The Angus Rant

I have had a HTC Touch Cruise for about 6 months now. It is a very nice phone with GPS, turn by turn software, wi-fi, camera, expandable memory and more, and I have been fairly happy with it. The HTC UI certainly masked the underlying Windows Mobile 6...

Pardon me while I rant. This afternoon I was looking at my finances. Not a terribly exciting task, but a task that needs to be done. When I last rebuilt my PC, I had neglected to install my copy of MS Money 2004. This was not a great issue, as I had been...

This morning was the coldest ride I have been on. When I left home at 6:20 AM, the apparent temperature at Archerfield was -1.2 Celsius. As I went through the park to get to Paradise Road, I snapped this picture: And yes, that white stuff is frost! My...

I remember when I was at University and we were taught this new thing called UML that was going to change the world and make all software development predictable and manageable. Like most things that you are taught at University, the teaching is disconnected...

Really good article on Database Modelling . It explains some of the proposed extensions to the UML to cater for Data Models.

I am being slack today and only posting the links HTC Touch Tweaks HTC Touch Cruise Tweaks 2 HTC Touch Cruise Tweaks 3 HTC Touch Cruise Tweaks 4 Vista Security Broken Build your own Gadget Station 5 Best To-Do List Managers DIY Self Watering Garden Get...

Today I got all excited about Inversion of Control after listening to a a .NET Rocks Podcast by James Kovacs on IoC . Trouble is, I was tired as heel, so here are the links that I did not get around to reading (weekend task I suspect) Article on MSDN...

I stumbled across this today while I was trying to figure out who the better carrier/plan is. http://www.mobchoice.com.au/compare-cap-plans-spreadsheet Give it a go - you might be very surprised. I also had a look at the forums of Whirlpool.net and found...

David Cumps has a nice series on Design Patterns Dan Lewis has a post on IE and SharePoint and security - a subject that has been bugging me for ages Ian Cooper has a great post on Test Driven Development A number of links about the Entity Framework vote...

Macs are cool. They look cool. They ooze cool. But they also ooze a price tag that is so not cool. Take for example my Dell XPS 1530. I bought this off of the Dell site 4 months ago. I configured it as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 4GB 667 RAM 320GB...

Tutorial on WC F Ready, Set, Green: My Eight Week Journey to a Greener, Guilt Free Me on treehugger

Well, after a few months of quiet, I am back. Interesting article about Models and Specifications 4 ways to make UAC in VISTA less annoying article on Receive Window Auto Tuning in Vista - turn it off for a suggested performance increase (not that I would...

So, how slack have I been for the last few weeks? Well, not really. I have been scrambling to finish my part of a project before I leave the Unisys fold. Yes, I have finally made a decision and am leaving Unisys for a change of direction. After 8 1/2...

I came across this problem the other day, and I could not find an answer from google (not that that means anything) Anyway, I found a solution - below is an example CommandArgument='<%# String.Concat(Eval("EQUIP_KEY"), "|",...

The project I am onis using an Oracle database as the data store.2 of the fields that we are storing are CLOBS (or Character Large Object). This is posing a few problems, as updating the data is problematic, and you have to jump through some hoops to...