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