7.5 server. Using the handy Bindings... feature, I am able to...
Date: 08/16/2011
Wordpress on IIS7.x : Permalinks, Media /wp-content/ access
One of the mechanisms of improving SEO on Wordpress driven sites is to switch to a more semantic URL...
Date: 08/08/2011
Microsoft School of PHP: Now open for classes!
PHP remains one of the most popular web development languages. Combining dynamic, edit/save/refresh...
Date: 03/28/2011
Preview: Microsoft School of PHP
If you like PHP, and do not have time to setup the PHPOnWindowsTrainingKit - this forthcoming series...
Date: 03/10/2011
Updating to Core i7 2600. Well, that was easy.
GENERALMELCHETT, my main PC ‘ride’ was built in late 2007. The General is named in homage to the...
Date: 01/18/2011
nRake and IronRuby
A great little case study on the use of IronRuby to create nRake. Thanks to Senior .NET Consultant,...
Date: 01/05/2011
Kiwi Pycon 2010 Presentation Notes
In the time given at Kiwi Pycon 2010, I managed to traverse a wide range of topics related to...
Date: 11/20/2010
Updating Tomáš Matoušek’s repl.rb & adding repl.py
In April 2009, Tomáš Matoušek created a nifty IronRuby script that demonstrated the sharing of...
Date: 11/16/2010
OpenConferenceProtocol
Winning pitch at Sydney Amped. https://openconferenceprotocol.org/ won the Amped Sydney 2010 one day...
Date: 10/17/2010
Notes on OData–TechEd Australia feed
One of the consistent pieces of feedback from our Australian TechEd attendees is “the schedule...
Date: 09/08/2010
The Iron Languages Podcast: Go Listen!
New podcast off the rank is the Iron Languages podcast. Thanks to Will Green and Mike Hall. Go...
Date: 07/10/2010
Adding (DLR) Scripting to a Desktop Application
Want to Learn More? I highly recommend Michael Foord's book, IronPython in Action. I have blogged...
Date: 07/08/2010
Having fun with HTML5, Script/Python & SVG
As a fan of SVG since 2000, it is great to seeing SVG make it big again in HTML5 and Internet...
Date: 06/28/2010
Sydney PHP Users Group, June 2010
Another great night at the Sydney PHP User’s group. It was an interesting update of the trajectory...
Date: 06/22/2010
Random Email Poster Child for US TechEd 2010
Not only has New Orleans won the Super Bowl, it is hosting North America TechEd 2010. It seems the...
Date: 02/09/2010
JDBC to SQL Azure
Using the open source jTDS JDBC Driver, you can connect to SQL Azure. Driver class name:...
Date: 01/25/2010
MahTweets goes 2.7
The MahTweets team have released version 2.7 of the open source social media client. Based on WPF,...
Date: 01/14/2010
Windows 7 Multiple-monitor keyboard shortcut
Just randomly found this feature. I am sure its documented in some list somewhere. To move a...
Date: 01/05/2010
Hyper-immersion and Character Weaknesses
Long, long time now posts. Twitter captures my immediate thoughts; and time is captured by other...
Date: 11/22/2009
The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
Twitter; Facebook and friends is the place where I spend most of my day. For work and play....
Date: 09/05/2009
Open Source Goodness Comes in Threes
Hyper-V Instrumentation via Linux driver, source code contribution (GPLv2) Microsoft Live@EDU...
Date: 07/22/2009
Get a Backstage Pass
As TechEd 2009 approaches, there are many people scurrying around behind the scenes ensuring the...
Date: 07/12/2009
Unintended Consequences
Two unintended consequences of Microsoft open sourcing: 1. Google Chrome (on Windows) uses the...
Date: 07/09/2009
PHP: Of Eyes, Ears and Clouds
SOme quick notes on Microsoft and PHP things that are in motion. Things is such a great Anglo-Saxon...
Date: 07/07/2009
Sanity Prevails
The FOSS community has been concerned about the difficulties, pros and cons of including Mono-built...
Date: 07/06/2009
Tweets: Netbooks
ntpro: Where was something kick-ass like this for the first 2500 #TechEd US registrations? Screw the...
Date: 06/30/2009
Community Project No. 1
Andrew Dugdell has started a blog following us HP mini-note/netbook guys on our 10 week journey to...
Date: 06/30/2009
HP Mini-notebooks/Netbooks at TechEd: The coverage so far
Documenting the initial coverage for posterity. Will update as stuff flows Long Zheng “got the...
Date: 06/30/2009
Big Things in Mini Packages
(the image above is not displayed at actual size) Mini Packages Yes!, paid delegates to Australia's...
Date: 06/29/2009
IronPython at SyPy, 3rd April 2009
Photo thanks to James Dumay Thanks to all for questions, and attending on Thursday night. Big ups to...
Date: 04/03/2009
Need to Test Against Varied Versions of Internet Explorer?
Need to test your website against new and old versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer? Microsoft...
Date: 03/04/2009
IIS7.x, Server Farms and Ruby
(Caution: Ruby application names are as prolific, esoteric and funny as Microsoft code names) The...
Date: 02/24/2009
Windows 7, IIS 7.5 and Ruby on Rails
Having spent the weekend working on Ruby on Rails with IIS/SQLServer 2008 Express backend via...
Date: 02/22/2009
John Resig: “The DOM is a Mess”
John Resig, a developer at the Mozilla Foundation, presented at Yahoo! on jQuery. More specifically,...
Date: 02/02/2009
Editing CSS in Internet Explorer 8
A question from a recent workshop given by my colleague in evangelism, Delicategenius (please note:...
Date: 01/27/2009
Pragmatic Internet Explorer 8 (RC1) Testing
Yay! Internet Explorer 8 gets closer to final release. A Release Candidate is what happens after a...
Date: 01/26/2009
Internet Explorer 8, Enterprise and Intranets
A common question from Web developers is: “when in IE6 going to die?” Yesterday, visiting the...
Date: 01/21/2009
Inaugration: Photosynth on the Mac: via Silverlight
No matter your political standing, the election and inauguration of Barak Obama is a moment for all...
Date: 01/21/2009
Microsoft Tag: Mac, PDF to Bitmap
Microsoft Tag renders vector version of the colourful tag. This is not conducive to easy use on the...
Date: 01/19/2009
Microsoft Tags with No Colour
Long Zheng, over at istartedsomething.com has conducted more experiments with the new Microsoft Tag....
Date: 01/09/2009
Printing Microsoft Tags
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new piece of technology in beta: Microsoft Tag. When you start...
Date: 01/08/2009
Therapeutic HTML and CSS
Holidays over. Time to return to work! Crisis! How to get back into the tempo of work? Ease in via...
Date: 01/05/2009
Dynamic Language Runtime 0.9 and IronPython 2.0
Over on codeplex, the smart team behind the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) and IronPython have...
Date: 12/15/2008
PHP on Windows
Do you use PHP on Windows? Love to hear your stories. Comment here or email me at...
Date: 12/14/2008
Open Source Developer Conference, Sydney, 2008
During the 30 minutes of presentation, I demonstrated the following bits and pieces of open source...
Date: 12/14/2008
IronPython + F# + Parallel + Async = A Kittehz Brekfst
more animals As per the image above, cats and threads do no mix. Python and threads may not mix,...
Date: 11/12/2008
F#: Perth .NET User’s Group
Thanks to Mitch Wheat for inviting me to talk, and letting me choose the topic: F#. Also a major...
Date: 11/11/2008
Demos and Links from Edge of the Web, Nov’08 Perth
During the 50 minutes of presentation (including at least 9 ICHC images), I demonstrated the...
Date: 11/10/2008
Microformats Toolkit: Oomph
John Allsopp, Mr Microformats, has posted a new article on visitmix.com: The Quiet Revolution. The...
Date: 10/22/2008