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Service Oriented Comics

After listening to another ARCast on the drive home on Friday, I finally decided to bite the bullet and try coding up the "server" side of Comicster (the online database that Comicster connects to to share information from your local collection) from scratch using "service oriented"...

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Error When Dropping a TableAdapter onto the DataSet Designer

Can someone out there in the blogosphere explain this error? I get it intermittently when trying to drop a table from a Data Connection onto my typed-DataSet designer: It also occurs if I try to create a TableAdapter "manually", by right-clicking and selecting "Add|TableAdapter..." - Visual Studio lets...

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AWDNUG September

Another second-Wednesday has passed, and with it another meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group ! Last night featured two presentations: One from Andrew on Reporting Services, and one from Michael on the Application Blocks from Microsoft's Patterns and Practices group. It made for a good night...

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No Cold Shoulder from Dell

What an interesting day. Sal has been complaining for the past few days of a sore shoulder. It has gotten progressively worse each day, so yesterday she saw a doctor about it. He theorised that she has a condition known as " frozen shoulder ". When I heard this, I thought he'd made it up...

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Two Degrees from Royalty

Y'know how they say that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by six degrees of separation or fewer? I found out the other day that I'm connected to genuine royalty by only two degrees. I don't know how many people outside of the US saw the news story of an Australian tourist shot in Jordan...

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New Comicster Version

Just in case there are some Comicster users out there who are subscribed to my blog but don't actively check the forums (I'll be posting there soon): There's a new version of Comicster available. The catch, though, is that you won't see it if you click on "Check for Updates" in the "About" dialog. The...

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ClickOnce Expired Certificate

Damn it! I've got an upgrade I wanted to make to Comicster this weekend, and only now I've realised that the self-generated certificate I was using to sign the application has expired! What does this mean for Comicster users? Well, I'm fairly certain it means that upgrades from the current version won...

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More Credence to the Enough Rope Dead-Pool Theory

Legendary Australian motor-sport champion Peter Brock killed today in a car accident! Appeared on Enough Rope 18/7/2005 ! This is getting spookier and spookier! Who's next? Alice Cooper ? Clive James ? Kevin Spacey ???...

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XNA Invaders

Check out Pete's first little effort with the new XNA Framework: XNA Invaders .

Give 'em Enough Rope...

Oh my god! I just came to a shocking realisation!!! Rene Rivkin Don Chipp Steve Irwin If you appear as a guest on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope , it's the kiss of death!!! Stay away, people!!!...

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