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Many thanks to Microsoftie Dave Glover for his presentation tonight on Windows Mobile Development at our latest AWDNUG meeting. Dave shared his thoughts, tips and tricks about developing for the smartphone and pocket PC platforms, from both the web and smart-client perspectives. He also touched on some...
Got back yesterday from our road trip down the Great Ocean Road. We stayed away three nights. One in Melbourne (for which no Google Maps link should be necessary), one in Lorne , and one in Ballarat . The drive itself is a lot of fun - it alternates between lush rainforest and coastal beaches, with plenty...
There's no argument that web feeds (RSS, ATOM etc) are taking off. Many, many web sites (all the good ones, anyway) now have feeds that I can subscribe to. Add to that the benefits of trackbacks, where linking from one site to another will provide a link on the destination site back to the source...
On Friday night I stayed up to watch the first showing of jtv , TripleJ radio's new TV program. It turned out to be pretty entertaining - a good mix of music and interviews. Anyway, one set featured two of the guys from Death Cab For Cutie doing a cover of Billy Bragg's "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"...
For a few days next week there won’t be any posts on Mabsterama. You’re probably used to that by now – I’ve been so busy at work that I haven’t been posting as often as I normally do anyway. The reason for the downtime next week is that Sal and I are heading down to the south of Victoria to do the Great...
Ok – this is a blog post from Word 2007. I don’t know if this is something that I’ll do a lot of – I like the “hands on” approach of blogging on the site – but it’s interesting nonetheless. Office 2007 really does rock. I’m gonna categorize this post as “.NET Development” ‘coz I think the fact that you...
Y'know, unless I'm looking in the wrong place, it's not possible to hide or customize an item on a Reporting Services report depending on whether the report is being viewed on screen or printed. I think it'd be a great addition to the product if you could somehow programatically determine whether a report...
Pete over at BrownBot has released the first beta of his new game, Dispell (formerly known as "Rhys Quest"). I playtested this with my two nephews (aged 4 and 5) on the weekend, and they loved it. This beta is a little newer than the version I was playing, so I'll have to grab it myself and try it out...
I don't even know where I picked this little tip up from. I think I read an example query on someone's blog recently. Every SQL developer at some point has had to write a query that includes the "WHERE EXISTS" clause. You're looking for rows in one table where an equivalent row...
This weekend I've been playing Cloning Clyde , the new Xbox Live Arcade game by NinjaBee. Cloning Clyde is a 2D (although it's all 3D rendered) platformer, where you play as Clyde, a hapless guy who was given $20 to take part in a cloning experiment. Needless to say, things have gone horribly wrong,...