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So by now i am sure you've all seen the Zpiro comic and you have your own thoughts on it. He then proceeded to update it this morning with this one ... My thoughts .... well good for him! It is not racist. It is not sexist. It is simply portraying the situation in South Africa as many of us who are not blinded by the mob mentality see it to be! Glad to see that somebody in this country still has the balls to tell it like it is. To hell with political-correctness, to hell with hiding behind your...
When the first beta for IE8 was announced I rushed out, downloaded it and installed it eager to see what the IE team had been up to ... Well let's just say that the beta lasted about 5 days on my machine before it was removed. The best thing about beta 1 was the uninstaller that actually removed all traces of the beta properly. So when beta 2 of IE8 was announced last week it was with some skepticism that I hit the download link, and with even more doubt that I installed it. My initial thoughts...
So with the MVP summit currently under way in Redmond I am once again reminded of the different caliber local MVPs out there. Some of the guys are brilliant and do fabulous work in the communities for their respective areas of speciality. They blog constantly with interesting posts, tips and tricks that they've picked up from their daily experiences using the technologies. They host community events, deep dives, training sessions; often free to the community. Even now as we speak, whilst they're...
There used to be the best website, called the Daily WTF, out there where as a developer you could submit the most ridiculous gems of "code" you happen to stumble across in your everyday existence... Reading through the various posts and comments used to provide me with some light hearted relief knowing that we walk amongst some very "special" people that call themselves developers. The site appears to no longer exist or has change guise. Something about it's not PC to ridicule...
So with all the hype about Visual Studio 2008 that has RTM'D I rushed on over to my favorite browser and headed off to the subscriber download site; only to be greeted with the following ... Let's hope the product is better than the download site! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I am currently working on this really cool integration project where I'm automating a number of business processes using BizTalk orchestrations. The data comes in through a variety of sources and trading partners and ultimately gets pumped in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 using the adapter built by MS. One of the gotchas that I ran into was on create / update I was getting an error coming back from CRM saying the following: "Error Description: Input Xml is having some invalid attributes"...
All IMHO opinion of course, but I think this is completley and utterly insane. Take a look at the commerical below and tell me if you think there is something wrong, insensitive, offensive or any of the other choice words used to describe it. Yes it features multiple black men in a sprinting pose .... Yes it features a white man standing there with folded arms. But is this racist? I mean really? It simply projects sprinters as black men .... is this derogatory? NO! Take a look at the latest IAAF...
For those who never read the related post, go here , and then perhaps you will start to understand why right now my blood pressure is through the roof ..... The saga continues; Not wanting to wait until next week to have this resolve I decided to drive out to offices of digitalplanet in Sandton and collect the correct product myself. Upon return to the office I opened up the packaging and opened the case to reveal a Western Digital WD1200UE drive. A quick look at Western Digital's website shows...
... and quite frankly should stay there and leave people on earth to go about doing business without them. What a bunch of complete and utter useless idiots! No wonder online shopping in South Africa is struggling to gain the popularity that it enjoys in "technology" savy countries around the world. I ordered a product. Cipherwave 2.5" external HDD , from them on the 1st of June. When ordering there was no warning or indication that they had no stock and that my order would be placed...
I so hope not but i fear it to be true ..... Lemme take you back a few steps my dear readers so you will understand the context of this rant. When ActiveSync 3.x launched I was a happy puppy because I could sync my content my my mobile device. Nothing special here you may say, but there was a very nice little feature is this range of versions that allowed me to choose which contacts from Outlook I wanted to sync to my mobile device. In outlook I categorise my 1,000 odd contacts and have a category...