Windows Mobile- January 30, 2008 Last week I attended a training session on windows mobile, the training focused on the corporate features of windows mobile and exchange 2007. Well that inspired me to go and get a HTC TyTN II on the Three network. I rarely stray outside their coverage area, so I think they will be a good fit. The device is absolutely awesome, I've used a number of windows mobile devices over the years and I haven't been overly impressed with them. There are still a few things that really annoy me with...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,344910e0-8b0e-420b-a98d-e47997fd7915.aspx Visual Studio helpful XML tips- January 16, 2008 I've been doing a bit of XML work lately, writing and testing XSLT's. I've found that visual studio 2008 is a fantastic environment for this. Firstly you need to use the properties window of an XML document the two relevant properties are the Schemas and Stylesheet settings. By assigning a schema to your XML document you will then get validation and intelli-sense when you edit your XML document. The stylesheet property allows you to select an XSLT to apply to the XML document you are...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,c6ae10f5-45c0-41ce-8495-59782c481cc8.aspx Head First Design Patterns- January 16, 2008 One of the subjects I did for my masters degree was enterprise design patterns based around Fowlers Enterprise Architecture book, one part of an assessment piece was to review a book on patterns. I choose the book Head First Design Patterns, at first I thought I would just glance over it and get a feel for what the book was saying, but I found that I couldn't put it down. The narrative for each pattern is really engaging, it takes you down one path to see the mistakes and finally brings you...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,f23aa814-bc4d-4d83-bbf8-5087f02beb8b.aspx 2007 technologies to watch for 2008- January 14, 2008 Last year saw the introduction of a bunch of cool new bits to play with, visual studio 2008, the MVC CTP for ASP.NET and the parallel extension CTP are the things that I'm most interested in. I love the new features in the 3.5 .NET framework offered by visual studio, all the cool language enhancements really make c sweet. I'm also impressed with LINQ, I've been doing some work generating some complex queries with it, the SQL it produced really blew my mind. Combine the parallel extensions...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,7e1fdacc-7a85-4288-9bce-e879b76a3df3.aspx Quad Core Media Center PC- January 14, 2008 Our Media Center PC reached its end of life when we returned from our holidays and found that it wouldn't boot. I had a look at the internals and I found that the power supply was dead. The power supply wasn't a standard off the shelf part that we could easily replace so we bit the bullet and went shopping for a new media center PC. We choose the following: HP m8190a Media Center PC with: Intel Core 2 Quad processor Q66002.4GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB, EM64T, Execute Disable Bit...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,5295ddf3-56e6-427d-b58a-cadb59304287.aspx 2007 gone ...- January 14, 2008 As usual it's been a long time between posts, I guess this post is really just a quick recap of the past year. 2007 was a pretty good year, work wise it was my most productive year by far, work was busy and interesting all year and to top it off I completed my Masters as well, it's going to be hard to top off that in 2008. For 2008 I've moved into a new job, back to the consulting world of ironed shirts and early mornings. I don't really have any well laid plans at the moment, just to see...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,4d7c7575-a49f-45e8-9677-8f9554083978.aspx |