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06 January 2007
S3Drive

If you're reading this blog through the web interface you would have noticed that there's been some changes to the site. As part of these changes I also took the opportunity to review some of the administrative processes like backups. Currently I'm backing up my blog together with some other data to... Read More...

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Filed under: General, dotnet.org.za, S3, Amazon

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

22 November 2006
SSL Certificate Updated

I've updated the SSL Certificate on dotnet.org.za to a proper web server certificate from Thawte to resolve the problems with Windows Cardspace based logins caused by the previous intermediate CA reliant Starfield certificate. (What a waste of money that was) If you've previously assigned an... Read More...

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

20 November 2006
MetaWeblog API - newMediaObject

Just applied the official Community Server MetaWeblog API update to allow direct uploading of images and other files to my blog through the MetaWeblog service. If you see at the bottom of the post it's working. On the image: At the rate my Vista RTM download started over the weekend it might just... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Vista, CS, dotnet.org.za, MetaWeblog

09 November 2006
BlogMailr is Live

This is a test post from BlogMailr , the new service from Telligent that allows you to send email directly to your blog. BlogMailr as the name applies,allows users to send email to a blog. While there have been other blog add-ons for email enabling a blog, what makes this tool unique is that it is not... Read More...

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Filed under: General, dotnet.org.za, blogging, blogmailr

31 October 2006
Community Server - Windows CardSpace

A couple of days ago I enabled experimental Windows Cardspace support on http://dotnet.org.za . I mentioned that I'll post the source code and controls but with Tech-Ed Africa and some other work I never got around to posting it. So now the updated Community Server files is available here and the... Read More...

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Filed under: General, CS, dotnet.org.za, WCS, Cardspace

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

24 May 2006
Voxrox Hosting - Excellent Customer Support

Kudos to Voxrox our hosting company for restoring our server, hosting this blog amongst other things, in less than 10 minutes after the support ticket was logged. It's a small dedicated server contract and based on past experiences with previous hosting companies I didn't expect a reply in 24hrs so this... Read More...

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Filed under: General, 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

31 May 2005
Blogging Dinner IV

Or BDEIV for those who follow the light sabres... It's been a while since the last Johannesburg blogging dinner (yet again) and there's several new bloggers here as well as other Gauteng based bloggers. So it might be a good idea to have another one before the winter sets in completely (if it hasn't... Read More...

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Filed under: General, Personal, dotnet.org.za, Fun Stuff