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04 May 2007
Community Server Upgrade

While waiting for a connecting flight out of Washington back home I had a couple of hours spare to get some of my long outstanding TODO's for http://dotnet.org.za done: Finally upgraded the site to Community Server 2007. CS2007 looks great and I've been wanting to do this for way too long. Upgraded... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, CS, dotnet.org.za, Cardspace, infocard

25 November 2006
del.icio.us - Automatic Blog Post (Tagging Update)

I've updated the HttpHandler for Community Server del.icio.us daily blog post support I posted yesterday to include post tagging. The updated del.icio.us.ashx can be downloaded from here and the code is also included at the bottom of the post. Despite the fact that the metaweblog.newPost API used... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, CS, dotnet.org.za, ASP.NET, del.icio.us

24 November 2006
del.icio.us - Automatic Blog Post

[ Update : I've updated this post with tag support here ] http://del.icio.us has a very useful feature, the daily blog posting, which creates a daily blog post with all the links you tagged during the previous 24 hours. So instead of trying to memorise links and then post when you get a chance, whenever... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, CS, dotnet.org.za, Fun Stuff, del.icio.us

27 October 2006
Google Custom Search Engine

While at Tech-Ed Google announced a new custom/social search engine you can use to customize search results to be relevant to your personal preferences and interested ala Eurekster called Google Custom Search . I've added a Google Custom Search Engine link to the top of my blog you can use to search... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, dotnet.org.za, Search, Google

12 June 2006
Windows CardSpace

Microsoft's Naming department definitely got it right this time, renaming Infocard to Windows CardSpace (WCS). WCS is probably the most underrated of the new .NET Framework 3.0 developer technologies. While Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Presentation Foundation are all fantastic products... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Vista, dotnet.org.za

20 January 2006
Positions Available - .NET/Symbian

I've posted several .NET jobs on my blog before, mostly for other people or companies, but this is for some open positions on our team at Red Five Labs. If you're really passionate about development and keen to work in a very challenging environment where you get to implement the CLI/.NET framework on... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Personal, dotnet.org.za, Symbian, CF, Mono

28 January 2005
DateTimeFormatInfo - Month Names Tip

A useful class to remember for localized date and time settings is DateTimeFormatInfo in the System.Globalization namespace. I needed to get some localized month names for use in an application today and felt pretty sure that there must be a framework class that provides this service, so poking around... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, dotnet.org.za, ASP.NET