November 2004 - Posts

posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:28 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

AddMemoryPressure in .NET 2.0 CLR

Interesting mini-post on how you can hint the CLR in .NET 2.0 when you have a small managed object holding on to a large unmanaged object. Read More
posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:10 AM by Mike Taulty :: 3 Comments

British Telecom & Business Processes

I got my phone bill from British Telecom last week and I hadn't yet got around to writing a cheque for it and posting it back to them. You'd imagine that their business processes cope with this - people go away on holiday and Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 5:22 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE2.0 Sp2 Pre-Release

Woops - I missed the fact that a WSE 2.0 Sp2 pre-release download is available. Check out the link here Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 5:05 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Wikinews

I hadn't seen this before - the concept of a Wiki is being applied to news journalism - have a look at Wikinews Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 4:48 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PowerPoint Remote Control over Bluetooth Again

I'm feeling a bit guilty because Morgan re-worked this code for remote control from SmartPhone over Bluetooth for me to make it so that it can remote control any application (my version just did PowerPoint) and I haven't had Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 4:46 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Presentation Library?

I've been thinking about slide-decks and demos. I spend a lot of time putting together talks to deliver at various events. In doing that I tend to steal bits and pieces of slideware and demos from other places but, ultimately, Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 4:40 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

VBUG Coventry & SQL Server 2005

I did a talk for VBUG this evening in Coventry around SQL Server 2005 for developers which was a lot of fun. It was hosted at the Coventry Flying Club which turned out to be a fine venue for a talk like this. We had around 40 Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 4:33 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

On BlogStats

I've been looking at my blog stats today. This is the graph below of activity for this calendar year; I've no real idea as to whether these are accurate or not - this is what my blog hoster reports and, from time to time I Read More
posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 4:31 PM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

WSE and Service Broker?

I wonder whether anyone has written a transport for WSE messages over SQL Server Service Broker? Seems like an obvious sample although framework versions might cause a headache as you can't expect WSE to work on Whidbey right now. Read More
posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 6:46 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Media Player

I'd like the song rating system in Media Player to allow 6 star-songs :-) Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 8:08 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

IBM's new TPC-C figure

Interesting article on the latest top entry in the TPC war. http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12417 The figures are over here http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp?resulttype=all - it is fairly Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:02 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Follow up on WinFX Community Preview

Following up on my post around the new WinFX Community Tech Preview for Avalon - I pulled this down (it's a 255MB download and it comes as an ISO image ready for burning to CD). I took a previous VPC that I have SQL Server 2005 Read More
posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Microsoft UK Post Events Site

The most common question I hear at our Microsoft developer events in the UK is; Where can I get hold of your slide-decks after this session? Now, this is clearly terrible communication on our part but we keep on doing it Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 9:42 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Avalon Community Technology Preview

There's some new WinFX bits been posted up to the MSDN web site today for MSDN Subscribers to download. It's a "Community Technology Preview" and it includes an updated version of the Avalon presentation system targetted Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:26 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Alienware Small Form Factor

Alienware have launched a Small Form Factor PC. It looks remarkably similar to this PC from Shuttle to me in terms of its case design. Meanwhile, Shuttle's gone and launched the SB86i which looks really nice. The Alienware Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:17 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

.NET Powered Smart Cards

Wow - .NET powered smart cards Read More
posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:03 PM by Mike Taulty :: 31 Comments

SmartPhone/Bluetooth Remote Control for PowerPoint

I've been writing some code. A week or two ago I bought a Bluetooth dongle for the bargain price of £12 or so in order that I could use my E200 SmartPhone as a modem from my laptop over Bluetooth in those rare circumstances Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 9:02 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Registration-Free COM Components

I was doing a talk last evening and randomly mentioned that it's possible to deploy COM components without actually registering their details in the registry for certain platforms (Windows XP and above). I thought that this would Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 7:44 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Dell and AMD?

Wow - Dell to go with AMD? Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 5:09 AM by Mike Taulty :: 3 Comments

Xmas comes early

Today's been like Christmas in our house. I got a nice new, shiny wireless mouse which seems to work very well (i.e. set up and working in less than 2 mins which is what I want). Then I got my delivery of Halo 2. I haven't Read More
posted Friday, November 12, 2004 5:04 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Aaron on SO and BizTalk Server

This posting by Aaron is just spot on for me - go have a read. I did quite a bit of work with BizTalk Server 2004 earlier in the year (and have been working with it back through previous incarnations of 2000 and 2002 versions) Read More
posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:33 AM by Mike Taulty :: 3 Comments

DVD, DivX, Media Center, Stuff

I've been spending some time trying to get some DVD movies over to my Media Center PC so that I can watch them with a single button click rather than go hunting for the media for them (yes, I know, this is the height of laziness). Read More
posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:38 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

The Project PC

Wow - that's a lot of PC to run Project :-) Read More
posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:10 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Slashdot links

Slashdot has some really interesting links to follow today. Firstly, there's the video blog that Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is keeping of his new King Kong remake - the link is here http://www.kongisking.net/kong2005/proddiary. Read More
posted Monday, November 08, 2004 10:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

QRIO the Robot

Apparently Sony are working on a "humanoid" version of their AIBO dog-robot and he's called QRIO. I came across this in a magazine recently and just had a quick look on their web-site to see what they're up to. There's Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:03 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Media Center 2005 - Building a PC

I got some feedback to a previous post around Windows Media Center Edition 2005 and so I thought I'd highlight something that's changed with 2005. You don't need to go out and buy a pre-configured PC from a hardware vendor Read More
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 2:05 AM by Mike Taulty :: 139 Comments

Dell Inspiron 5150 Fixed!

I've had my Dell Inspiron 5150 fixed in that Dell have replaced the motherboard on it. I'm now in the process of re-installing the OS on the machine when I come across a BIOS update on the Dell web-site; "Corrects Inspiron Read More