Personally, I love Windows Live Writer.  Being able to write blog entries on the train is great, editing in your web logs styles is cool and it's also a neat way of capturing notes during meetings. Over the last few months there have been a number of occassions where the blogger beta changes have broken the live... Read more

There's a nagging issue I have with VS2005 and that's the inability to use code snippets in aspx and ascx pages. It works in XML files and in the codebehind files, but not in HTML pages.When you've got standard code that you keep repeating using a snippet would make plenty of sense. There is an alternative... Read more

There's a cool little blog entry I stumbled across recently about how companies got their name. Here's a few of the more interetsing one'sApache - its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'a patchy' serverApple - for the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for... Read more

Looks like it's the time of year when new versions of products start getting wrapped up.Office 2007 has made it to RTM stage. Read the blog post here. It will be available to volume licensing customers by the end of the year and in retail stores in early 2007 and I'm planning on upgrading everyone shortly... Read more

I've pre-ordered my Wii now (and a copy of Zelda), but I also just ran across video's of first timers playing with it. Quite a laugh - I can now see just how silly I might be looking soon :-) but at least I'll be having fun.P.S. The Zelda sword fighting and the tennis & bowling... Read more

I've posted previously about GooTube and the litigation potential. We'll it's apparently started - but this is kinda left field and not at all what I expected.YouTube is not being sued for copyright infringement, but because their name is so similar to a manufacturing company's name and the company has had to keep moving their web... Read more

Well it took a little longer than expected but I'm finally putting down my thoughts on last weeks presentation.Firstly, from my perspective things went very well. When you consider that I actually presented at 5:30 PM after a long day for the delegates, things went very, very well. I got the message across, kept people awake... Read more

I'm off to Singapore tomorrow to present at an industry forum with a colleague.There'll be around 100-120 people attending and I get to speak in front of them all. As you would expect, I'll be taking a powerpoint presentation with me, but I'm leaving those sleep inducing bullet points and eye cluttering corporate branded master slides... Read more

As most of you would know SSL is a method for encrypting data in transmission between sites and SSL certificates are used to prove to people that your web site is who you say it is. Unfortunately people assume that data transferred to/from an SSL site (you know - the ones using https) is not only... Read more

I wrote about GooTube (the term coined for the Google & YouTube merger) a little while back and how I didn't really "get it" from a corporate perspective.The Sydney Morning Herald had an article just recently about the same subject, but from a different perspective that I hadn't considered. Basically they say that Google's attitude is... Read more

Well, it's broken again - very frustrating.The blogger beta seems to have changed something that stops windows live writer from connecting to the site. I've tried posting, listing and even re-adding the blog but I just keep getting an error telling me I can't connect to the remote site.I guess it's wait a little bit and... Read more

Some time ago I posted about how I completely screwed up the introduction of Scrum into my organisation. I talked about the problems I had trying to do it piecemeal and some of the mistakes I made.Well, I'm happy to say that since I went back to the drawing board 9 months ago and started again... Read more

Well, I just got home and checked the snail-mail and I had a nice little surprise from Google. I now have a little cheque from Google AdSense for A$137.75.For those of you who have clicked through the ads on this site - thankyou. For those of you who hate them - sorry (but at least this... Read more

The good folks over at Creating Passionate Users have posted a nice article with tips on how to put together a presentation that doesn't drive people quickly and completely into snooze mode in the first 10 minutes.Well worth a read in full, but some of the key points that made me notice were the things I... Read more

Yes, it's true! You can get it from Microsoft's IE page. Have fun :-)P.S. It's the English only release for now.Looks like Firefox 2 isn't far away either. It's at RC3 and not far off it's RTM release. Read more

OK, so he's a wierd looking chap, but he knows what he's talking about.The Braidy Tester has a little blog post about the mentality a tester must have.Guess what - it's not just about proving something doesn't crash, but also about making sure it's good for the customer.Thinking about the customer doesn't just apply to testers... Read more

I'm sure you've heard that a web site should be designed for the lowest common denominator,. That way you maximise the potential audience that can view your site easily.Of course 14 inch monitors died out years ago along with Windows95 so designing for 640x480 is silly. But 15 inch screens (800x600) are almost impossible to buy... Read more

I don't normally make comments on general happenings in the industry, especially negative ones, but I can't help myself on this.OK, so everyone knows that Google went and paid more than the GDP of some small nations for YouTube. The question I'm still asking myself some days later is why?I mean, seriously, where's the payback? How... Read more

here's an interesting little article over at ZDNet listing 10 critical flaws of doomed employees.Read the article for the description of each item, but here's my take on the 10 flaws and what you should do about it (if the shoe fits, that is)...Failing to have a life planThere's a claasic little saying - "Without a... Read more

At long last! PROPER search for Internet Explorer - by making it work just like Firefox does :-).Download the inline search utility and get happy.Here's a few shots:Before....And after.... Read more