“I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows” Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows | The Register Obviously all that flapping up and down screaming “Developers, developers, developers, developers” (see after the break) has starved Steve Ballmer of critical oxygen supply to his brain of late.… Continue reading Having a Ballmer
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Test Driven Documentation
Esendex fully embraces the idea of test-driven development (TDD), something I was introduced to during my time at Fujitsu-Siemens Computers. Microsoft have just released a new MSDN site called the Tester Center Home. Whilst I’m sure its got some useful information on it, the matter-of-fact MSDN style doesn’t invite me to delve into it to… Continue reading Test Driven Documentation
Joost a minute
With the news today that the Skype founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have quit Skype as eBay decide they’ve paid too much for the company, the future of the online telephony service is feeling a bit more shaky. Skype for all it has done for introducing IP based telephony to the masses is another… Continue reading Joost a minute
Wave goodbye to your cash?
With Visa payWave, you simply wave your Visa card in front of a secure reader, and you’re on your way. Most of the time, a signature is not required for purchases under $25, plus, you retain control of the card during the transaction, which reduces the risk of fraud. Visa USA | Personal | Visa… Continue reading Wave goodbye to your cash?
Is ploughing like software development?
“Software is still a young endeavor. At the birth of agriculture the excitement must have been similar, with the same sense of enormous potential.”—Joe Berkovitz Adobe – Flex Developer Center I agree with people who say “code is poetry” to illustrate the fact that there are elegant ways of proving software solutions to problems. I’m… Continue reading Is ploughing like software development?
Episerver and Page Languages
We’ve been doing some work recently using EpiServer, extending it to fit our needs, to support our new website look which is one of many new features coming soon. Having website content in more than one language reflects the international coverage that Esendex has. We ran into a bug today which initially wasn’t easy to… Continue reading Episerver and Page Languages
Of spam and things…
It’s been a few times this last year that I’ve been the victim of a domain spam attack. Sending email appearing to be someone else isn’t a difficult thing to achieve. Yet when someone takes one of your domains and sends spam, well I was going to say on my behalf but I never asked… Continue reading Of spam and things…
Checking it out
I have a feeling that a lot of small to medium development operations will still be using Microsoft‘s Visual SourceSafe to manage their central code-base despite its limitations. Given that Microsoft have since addressed this hole in their development offerings with the excellent Team Foundation Server which offers a seamless experience within Visual Studio 2005… Continue reading Checking it out
Have you got the Bug?
Being involved in web development work, I have to have a wide range of browsers installed to make sure what I’m creating is accessible to as many people as possible. Whilst I still have a soft-spot for Opera, it is without a doubt that Firefox is the Swiss Army Knife of all browsers. The ability… Continue reading Have you got the Bug?
A long road but definitely worth it
Today marks the end of my undergraduate studies as I was formally presented with my First Class degree certificate at the graduation ceremony in Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall. With hundreds of other graduands, I collected my award shaking the hand of the Vice-Chancellor in a very well organised ceremony which was both a solemn celebration… Continue reading A long road but definitely worth it