From the monthly archives:

April 2007

PRESENTING: As long as we learn from our mistakes…

April 25, 2007General Tech

Thanks to Pete Huish for sending this little gem to me. Yes, we’ve all sat through these kinds of presentations - in fact some of the examples here are so bad I was wondering if they had been staged… but very funny all the same.
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2007/04/24/medc-2007-how-not-to-present.aspx

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INTERNET: Couldn’t connect to Microsoft

April 25, 2007General Tech

SOLUTION: Reduce the MTU setting on my ADSL router
PROBLEM: We had a really weird thing happening from home where wee couldn’t connect to a few web sites. Microsoft was one and SMH (A sydney newspaper) was another. But all others were fine.
Also, Michele and I trouble sending and receiving email from our home account.
I could [...]

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VFP: Goran Zidar blog

April 3, 2007Visual FoxPro

I’m sure you all know about Goran’s blog by now (thanks to Jamie’s link last month). If not then check it out here (RSS here).
Goran is the manager of the Tab Menus project on VFPx, a big supporter of VFP in Australia and an all round good guy (perhaps even a clever cookie
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NET: CodeCampOZ 2007

April 3, 2007General Tech

Just a quick note to publicly thank Mitch and Greg for putting on another excellent code camp this year.
The sessions covered .Net, AJAX, SharePoint, Security, TFS, WCF, WPF, BizTalk, CRM, Windows Mobile 6, Parallel computing and even XNA.
I’ve been to all 3 code camps so far, and in my opinion they are getting better. The presenters [...]

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