I thought I’d best get in quickly before all the emails start coming in asking “where are the £$*^ING PHOTOS!??!” and get a web album up so that you guys can all see evidence of the amazing time that I’ve had over the last couple of weeks.
I’ve used Picassa and the Google web album feature [...]
Hi all! It’s been a while since I posted last, but for very good reason. I’ve been away since the 17th of Nov sorting out various things, packing up and moving south for a short holiday. The reason - I got married!
After over 6 years of being together Amy and I tied the knot on [...]
I don’t think I’m going to need to say much about the following code, as anyone with even an inkling of the features of the .NET framework would know that it’s a joke. See the nugget(s) of genius below:
[source:csharp]public static void ToStartofCurrDay(ref DateTime aDate)
{
aDate = aDate.Subtract(aDate.TimeOfDay);
}
public static void ToEndofPrevDay(ref DateTime aDate)
{
aDate = aDate.Subtract(aDate.TimeOfDay);
TimeSpan ts = [...]
I’m sure that everyone knew that this was going to happen at some stage. Whether or not they believed it’d happen so quickly is another matter. Either way, it’s official, the new wonderdumpling operating system from Microsoft has been cracked. Aparently the activation and installation of the whole thing has been bypassed, and it’s available [...]
Some overseas boffins have come up with a new way of punching text into a mobile phone, though I’m not sure I like it. This YouTube video shows examples of how they propose to deal with the typing into a phone keypad in a QWERTY-like manner.
I can’t see it catching on, and I really can’t [...]
This would have to be close to the dumbest way of verifying the state of a connection Well, that might not be true, but it’s definitely one of the dumbest ways.
This is a funky snippet of code that was extracted from a system I’m doing some work on at the moment:
[source:csharp]public static bool IsValid(OracleConnection [...]
All too often have I seen comments like this. That’s if I’m lucky enough to see comments at all! I’m quite a big advocate of comments in code. I don’t agree with the age-old philosophy of:
If the code was hard to write, it should be hard to read as well!
I read a cool article this [...]
Some of you might not know about The Wiggles, but those of you who are either Australian or have any connection with an extremely young family member will probably have a fair idea. In short, they’re a collection of dudes who do performances for kiddies, and have managed to make themselves a fortune putting smiles [...]
When Steam first hit the marketplace lots of people thought it wasn’t going to take off - and the bigger companies didn’t want it to. Over time it really gathered momentum. The bugs were being ironed out, the process was working well, and the subscriber count was going through the roof. As more time went [...]
I know for sure that many of the geeks out there on the World Wide Wibbly have the “fun” task of sorting out every possible computer issue for any/all of their family and friends in the cases where they’re not geeks themselves. I am one such geek, and I’ll be honest and say that I [...]
