Archive forJanuary, 2005

Bid for oyur own personal develper conference !

  Wow, the chance to hire 30 developer presenters for a total of just $3K US !!  Imagine, that’s the equivalent of having almost 4 days of straight presentations, or one in house presentation every week for six months !!  Talk about an absolute bargain.  So what are you waiting for ? Get in there, […]

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Wave goodbye to Crystal Reports ..

  If you are tired of using Crystal Reports, then you jsut got to read this post by Yag !!   Absolutely love it !!!!

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VB Future language enhancements ala Omega ??

  For some time now there has been talk about adding relational aspects to C#.  these days it seems to be the primary think Anders will talk about if you ask him about future language enhancements.  Yag also mentioned how they are working at making these concepts cross language/framework level. See John Wood’s blog entry […]

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there’s chocolate then there’s ….

Carob !!!   I saw Julia’s blog entry about her favourite local business, and I just had to blog about this Aussie company that makes really yummy carob goodies.  I got sent the banana ones and the fruit and nut ones ! this stuff is better than chocolate !!!  

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Bill Gates is blogging !

Well I s’pose this is a sign of blogging being part of the establishment   Add Bill to your RSS feed or visit his blog here.       [via IPattern]

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Pocket PC 2003 and VS.NET 2003

Thanks to a fellow MVP Phil Webster I inherited his PPC 2003 upgrade for the ViewSonic V37 when his Viewsonic met with an untimely death.  I had been trying to get my hands on this some time ago, but when it was available to the rest of the world, Viewsonic wouldn’t ship it to Australia, and […]

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Fixing Default Instances

About six months ago I blogged about some of the issues with Default Instances. More recently Paul started to blog about Default Instances. Now judging from the feedback Paul has gotten, and the conversations I have had, there seems to be a lot of people unhappy about the current implementation… so… in this blog entry […]

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Accessibility is about equality (and freedoms) !!!

Don Kiely blogs asking if folks are interested in accessibility.  Damn straight people do !!! I still remember back in the mid 90’s as part of the work I was doing at a local University I was asked to help someone with their PC.  The person in question was quadriplegic, and relied on voice operated […]

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Got any VB body art ?

Ah, it’s the new year proper now.  Often hard to get motivated the first week in the year, especially here where it’s summer … those lazy hot summer days … plus all the seasonal festivities of friends, family, fun and feasting.. seems such a shame we only do it once a year I think the […]

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FlashWindowEx

Yesterday Mitch posted how he was having trouble with FlashWindowEx API.  I thought I had written that code sometime ago, but I didn’t find it on my system (although perhaps I need better searching software there ), but a quick search on google for me and FlashWindowEx, found this post by Mike showing my code […]

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