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Just caught this news (a couple of days old now) on xpmediacentre.com.au . epgStream.net is a small group of coders based in Sydney who are putting together a free EPG solution for Australian users of Windows XP Media Center Edition. They're already supporting a bunch of capital cities, and it looks...
This weekend I installed Community Server 2.0 on our new site for AWDNUG. Originally I wanted it to run under ASP.NET 2.0, but the host enforces medium trust, and I had problems doing a few things (like adding feeds to the Reader), so we have reverted to ASP.NET 1.1 for now. I hear that CS 2.1 fixes...
I just read about this nifty idea on Xboxic . There's an Xbox Live Arcade came coming out soon called Small Arms . One of the game's achievements is called "Six Degrees of Small Arms", and it's a unique achievement in the Xbox Live world. The idea is that four guys who work at Gastronaut (the game development...
Hi gang, I've been lax in blogging of late because I've been ridiculously busy at work. The project that my co-worker Julie and I have spent the last two years on shipped at our largest site this week (it was supposed to be last week, but that's another story). So ... about a dozen PC clients...
I'm a big fan of screencasts. As helpful as blog posts can be when learning about new technologies, it's hard to beat seeing the stuff in action. So when Steve Lasker posted a screencast about the installation story for SQL Server Everywhere (including ClickOnce deployment), I was first in line...
This afternoon I played a bit more Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter . I finished it on normal difficulty a while back, and have been playing it through on hard difficulty. The end is in sight, but I have to say it has been a great game. Having said that ... I'm starting to tire of the first-person-shooter...
Great news for fellow denizens of the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as Albury/Wodonga! Google Maps (and Google Earth) now has detailed satellite imagery for our fair city. Check it out here . My house is on that map. :) The photos themselves are a bit out of date. There are changes to streets...
This neat little pictorial reminds me a lot of the Total Perspective Vortex , so if you are prone to bouts of insanity, you may not want to visit: The Size of Our World ....
Shyam Pather just posted a couple of screencasts on the Data Access blog . The screencasts ( part 1 here ) demonstrate the new features of "ADO.NET vNext" (or ADO.NET 3.0) like the new "Entity" framework and the accompanying "Entity SQL", as well as LINQ. Well worth watching...
A description of fixes and a link to the download is available on the .NET Compact Framework Team Blog . I'm particularly happy about this fix: For the HttpWebRequest method, an uncatchable ObjectDisposedException could occur when exiting an application with asynchronous requests. You wouldn't...