Dave Mc's Blog

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Craig Murphy is Podcasting!

    Craig Murphy Scottish Developers organiser, speaker, DDD organiser, all-round ‘calmest bloke I know’ and fellow Connected Systems MVP is podcasting, with a little help from my wife Sandra, …. eh?  Well Sandra is so great at getting stuff in one take, that Craig asked if she could do the start and finish of his podcasts. Here’s… more …

  • I’m getting a little tired of so called Enviromentalists!

    This blog is not a political one obviously, but there comes a time in all our lives when you have to vent your spleen, and with the farce this weekend of the Live Earth concert, I’m sorry I just have to have my say!  In order that I get on lots of Search Engines,… more …

  • DDD5 – The Aftermath Part 2

    I’ve uploaded the PowerPoint and the code for my session at DDD5 to here.  If you ain’t got PowerPoint 2007, shame on you, but you can view the file still, by downloading the viewer .     more …

  • DDD5 – Another Cracking Day!

    I spent a good deal of time last week getting more than a little nervous about my session XSLT ‘Extreme’ which I was to give at the start of DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Day Number  5 (DDD5). You always wonder how a session is going to be received, and as XSLT is a somewhat ‘left field’ subject,… more …

  • DINIS CRUZ SECURITY TRAINING

    Our good friend Dinis Cruz is it again with Security Training Galore! He’s going to be delivering a couple of great courses over the next couple of months:   The first one’s a course he’s doing with Ounce Labs on 12th and 13th in London at the Thistle Marble Arch. The course is entitled:… more …

  • Stargate Atlantis – it’s great …

    Like a lot of people in our industry, I have been and guess I always will be a bit of a Sci-Fi buff. I’ve followed the antics of the Star Trek crews, but decidely did not like Enterprise.  Never reallly been into Battlestar, etc, BUT I saw the original Stargate Movie with Kurt Russell… more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …