Tech Stuff
Linear Tape-Open (LTO) and LTFS
Submitted on Oct 04, 2010, 11:32 p.m.
I thought this was worth breaking my tech blog silence for. I’ve been doing some research on storage options for a media company who are in desperate need of an easy-to-use, safe and large...Problem Syncing iTunes 9.1 with Outlook 2007 Contacts and Calendar
Submitted on Apr 25, 2010, 9:32 a.m.
I wouldn’t normally post a rant article on my blog – but iTunes – grrrrr. I really wish I wasn’t forced to use iTunes to sync my Outlook Contacts and Calendar with my iPhone 3GS. For the last few...Synchronising Sheep (Using LINQ)
Submitted on Apr 14, 2010, 6:11 a.m.
LINQ to Objects in C# has been around for a while now – and yet I’m regularly amazed at how easy LINQ has made it to perform what would have previously been fairly tedious tasks (well unless you...Google Chrome Hidden Gems
Submitted on Feb 22, 2010, 7:43 a.m.
For a while now I’ve been jumping between IE8, Firefox, and Google Chrome. The browser that’s pulling me in – is definitely Chrome. For starters it’s fast. I mean really fast – even after a solid...Google Custom Search Engine and Google Site Search In 30 Seconds
Submitted on Nov 23, 2009, 11:11 a.m.
A project I’ve been working on recently required a search feature. After a quick look around I thought I’d give a hosted solution a try – using Google Site Search. After almost a full day of...We Come to Bury IE6
Submitted on Nov 04, 2009, 6:15 a.m.
When the desired death of a browser makes it into a full-page editorial of IEEE Spectrum – you know that the issue is finally starting to gain some traction. The tech blogosphere communities have...Nikon ViewNX Broken on Windows 7
Submitted on Oct 24, 2009, 5:15 a.m.
I posted my views earlier on Nikon software – and I’m now pretty sure that Nikon ViewNX is broken on Windows 7. Below is a link to the native Process Monitor log file – filtered for ViewNX after a...Formal Versus Agile Methodologies
Submitted on Sep 25, 2009, 4:28 p.m.
I’ve been an IEEE and Computer Society member for a couple of years now. Trying to keep up with the IEEE publications along with my RSS Reader and tech news has been a challenge – so I’m sure I’ve...Projects
Submitted on Sep 01, 2009, 3:09 p.m.
I’m pretty sure that anyone who actually likes to ‘make stuff’ and has been a programmer at least once in their life – has got a short list of pet projects that he/she has started – and maybe even...Get XElement Value with Default
Submitted on Aug 01, 2009, 6:24 p.m.
Thanks to this post at .Net Dojo, here’s a utility method for getting a safe value from an XElement, returning a default value if the element was not found. public static T...