The Inquirer has posted up some info on the Microsoft Vista licence restrictions and boy does it sound awful. Not only will it cost you an arm and a leg to buy it, you’ll probably have to upgrade to get it to run, and after you’ve upgraded you’ll probably never be allowed to upgrade again [...]
I had a read of Eastabrook’s blog recently (see a link in the Blogroll) and noticed that he posted about an interesting link that he found. The link, entitled Flight Tracking in 3D, shows details of a few downloads that you can grab for Google Earth which actually show the current locations of flights [...]
Another quick note today (it’s late, and I need to sleep :)), and again it’s VIM related. The dude that made ViEmu that I mentioned a couple of days back has come up with another plugin - this time for SQL Server 2005 Managment Studio. It weighs in at a hefty USD$99.95 which, in [...]
After all my ranting and raving on what I think would be awesome to have as an IDE, I somehow stumbled across exactly what I was trying to describe. ViEmu looks to be the perfect combination of VIM and Visual Studio.
Well, I did get very excited when I saw it and so I downloaded and [...]
I can no longer resist the temptation to talk about DRM (at least in part) after the issues that I faced over the weekend. I know I’m not the only one that has experienced the pain that I’m about to describe, and I’m pretty pissed off about it.
I’m going to be getting married pretty soon, [...]
One of the things that I think every web developer on the planet is sick of doing is building CRUD methods for their applications. It’s the kind of thing that we seem to do as developers over and over again despite the fact that this task is essentially monkey work.
There have been quite a few [...]
I’ve been a gamer for a very long time. My interest in games is what launched my programming career, and as a young kid I used to spend hours trying to figure out how those games worked on my Commodore Vic 20. Peeking and Poking was as far as I got in those days, but [...]
Computer failures. We’ve all been bitten by them, and I’m pretty sure we’ll all be bitten by them again. Good quality HDD storage is becoming more common, but despite the advances in technology, our drives still only have a reliable lifetime of a few years. Power supplies are becoming more solid, but they still blow [...]
Have the days of writing code in VIM ended? Is Emacs ready to be put to bed? Are we destined to spend the rest of our development lives heads-down in a bloated and expensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?
IMHO, this argument is very much a Linux vs Windows style argument.
To those long term VIM and [...]
I was hoping to find a little more time this evening to write up some thoughts about Enterprise Application Development but that’s going to have to wait since it’s getting late and I have to be up early in the morning.
So for now, I think all of you would enjoy taking a peek at something [...]
