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Did you know that the new “7” logo is actually the top-right corner of the “Windows flag”? Check out this image: I’ve superimposed the “7” from this site (after rotating it counter-clockwise slightly) onto a Windows Flag image I found in a Google Search. I’m sure I’m not the first to realise this, but...
I’m a little late to the party, but ComicVine have released an API for their online database of comics, characters, publishers, creators etc. It’s a fairly comprehensive REST API that lets you pull down details for just about anything in XML format. For example, to search for any character...
In the news recently was the new “XP Mode” feature of Windows 7. You can read Jeff Atwood’s rundown of it here , and Paul Thurrot’s preview of it here . Essentially, XP Mode is an instance of Virtual PC that runs applications in their own little Windows XP environment, but does so in such a way that...
I noticed this morning that a bunch of my RSS subscriptions weren’t updating. Closer inspection revealed that they were predominantly from http://blogs.msdn.com , and their URL ended with “rss.aspx”. When I visited a couple of the blogs in question, I noticed that their RSS links had changed to “rss...
This weekend we attended Code Camp Oz at Wagga. I say “we” because three of my co-workers came along, making for a full car both days. Here’s a quick run-down of the sessions we got to: Saturday SharePoint - follow the yellow brick road to public web-sites Adam Cogan presented on creating public-facing...
A couple of videos you can check out if you’re interested at all in the debate over Internet censorship raging in this country right now (with intelligent, free-thinking people on the “against” side, and politicians and Christian fundamentalists on the “for” side): ABC’s Q&A from Thursday, March...
On Thursday the 19th (yes, it has been a while since I posted) we flew from Melbourne to Hobart and stayed in Tasmania for five nights. A week after returning I figure I’d better put together a post chronicling our Tasmanian adventures while the trip is still relatively fresh in my mind. Since...
Knocked up this handy little extension method last week to help us mock the use of IDbCommand (and its associated classes) to test some ADO.NET code. The idea is that you pass in the text and type of the command, and an anonymous type representing the parameter names and values that you expect it to...
Last night on Lateline there was (finally) a story about the current government’s plan to introduce a mandatory, ISP-level Internet filter. I don’t need to expand on why this is such a bad idea – there has been plenty written about it. Right now it’s only a subset of the government...
Last night was the first meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group for 2009. It was a pleasant surprise to see four or five new faces, as Anton (one of our original members) has scored a new job at Charles Sturt University and managed to drag some of his co-workers along with him! Not only that,...