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In less than 2 weeks I start a new contract where everyone works from home.  So i’ve started preparing myself for it… I’ve bought myself a few things…1. Logitech 350 usb skype headset to talk to my new workmates2. Dell … Continued

I purchased a Logitech headset today and enabled vista speech recognition.  It is very cool and yet a little bit frustrating.  Unfortunately although I can start a new blog entry completely using my voice I couldn’t Dictates directly into the … Continued

For those who don’t know…the main expressway for Brisbane peak hour traffic has been closed.  Read more about it here.  Because my bus seems to use the roads everyone else does it too  a few hours to get to work … Continued

IIS7 provides a tighter integration with ASP.NET that will let us do some very cool things like friendly urls, file security etc. In order to get DNN to run I had to make a few changes: 1. Turn on IIS7. … Continued

We went out to Beaudesert today to take some action shots of the RTCB motorX. I was itching to use the built in movie maker in Vista RC2 so check it out courtesy of YouTube. See the photos here.

Went to the 2nd VSTS Tech Brekkie today.  Greg did a great session on Introduction to Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.  As usual he did a great session.  The db stuff is looking pretty cool esp the testing etc.  … Continued

Saw this on news.com. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20555319-13762,00.html Funny how some people will follow instructions that are obviously incorrect and the instinct to live doesn’t kick in.

I downloaded, installed and transfered all my bugs from excel to a proper bug tracker today in 15mins flat. The application is called BugTracker.Net, it’s free, and runs in IIS using SQL server for the database. Installation couldn’t have been easier. … Continued

So i’ve gone and knocked my ipod cable out when it was connected to the pc…when it has the “Do not diconnect” message on.  Normally this is ok..but on this occasion it was busted.  Tried replugging in and everything i … Continued

Been having some “issues” trying to serialize datetime fields from infopath to SQL2005.  The problem lies in the serialization expects a fully qualified datetime value including locale e.g. 2006-09-20T01:56:45+10:00.  However, Infopath, and XML in general doesn’t record the local e.g. … Continued

Bit rusty on the old xsl transforms…but i had a case today where i needed to add a namespace to search one file, but my output file i need to not have that namespace.  It’s actually really easy, once you … Continued

Thought it’d be easier to put the comments here than make a GIANT comment on Frank’s blog. Comments on Tech Ed that most come to mind: Tech Ed The venue – in general it was well layed out and had … Continued

For some reason the built in gettop and getleft methods from Virtual earth don’t work consistantly across all interfaces. Try this more generic function instead. function SetMapOffsets(obj) { if (obj.offsetParent) { mapleft = obj.offsetLeft maptop = obj.offsetTop while (obj = … Continued

I accidentally turned on sticky keys in XP today.  Which, if you’ve ever done makes it really hard to write code, and especially to search Google to switch off. To get rid of Sticky Keys press both Shift keys at … Continued

If you have played with Virtual Earth you will have noticed that if you click on a pushpin it actually cancels the mouseover event and your popup ballon doen’t appear. To fix this you need to add an onclick event … Continued

A little trick for when you add your custom Pushpin in Virtual Earth, if you need to modify the postion of the pin slighty to line up the point of pin or centre of crosshair with the correct pixel you … Continued

Noticed this annoncement on ASX today…7 to take 33% in Engin.  We’ve had Engin for awhile now and we love it.  Our phone bill went down from $80/mth to about $13/mth.  We get to use our existing phone, have a … Continued

A nice new feature in Virtual Earth is the addition of polygons. If you have used polylines then with one additional line of code to set the fill colour you can do polygons. function DrawPoly(id,points,width,color) { poly = new VEPolygon(id,points); … Continued

The Virtual Earth control was updated today to include a number of bug fixes. One important one was to support polylines in firefox and change the z-order so that pushpins appear on top. Here is a little shot of it … Continued

So we downloaded the 2.5 GB Vista RC1 and installed on our DIY media center in the hope it’d fix a few things that annoy us.  Unfortuantly, we now have the world’s most expensive dvd player that only operates using a … Continued

 Looks like i’m not as angry as i thought:   You Are 44% Angry  Generally, you are not an angry person.But you’re easily frustrated and enraged. You have one heck of a temper.And because of your anger, you tend to … Continued

The amount of resources at our election on saturday got me thinking about how much it costs the tax payers of Australia. Did you know a federal election cost in excess of $100 million?http://www.aec.gov.au/_content/when/elections/costs.htm Cost of the 2004 federal election: … Continued

It never ceases to amaze me how manual and error prone the election system is.  Now i know you can check your electoral information on the internet, and they definatly store it in a database cause they sent us a … Continued

This weekend all of Queensland will vote for a new state government. The problem is who do we vote for, i don’t know anybody listed in my seat? How about a website that lists each poly with what they actually … Continued

Useful little function and logic to convert to decimal degrees for use with Virtual Earth private double degreesMinutesSecondsToDecimal(string degminsec) { //Divide the number of seconds by 60, 28.79 ÷ 60 = 0.5166. //Add the result to the number of minutes, … Continued

With so much code be written in javascript for modern web2.0 sites it is important to start using namespaces to ensure your code can won’t conflict with other functions and varibles. This is a nice technique that also allows for … Continued

If you’re having problems when you check out a file that it hasn’t got the latest content make sure you uncheck the “Always check out the working folder version of files” option in VSS

If you’ve modified your form.xsd file and want to get those nodes into your template and sample data files in Infopath 2003…best way i’ve found is: 1. Only works on mandatory items (so you can always make sure the item … Continued

Always forget what number is what version of SQL Server so here’s list of the ones I commonly run into SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘ProductLevel’)GO or SELECT @@VERSIONGO SQL 2005 Release 9.00.1399.06SP1 9.00.2047Hotfix918222 9.00.2153SP2 9.00.3042 SQL 2000 release 8.00.194sp1 8.00.384sp2 8.00.534sp3/3a 8.0.760sp4 8.00.2039  

I didn’t take my 350D to Tech.Ed with me cause I didn’t feel like lugging my camera equipment around with me, so we took the old 2 MP Canon IXUS.  Unfortunatly i couldn’t find the charger before we left, so … Continued