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26 June 2007
TwitterGram Web Service

The past couple of days I've been following Dave Winer's Twitters on his progress with Twittergram - In a nutshell it's to the micro-blogging service Twitter what podcasting is to blogging. A 140k post linked to a 200k audio clip. His PuppyGram use-case sample illustrates a possible usage... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, Ruby, Twittergram, Twitter

18 May 2007
Beat the Market

Here's one way to get better returns than from any Nigerian Stock Tip spam email. A well crafted bogus email sent to Apple employees from an Apple smtp server and leaked to Engadget knocks $4 -billion from Apple's market cap in 6 minutes . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it!... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, Apple

21 February 2007
SOA Facts

Just got this via email, some useful facts to keep in mind next time someone extolls the virtues of SOA in a conversation :) SOA is the only thing Chuck Norris can't kill. SOA invented the internet, and the internet was invented for SOA. SOA is not complex. You are just dumb. In the last year, SOA increased... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, soa

06 February 2007
Sharepoint / YouTube

A couple of days back I was looking for some webparts to help a friend embed YouTube content in their Sharepoint Portal site but there doesn't seem to be any webparts available out there with this functionality. So I've wrapped the 2/3 lines it takes to embed YouTube playlists and videos into two webparts... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, youtube, sharepoint

31 January 2007
PowerShell, Windows Vista Ultimate Extras and WLM 8.1

The original post was titled Ultimate Extras vs PowerShell as I felt a little cheated seeing Hold'Em Poker ship before Windows PowerShell but I jumped the gun a bit. PowerShell 1.0 for Vista is available for download !. While the Windows Vista launch went by with less buzz and fanfare than expected there... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Fun Stuff, Messenger, PowerShell

29 January 2007
Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Yahoo! is soon shipping a new version of their Yahoo! Messenger for Vista . This new version was developed from the ground up for Windows Vista using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) . Check out the site and the video clip for a good example of WPF being applied in a real world application. While... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, Fun Stuff, WPF

25 January 2007
Beating A Dead Horse

I've been a bit quite on the blog front lately but just saw the post below on a list I subscribe to and thought it's a pretty apt description of they way many software projects are handled :) Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, XP

28 November 2006
Certification Motivation

Looking to get Microsoft Certified , need some motivation? If a 10 year old kid can pass her Microsoft Certified Application Developer for C# exam it must be child's play ;-) Afra Karim Randhawa is the youngest person known to pass this certification. Most other kids still battle with multiplication... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Fun Stuff

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

20 November 2006
Reach for an Aston Martin

Not everyday you get a chance to scratch off one of your life goals from your list, and not often you get to scratch off one right from the top... which is exactly what happened to local blogger Mike Stopforth . His number #1 goal was to drive an Aston Martin and thanks to Aston Martin SA he's just... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, Aston Martin

17 November 2006
Friday .NET Trivia 1

Stumbled across an interesting piece of code yesterday. Considering what we know about .NET reference and value types two questions regarding the snippet below : Would the snippet below compile? If it compiles how would it work and what would the result be? Venture a guess before compiling :-) 1: using... Read More...

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Filed under: General, .NET, Fun Stuff, C#

07 November 2006
NextAction! - Managing the top of your mind

While working I often find myself making a [wikipedia:Context_switch] between what I'm actually busy with and something completely arbitrary like checking my mail every time I hit a slight interrupt in my work. These context switches, as is the case with a computer, tend to be a very expensive operations... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff, Productivity

08 September 2006
BarCamp Johannesburg - Tomorrow

Just a reminder of BarCamp Johanneburg happening tomorrow and Sunday at the Sci-Bono Science Museum in New Town. It should be quite interesting. Things start at around 9h00 and go on until about 17h00ish. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff

21 July 2006
HotCaptcha

Since we know that CAPTCHA controls are not the solution to C*mm*nt sp*m FrozenBear came up with a sure-fire way of stopping unwanted comments to your blog - HotCaptcha ! Certain to stop bots and other automated commenting mechanisms powered by IMHO 1.3 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff

19 July 2006
Microsoft acquires Winternals/Sysinternals

Microsoft aquired Winternals , the sponsors of the hugely successful Sysinternals tools. While Microsoft decides how to best leverage the various tools and technologies developed by Winternals the current Sysinternals site will remain as is and according to the press release the tools will remain free... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Fun Stuff