Sat 28 – Bangkok – Temples
So we get up pretty early cause at 7am it feels like 10am and pack up our stuff ready to stash our bags for the day. Go to put my Bangkok Lonely Planet in my shoulder bag and can’t find … Continued
So we get up pretty early cause at 7am it feels like 10am and pack up our stuff ready to stash our bags for the day. Go to put my Bangkok Lonely Planet in my shoulder bag and can’t find … Continued
So we arrived at the airport just over 3hrs early in hope of securing ourselves a decent seat. When we found Thai airways we were met with a very long queue and came to the realisation that we were probably … Continued
My gen3 Ipod has served me well on many a long plane trip across the world or within Australia but after several years the battery has lost it lifespan. I had simply assumed it would spend the rest of it … Continued
Ok..couldn’t help myself…we did a dash to the Gold Coast to grab me a new 70-200 f4L IS lens for the trip. It’s really light and really sharp. Took a quick snap of the dog at ISO800 and still very … Continued
We just came back from a weekend in Canberra where i took the opportunity to take some pics in the little spare time we had. As the Sunday was very grey it showed up lots of “spots” in the some … Continued
For anyone who cares…we’re off to Thailand for 2 weeks on Friday. When and if we get to and internet cafe or two we’ll be posting our adventrues here…so stay tuned. Our itinery is posted earlier here. If you’re only … Continued
In preparation for our recent presentation on Virtual Earth I made a few “backup videos” of the demos we were going to show. We’ve tried a few different screen capture tools before and most of them seemed to kill your pc … Continued
We did our presentation of Virtual Earth for Scalable Applications last night. John spoke tirelessly for 1.5 hours and we only had a few minor glitches and even had an internet connection so we didn’t need the “backup video demos” … Continued
Video: The 10min Map
We just got back from Age of User Experience Brisbane session. It was great to see an event in Brisbane. Overall, I found the session disappointing..felt like it hadn’t been properly prepared and parts of it seemed like it hadn’t … Continued
Just sitting here looking at my injuries from my “fun” activities for the week…and realised how we simply accept them and think no more of it. If i got the same injuries at work…would I be so forgiving…don’t think so… I … Continued
Trip To Thailand – Plans for far Date Details 27 April Flight: Thai Airways TG984 Depart Brisbane 15:20 Arrive Bangkok 21:40 Hotel: Trang Hotel Bangkok 99/1 Wisutkasart Road Bangkok 10200 +66 228114023 28 April Walking Tour pg 116 Wat … Continued
The other day I wrote about my new toy – LED tap light and promised some pics. So here it is…isn’t it cool . Unfortunatly, it’s probably a water wasting device…since you just look for an excuse to use the … Continued
I signed up for Cluster Maps the other day and put it on our blog page. Ever since I seem to find myself checking on the progress of the little dots each day, to see if they’ve changed and grown. … Continued
With Version 5 of Virtual Earth unoffically released as part of the upgrade of maps.live.com I have had a quick look at the performance and it is great news! Compression has been enabled for not only V5 but also V4 … Continued
Today the VE team released an update to Virtual Earth and have converted http://maps.live.com to the new version. Of particular interest is the support of 3D in Firefox, until now it was IE only. On the VE side the new features of … Continued
With mixed emoticons I opened an email from support@mvpaward.com today, here we go I thought, someone is having an april fools day prank, but as I read the email, clicked on the link, agreed to the NDA and received my MSDN … Continued
Yes camera phones take pretty aweful photos but i stumbled onto a cool 1/3 effect on the JASJAM while scrabling to take a photo of Darren mountain biking today. The setting merges 3 quick photos into a single long one … Continued
Picked myself up one of these from Think Geek. Fitting that goes on the end of a tap that lights up when water goes through it…and temperature sensitive to give red / blue light. Was a bit worried about the … Continued
I come across this trick every so often so thought it best to write it down. In the AJAX world it seems this is more and more common, why would i ever want to post back again? If you have … Continued
I just booked my flight to attend the Virtual Earth Seminar in Sydney on April 2nd. It is out at North Ryde so if anyone wants to share a cab ride I am flying in on Qantas at 11:15am.
I needed to turn on content expiration for a single file and wanted to do it through IIS so i didn’t have to write code (lazy me). Cause i’m blind took me a while to find. To set a single … Continued
I installed Visual Studio Team Suite awhile back and haven’t had to use TFS yet. So now I want to use TFS, there’s no “Connect to TeamFoundation Server” option under tools. After looking at MSDN I discover you have to … Continued
I had a problem where i had a UDF on 2 databases with the same data that were returning different results. The query that was running was basically: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Comment WHERE Date <> NULL DB1 would give me … Continued
I’m not going to debate the merits and flaws in UAC but here is a tip for those people that use UAC and hate the video mode change that causes that annoying flicker. In group policy editor – gpedit.msc there … Continued
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting an evening of Virtual Earth at the April meeting of the QLD MSDN user group. If you would like to attend please come along. So does anyone have any specific … Continued
Its been a long time comming but i published today my 2nd revision of the very popular article on clustering virtual earth pins. This revision utilises MS AJAX web services and the server side code is in C#. Full example … Continued
I seem to do this accidentally all the time…I hit the Don’t show Check In dialog box when checking in items. To get it back goto Tools ->Options Open Source Control -> Environment and untick the “Don’t show Checkin dialog … Continued
Was playing around with ASP.Net membership providers and I’d created a few users and roles and everything looked happy. Then i ran my application and I just couldn’t log in. Upon investigation the app thought that there were 0 users … Continued
FYI: Bank cheques don’t have an expiry date. Personal cheques have a lifetime of 18 months. I had to go to the bank today, so took along one of John’s really old cheques from 2003 (it was a bank cheque) … Continued