February 2004 - Posts

posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 11:33 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Infernal Affairs

Went to see the film Infernal Affairs on Saturday night and really enjoyed it - quite a stylish Cop thriller set in Hong Kong. Interesting to me primarily because it didn't take the Hollywood approach and just have lots of car chases, foot chases Read More
posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:18 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

MSDN has an article on looking inside the user mode scheduler (UMS) of SQL

Wow, I never thought I'd see an article like this up on MSDN - it's a pretty detailed and very interesting (in the usual tragic, geeky kind of way) discussion of some of the UMS scheduling activities that go on inside SQL Server.   Read More
posted Monday, February 23, 2004 10:56 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Clemens Vasters on Services

Clemens Vasters has a nice definition of services on his blog - here Read More
posted Monday, February 23, 2004 10:50 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WS-Eventing

So, I had a major sit down with a lot of WS- specs quite a lot of months ago and I find them really hard to read. The first reason for that is that I tend to read documents on pieces of paper and WS- specs (if you print them by default) have a lot Read More
posted Monday, February 23, 2004 8:59 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Now that really is pen-based computing!

Interesting story here on the P-ISM prototype that NEC has - very interesting and I'm always fascinated whenever this keyboard technology from Canesta is on display. Read More
posted Friday, February 20, 2004 4:06 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Cringely on .NET

So, it seems to me that the .NET platform is a great leap forward in terms of security. There are whole aspects of the platform (verifiably type-safe code, code access security, managed memory model etc) that aim to irradicate whole classes of security Read More
posted Friday, February 20, 2004 3:01 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Some Dev Resources

I'm using my blog as a notepad here and blogging some great looking dev resources that I came across today; MSDN Architecture Strategy Series Relaunched MSDN Developer Security Webcast Week WS-Discovery on MSDN Lots of things to watch and read. Read More
posted Friday, February 20, 2004 2:52 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

More on education

to follow up on what I was saying yesterday about Universities I heard an interesting use of a phrase "train versus think" today applied to Computer Science teaching in Universities with the view being that companies would prefer students that had been Read More
posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:48 AM by Mike Taulty :: 5 Comments

Northface University

I was browsing across Aaraon Skonnard's site doing a bit of XML web services research (Aaron, as always, had got there first - I've seen him talk quite a few times and read his books and he puts out really good information). Anyway, whilst I'm there Read More
posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:59 PM by Mike Taulty :: 5 Comments

Windows XP, Belkin, Wireless

So, we've moved to a new house and one of my first priorities is to get myself fully ADSL connected and wireless enabled. It took around 3 weeks for British Telecom to get me my ADSL and I picked up my wireless router from work yesterday and I've been Read More
posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:16 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Quiet

I'm quiet on the blogging front because I'm spending potential blogging time trying to write a blogging client for myself - that's a bit of a "chicken and egg" situation but there you go :-) However, I thought I'd stick my head above the parapet to blog Read More
posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Test Entry

Playing around with writing some Rss reading software and needed a new post to test it against to see if it can "remember" where it's up to in a particular news feed. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:09 AM by Mike Taulty :: 7 Comments

Burning DVD's with Nero 6

So, I've been pursuing a support case with Ahead software over a bug I found in Nero 6 where the program just hangs with a busy cursor if you add an awful lot of files to it (but not more than would fit on a DVD). This is prior to the DVD burning itself, Read More
posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 8:17 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Blogging down

My copy of Newsgator has expired and this has had a serious impact on the amount of blogging I've been doing. I've also been moving house which has had a bit of an impact as well but less than the expiration of Newsgator which is interesting in itself. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:55 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Updated my socket adapter sample for BizTalk 2004

Provided an updated sample here - this one moves across to asynchronous work rather than synchronous work. Error handling isn't really beefed up very much though I'm afraid. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:52 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Keith Brown's new book's coming along

Spotted this link over to Keith Brown's book - haven't looked at his site for ages and the material's grown around 5 fold since the last time I was there. The site is here Read More
posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:48 AM by Mike Taulty :: 4 Comments

64-bit Windows XP trial for AMD

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/downloads/upgrade.asp Read More
posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

The viral nature of WinZip 9.0 :-)

I met one person quite a few months ago that was using WinZip 9.0 beta (http://www.winzip.com) and, since that experience, I've had to move across to that version lock-stock and barrel because I put it onto my box in order to deal with that one person's Read More
posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:27 AM by Mike Taulty :: 6 Comments

BizTalk Server 2004 & Socket Adapters

I started writing a small sample adapter for BizTalk 2004 to talk plain old TCP sockets. I've posted the sample here - feel free to take it and experiment with it but it's completely without any kind of implied warranty or rights. At this point Read More
posted Monday, February 02, 2004 8:56 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Xbox V.Next

There's a lot of stories around the web today around a "leak" of the next Xbox specs. The more detailed one is here http://www.teamxbox.com/news.php?id=5388 It's an interesting read suggesting that the box might run on 3 "hyper-threaded" PowerPC processors Read More