At work we use Subversion for source code version control and the excellent CruiseControl.NET (ccnet) for continuous integration.One of the things we do is version all of the assemblyinfo files with the subversion revision number. This way all the files we release have a build number that can be traced directly back to the subversion revision... Read more

The web is all of a sudden flooded with iPhone stories. Here's one that includes a picture of the device and some thoughts on what this might mean in the future.The release is in the middle of the year in the U.S. Hopefully it'll be the same time in Australia. Guess it's time to start saving... Read more

OK, so it's probably not the size of the YouTube purchase, but Yahoo has shelled out for MyBlogLog. I posted previously about MyBlogLog as a stats and link tracking system, however one aspect I didn't really dwell on is the social side of it - something which most stats systems don't have.It appears that this social... Read more

I've just finished reading iWoz - the Steve Wozniak biography. It's a pretty quick and easy read (took me 2 days) detailing how Steve designed the Apple I & Apple II, pulled pranks, organised music festivals and got into teaching.The book was fairly interesting for me and I did get a bit out of it, but... Read more

For some reason my blog post about the Zune XP Theme has turned up on the front page of the Google search results. Anyway, I don't really like the wallpaper that comes with the theme, so I persoannly use the image below.This is a photo of Lake Louise taken by my wife a few months back... Read more

New Years celebrations this year were a little different. Being on the Gold Coast instead of in Sydney for New Years means that the usual extravagant fireworks display Sydney usually puts on was traded in for a local fireworks show at Paradise Point.It was a lovely night, sitting by the water with the family, and when... Read more

I'm on holidays at the moment, which is why my blogging is a little slow. At the moment I'm kicking back on the Gold Coast and having a very relaxing and lazy time. For instance today I've been out on a boat for a while, watched Happy Feet with the kids, played a bit of Zelda,... Read more

Frank Arrigo has blogged that he had a "crazy day" where he started at 8AM and didn't finish until 6PM, that he grabbed some food on the go and didn't even get to write a blog entry.  Fair enough. But since the hours mentioned are a normal day for me (I'm usually here at or before... Read more

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is available for download (just in case you weren't aware) and at a hefty 440 Mb it certainly takes a while to get it. But if you think the download takes a while, wait until you try the installation. Man-oh-man! What an ordeal - over 2 hours for the installation,... Read more

Well, it's finally happened.  The blogger beta has gone Live!  I've been using the beta for the last 6 months or so and I must say "Well done!" to the Blogger team -  the new changes are very very welcome. I'm now looking forward to the next version ;-) Read more

There's an interesting post at Ajax Performance about the inbuilt browser limits on the number of connections per host and how increasing that limit can help improve page load times. If you serve up a fair amount of static content in your web applications/sites then this is a performance tip that is probably worth considering.  Especially... Read more

I got home tonight and my Wii had a blue glow around the disk slot. Curious I turned it on and saw I had a mail message indicating that the forecast channel was live. I clicked the update button, waited a few minutes and lo! and behold! there it is - weather forecasts on my Wii.I... Read more

The launch of the Wii this month in Australia has seem it take the crown as the best launch of a game console. According to a Nintendo newsletter: "32,901 units sold in the first four daysNintendo is pleased to announce that in the first four days of sale, 32,901 consumers have purchased Wii.This means the Wii... Read more

Yesterday was an awesome day of cricket! I managed to be around to watch Adam Gilchrist hit the 2nd fastest Test Century ever - missing Viv's record by just 1 delivery. And when you consider that the ball that could've brought up the record was deliberately bowled wide (and not called!) it was oh, so close!Still... Read more

For those of you who aren't yet using Firebug (or haven't heard of it) you can have a look at a screencast of it to see what it can do.  Jesse Newland put it together, and even though it's pretty short it shows some very, very cool things. P.S. It's a Quicktime movie. I think it might... Read more

The December 2006 CTP for Sandcastle (the Microsoft alternative to nDoc) is out.  Read about it here. New Features: More HTML tags get passed through. Support for separate member pages Support for Firefox (yay!) Plus a number of bug fixes and a few changes. Read more

You've probably heard about the costs of task switching in terms of breaking concentration, preventing thought flow, and the like.  Typically we think about external interruptions like phone calls, people asking questions, going to meetings, etc but what about all the self-inflicted interruptions like email, IM, SMS messages, etc. Well there's a new thing added to... Read more

Yes, my Wii has arrived!! I stayed up until 2 in the morning playing on it and trying out the various games I've got, and I've brought it to work today for others to play with as well.My initial impression is WOW!! The new controller is truly amazing and a pleasure to use. Nintendo have done... Read more

Microsoft have made available a new theme for XP call Zune. You can get it from here.Have fun :-)P.S. Here's the wallpaper I use with the theme. Read more

Okay, so it might be a bit of a fluff post, but Rob has a "good faith" contract between the software developers of this world and the poor sods who get to manage them - like myself for instance :-)Having been on both sides of the fence, I can agree with pretty much all of the... Read more