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Ron is blogging again, giving us a little how-to about code-reuse when validating classes . This is great stuff, and really makes me want to start using "business objects" in my projects rather than typed (or worse still, untyped) DataSets. Hey Ron! I have a question! Do the various "software factories...
Saw this on the weekend. Pioneer have released the HTP-GS1 - a 5.1 surround-sound system (including amp, speakers and subwoofer) specifically for the Xbox 360. I guess it makes for a great jumping-on point for 360 owners who don't yet have 5.1 sound, and to top it off it looks really nice, sharing the...
Dunno how it works, but apparently as of Windows Media Player 11 beta 2 you can stream video to your Xbox360 - something which hasn't been possible up 'til now unless (like me) you have Windows XP Media Center Edition. I'm sure Crucible will be interested in this, among others. Update! From what I've...
Just got back from an overnight trip with Crucible to our nation's capital, where Microsoftie Ron Jacobs did his " Patterns and Anti-Patterns for SOA " presentation. It was great to meet Ron in person (I've been listening to his ARCast software-architecture podcast for some time), and to see him talk...
The Xbox team has just released another update for backwards-compatibility. This one adds a tonne of new (well, old) games to the list, which is good to see. Unfortunately, I don't own any of them! :-) I live in hope that someday soon an update will be released that includes the greatest original-Xbox...
This is the second time I've upgraded Community Server and forgotten to re-enable ReverseDOS in the web.config file. I can tell straight away that it's not working because of the barrage of spam comments that appear overnight. CS 2.1's new spam filters are pretty good - they seem to catch...
That didn't take long! My mabster360 theme now has a tag cloud (you can see it over there on the right, unless you're reading this blog via its web feed), and I have gone back over a bunch of posts and added some more tags. I love the ability to add tags on the fly, as you edit or create a post. So much...
Holy crap! It worked!!! My mabster360 skin still appears to work and everything! So - for the benefit of others: I had two errors in my upgrade process, both in the SQL script that brings the membership tables up to ASP.NET 2.0's standards (cs_ASPNET2_Membership_Schema_Update.sql). They were collation...
Check out Birmo's post about the Borg and how one particular episode took on a whole new meaning when viewed "post 9/11". ps. I'm hoping to upgrade our site tonight, so if this post disappears then it's because something went horribly wrong and I had to restore a backup of our database...