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08 October 2007
ASP.NET MVC Framework
This would be very heartening news for anyone dreading the prospect of having to back to ASP.NET Webforms after working with RoR or MonoRail. Scott Guthrie 's team is working on a proper MVC Framework for ASP.NET. Some of the goals of the framework (lifted straight from Jeffrey Palermo's blog... Read More...
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19 September 2007
High Scalability Architectures
Got sent an interesting link to http://highscalability.com yesterday. It's worth checking out if you are interested in the design decisions and general approach taken by some of the really high-traffic sites on the web. Some examples: Amazon Architecture Digg Architecture YouTube Architecture Flickr... Read More...
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03 July 2007
FeedBurner FreeBurner
FeedBurner users, which basically means almost the entire blogosphere, got a little bonus in their feed readers today after the recent acquisition of FeedBurner by Google. Two of its previously for-pay services is now completely free, TotalStats Pro and MyBrand. If you head over to the Analyze tab under... Read More...
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02 July 2007
Mobile.rb
The power of Ruby in the palm of your hand. It doesn't get much cornier than that but here is two projects to get some Ruby applications going on your Symbian or Windows Mobile 5 device... Ruby for Symbian OS An official release from Symbian to accompany their " Runtime environments on Symbian... Read More...
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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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14 June 2007
Morning Wrap 2007/06/14
In the past I've relied on del.icio.us to post a wrap up of some interesting links to my blog. While this was a very quick and easy way to do it it you are restricted by the social bookmarking service's limit on the description field length. So until I find a new service that allows arbitary... Read More...
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11 June 2007
Command Prompt Here - Vista
I'm probably the last person to pick up on this little Vista Feature but you don't need to use a Powertoy anymore to get the very useful "Open Command Prompt Here" explorer context menu shortcut. Today searching for the Powertoy I stumbled across this post by Tim Sneath from 2006 :... Read More...
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10 June 2007
Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0
Parallels recently released version 3.0 of their Parallels Desktop for Mac software . While the integration between Mac OS X and Windows in the previous Parallels release were good this release makes it even more seamless. Parallels is definitely still my favorite piece of Mac software at the moment... Read More...
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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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04 May 2007
Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3
Last night I replaced my Windows Vista based development Virtual Machine with a fresh new Windows Longhorn Server Beta 3 installation. I've always preferred using a server based OS for development instead but this is the first Longhorn build that feels solid enough to run as a development machine. Wikipedia... Read More...
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02 May 2007
Joost Invites
I've got a couple of unlimited new Joost invites left to give away and no more friends or family to send them to, so if you want an invite just leave a comment with your name and email address and I'll send one your way. (You will need good bandwidth to make it worthwhile) [ Update : It seems... Read More...
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30 April 2007
OR Tambo Discount...
I've got a couple of minutes to kill before departing to the MEDC and while I'm waiting for the boarding call I thought I might as well share a small airport tip/hack that can save you some money in the duty free at OR Tambo Airport. At OR Tambo/Johannesburg International there's a promotion to encourage... Read More...
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17 April 2007
Microsoft MEDC 2007
Just two more weeks until... Microsoft MEDC 2007 Location:The Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Dear Armand du Plessis, Thank you for registering for the Microsoft MEDC 2007 conference. This message confirms your attendance to this conference at The Venetian Resort Hotel. Please save or print this... Read More...
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10 April 2007
Qumana - Blog Editor
After some initial issues getting it to work I tried Ecto for a while before deciding it's not the tool for me. The interface lacks the intuitive usability of other applications on Mac and the lack of proper WYSIWYG editing makes it difficult to d but the most basic post formatting. I'm sure like other... Read More...
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13 March 2007
Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit
After a missed connection from Chicago to Seattle thanks to a delayed flight from London I'm now finally on my way to the Microsoft 2007 MVP Global Summit in Seattle. Or I should say almost as this flight is also delayed and it might take another hour or so to actually get under way. I was hoping to... Read More...
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