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I listened (finally) to last week's Hanselminutes featuring SecretGeek 's Leon Bambrick. Leon talked about the steps involved in becoming a "Micro-ISV" - that is, an independent software vendor on a small scale (with one or two commercial products). He's following up his appearance on the show with a...
Damn! Euan just pointed out that our "grabimg" utility here on Mad Props no longer works. We coded up a small ASP.NET utility a few years ago which, given a single parameter, would perform an image search on Google and return a random thumbnail from the results. It made decorating our blog...
This post is inspired by my recent attempts to educate mum and dad in the use of the various tools with which we access the Internet. My folks are very non-technical. Dad knows how to launch iTunes (and I managed to teach him how to rip a CD, which was a monumental achievement), and mum knows how to...
My workmate Vijay is playing with WCF with a small project, and was asking me how to display a "nested" property of his business object in a DataGridView. I'll walk through an example here, changing the class names to protect the innocent. Let's say you have a collection of characters and the...
Over the past few days I've been playing with the latest beta of Windows Live Mail Desktop . WLMd is essentially the successor to Outlook Express, in that it's a small email and usenet client. In addition to mail and news, however, WLMd also handles your RSS feeds, and presents them to you in a "mail...
One of the most interesting, and most welcome, features of the recently-announced Windows Home Server is that it no longer uses drive letters. As you add storage (in the form of USB, ATA or SATA drives) they are simply added to a common pool of storage used by the OS. Drive letters are an artifact of...
The first meeting for 2007 of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group has just wrapped up, and as you may recall this month's meeting was all about Comicster . I must admit that I was packing death before the meeting - nervous almost to the point of hyperventilation. I needn't have been - everyone at the...
In my last post I described a way to list out all your subscribed feeds that haven't been posted to in four months. This works well, but leaves it up to you to do something with those feeds. The next logical step is to let PowerShell worry about them. That is, have the script itself automatically delete...
With the new year well and truly underway, it's time to go over all those RSS feeds you're subscribed to, and clean out the ones that don't get updated any more. But how? How could you possibly know which feeds haven't been posted to in the past, say, four months? Why - with Windows PowerShell...
Bill Gates just wrapped up his keynote at CES, and for me the most interesting announcement was that of Windows Home Server. The idea is that you install WHS on a relatively low-end PC (the minimum specs are a 1GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM), and plonk it in a cupboard at home. It doesn't need a monitor or...