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[OT] FYI: Skype Credit from South Africa
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:54 AM

A year or so ago I tried to buy some Skype credit with my Standard Bank credit card, but their system would not allow me to process the transaction. I know a few other people who had the same problem. Well I decided to give it a bash again this morning and this time the transaction went through, so they have obviously improved their backend somewhat – if... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | with no comments

Filed under: Useful Advice, South Africa

[Non-technical] BlogMailr, Motorbikes, Revver etc...
Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:49 PM

The real reason for this post is to test the BlogMailr tool that is getting so much hype at the moment but just so that I don’t completely waste your time, here is a dodgy handycam video of a daredevil biker in a cage from the opening night of Tech-Ed 06 at Sun City! Speaking of which, has anyone else tried Revver yet? I uploaded a few vids to test it and... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | with no comments

Filed under: Community, Utilities, Useful Advice

[Dotnet.org.za] Embedded YouTube videos
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:32 AM

If you would like to embed YouTube videos in a blog post on dotnet.org.za, all you need to do is add a tag at the place in the post you would like to embed the video with the following format (leave out the + signs): [+YouTube+:+videoID+] When you publish the post the tag will automagically be replaced by the video with the videoID you specified. The id of the... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | with no comments

Filed under: Useful Advice, Admin, Dotnet.org.za

Obscure SVN checkout error
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:25 PM

This might help someone out of a tight spot some day... At my current company we have our SVN repository on a linux box but we develop on Windows machines. This afternoon I checked in a new file (ReadMe.txt) and then afterwards I updated my local respository* and got this error: Error: Can't copy 'C:\[path]\.svn\tmp\text-base\ReadMe.txt.svn-base'... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | 2 comment(s)

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Triple boot XP, Vista and Ubuntu
Friday, August 18, 2006 3:27 PM

Great post on how to get this right - going to give it a bash on my TabletPC this weekend, if I get time. With the right hardware it should be possible to quadruple boot (ie OS X), shouldn't it? [Via LifeHacker ] Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | 2 comment(s)

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Engineers !< Managers != Leaders
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:42 AM

What is wrong with a great majority of software companies in South Africa (and possible the everywhere else, but I can only speak from my experience here)? I think this quote from Steve Yegge sums it up well [1]: "Software companies that prize managers above engineers are guided by their own Invisible Hand to become a henhouse of clucky managers pecking viciously... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | with no comments

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How not to lead geeks...
Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:49 PM

I have worked for a fair number of companies in my eight and a bit years as a software developer, both full time and as a contractor. Thinking back to the kind of managers that I worked under and their management styles, some of them 'got it', but most of them just flat out didn't. This is a list of the top 10 mistakes that managers make when leading geeks, and... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | 3 comment(s)

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Work more by working less
Friday, April 21, 2006 3:48 PM

Sounds a little counter-intuitive, doesn't it? Well, it is what Steve Pavlina advocates in his article entitled Triple Your Personal Productivity . Other methods and techniques that he has suggested have worked very well for me in the past, so next week I am going to give this one a bash - will report back on my progress and let you know if this is an effective... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | with no comments

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In the beginning there was the object...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:11 PM

Generics: A Bedtime Story In the beginning there was the object, and it was given unto the Programmers that they might have dominion over the Code. The Programmers loved and nurtured the object, putting it to good use, and they created many, many objects. But the objects had no way of being collected together and the Programmers had difficulty finding effective... Read More...

by Kevin Trethewey | with no comments

Filed under: Fun Stuff, .NET, Useful Advice