December 2004 - Posts

posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:34 AM by Mike Taulty :: 4 Comments

Media Center 2005 Update

I finally finished my Media Center 2005 machine today. I've posted about this before but I've been waiting for a long time to get hold of a TV card.The final specs of my machine are as below; AMD Athlon 64 - the Read More
posted Thursday, December 23, 2004 4:52 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

BizTalk Server Roadmap

Scott Woodgate has posted a link across to the BizTalk Server roadmap document showing where the product is heading for 2006 and beyond. Read More
posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:49 PM by Mike Taulty :: 53 Comments

Halo 2

I've been playing Halo 2 on the Xbox a little and I managed to finish the single player game a while ago - great game, very cinematic in places (although that could be reflection that a lot of big budget films are starting to feel Read More
posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:20 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

IT Jobswatch

I got feedback on my website which pointed me over to this IT Jobswatch web site which tracks job opportunities across different technologies and is really interesting. The site says that it tracks jobs for around 1500 IT skill Read More
posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:26 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

ASus Barebones

New Asus barebones system looks neat Read More
posted Friday, December 17, 2004 8:16 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

The death of the LinkSys WGA54G

I've managed to replace the dreaded LinkSys WGA54G wireless adapter with a US Robotics wireless adapter model 5430. So far, so good. I've managed to re-instate 54Mbps working on my network and I've managed to reinstate a mixed Read More
posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:56 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

MSN Toolbar Beta

I downloaded the beta of the MSN Toolbar Suite today. At the moment I've only tried the desktop search feature but it seems to work very well. The initial indexing process (across the entire hard drive and my email) took quite Read More
posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:12 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Craig Andera on XML Serialization

Interesting post from Craig Andera on how you can get the XML serializer to represent different data types when you don't know at build time what you're actually going to be returning. It feels a little bit like this to me; Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:49 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Putting Code on TV?

This new idea of televising development is really "interesting". I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's "interesting" meaning "good" or "interesting" meaning "weird" ;-) Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 11:15 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Suggestions...

Blimey, just typed a whole bunch of seemingly random phrases into Google Suggest and got seemingly cool results from it.     Pink Cadillac     Web Services     Ford Fiesta     Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:59 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

The .netcpu

Very interesting stuff http://www.dotnetcpu.com/ Picked it up from this article and from Slashdot who've been mentioning it too. Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:53 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Demos from Web Developer Day at Microsoft, Reading

I did a session today around using web services in order to extend functionality of an existing ASP.NET Web Application. In doing so, I took the excellent FotoVision sample in VB.NET and extended it to add some additional web Read More
posted Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:54 PM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Pass-Phrasing

Great post on using pass-phrases rather than pass-words to log in to your PCs. I used to use lines of songs as my passwords a long time ago, mostly because I remembered them better than anything else. I think I'll go back Read More
posted Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:37 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PDC 2005

This is probably a little bit "old" by now but the date of the Professional Developer's Conference for 2005 has been posted and you can find the details here http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc It's very early days Read More
posted Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:29 PM by Mike Taulty :: 4 Comments

SQL Server Integration Servies

I was lucky today to get to sit through an introduction to SQL Server Integration Services by Donald Farmer which was a really good session. You might have heard that Integration Services is the new name for what used to be Read More
posted Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:01 PM by Mike Taulty :: 3 Comments

Oracle and CLR?

Interesting article here - Oracle is putting .NET CLR support into its database in a future version. Not quite clear to me whether that's just for stored procedures or whether it's more extensive than that like SQL Server 2005 Read More
posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:34 PM by Mike Taulty :: 6 Comments

Media Center 2005 and .NET Framework

I just spotted that Media Center 2005 has .NET Framework V1.0.3705 rather than V1.1.4322. Now, I know and trust that installing V1.1 onto that box is going to work but has anyone tried it? ;-) Read More
posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:24 PM by Mike Taulty :: 16 Comments

Updated Bluetooth Remote Control for SmartPhone

I've published the updated version of the "PowerPoint" remote control that I wrote for SmartPhone. Morgan contributed a whole bunch of code to this - in particular, what he's done is to make the actions performed Read More
posted Monday, December 06, 2004 2:22 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

ACL's in .NET 2.0

Nice article in MSDN Magazine about the new ACL support in .NET Framework 2.0 Read More
posted Monday, December 06, 2004 11:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Go away for a couple of days....

I've been away for a few days and came back to see that a lot of things have happened. Firstly, SQL Server 2005 has new bits available to play with if you're an MSDN Subscriber - there's a new Community Tech Preview to download Read More