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My Dad …
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My Dad celebrated his 80th birthday two days ago. It only seems yesterday when I was looking forward to seeing my Dad come through the door of our bungalow, where I grew up. I didn’t see him much during the working week, as he was always away, but I treasured the weekends, as he would… more …
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The Jury is Still Out Apparently …
If you’ve been following my ‘rant’s’ on the environment, check this one out. Just to clarify, I ain’t against environmental protection, I’m very much a huge supporter of protecting our environment, wild life and eco-systems. What I’m against is politicians and companies hijacking the whole ‘global-warming’ pop-culture for their own ends, and trying to impose their own prejudiced… more …
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SQLBits Community Conference is on 6th October
The DDD style of events is really taking off here in the UK. Now the database guys have taken up the mantel and are putting on SQLBits. Taking place on Saturday Oct 6th the first SQL Community conference (SQLBits – http://www.SQLBits.com) will have 20 sessions in 4 tracks (Business Intelligence, DBA, Development and Katmai) .… more …
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Will he? Won’t he? Will he? Yes he will ….
After months of soul searching and chewing his fingers to the bone, Craig Murphy has bitten the bullet. He’s released the secret diaries of the MVP ‘Global’ Summit … Well sort of. In fact its a podcast, in the loosest sense of the word, recorded during the latter stages of a particularly party filled evening in the… more …
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NxtGenUG have a new Region – Cambridge!
The Boyz (that’s Rich, John, Chris, Barry and me) from NxtGenUG are absolutely delighted to announce the opening of a brand new NxtGenUG region – this time in Cambridge. So now Developers from the flatlands of East Anglia can gather together to learn, chat, eat Pizza and get ‘swagged’ in the ‘NxtGenUG Way’… more …
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I’M HEADING FOR XSLT HEAVEN!!
Really interesting posting on MSDN Blogger Chris Koenig on a new VS2008 add-in called IronXSLT. Thanks to Richie for pointing this out to me. You can read the full posting at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig/archive/2007/08/16/ironxslt.aspx, but with intellisense a VISUAL DESIGNER for XSLT, XSLT Refactoring, LINQ2XSLT, XPath Intellisense and a host of other stuff, it looks like I’m… more …
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SkyDrive
A ‘nice’ new Live service on offer by Microsoft is SkyDrive, basically storage on the web. This used to be Windows Live Folders I think. Now THIS is handy, as there are always those occasions when you want to get stuff passed around and FTP ain’t available, the USB key isn’t an option, neither… more …
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Climate Change? … Well, Well, Well …
My Environmental Rant a while back seems to have had some substance added to it … It seems that the MAIN database which Al Gore and his cohorts love to quote from had a software bug in it (who did the testing?!!). It now seems that 1998 was not the hottest year on record ,… more …
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Just Got Back …
Just got back from me holidays Sunny Spain, missed the rain, which obviously didn’t fall on the plain, but in Bri-tain , ho ho ho … Just mooched around the pool, beach but I did do a hike up Spain’s 2nd highest peak 3394m in the Seirra Nevada, well, we drove up to 2500m and… more …
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I’ve got me a 3D Vista Desktop … Nice!
At the June Coventry NxtGenUG meeting, Ben Hall briefly showed a Vista 3D Desktop a la Linux Beryl. Well I liked it so much I downloaded it and took a screen shot ‘semi-rotated’ (see below for image) The software is called Yod’m 3d (Yet Another Desktop manager apparently!) and has recently been bought from… more …
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