Daily Archives: Saturday, 23 June, 2007

What I’ve been up to

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

I’ve not posted anything for a while so I thought I’d show of some of my better photos that I have uploaded to Flickr (just to show you what I’ve been up to). These are my ten favourite photos that … Continue reading →

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Things I keep forgetting about FileInfo

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

This is going to sound like a real newbie post. But I keep forgetting this particular bit of information and I keep having to write little throw away applications to find out the answer. FileInfo has a number of properties … Continue reading →

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Normalising the data model

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Sometimes I see on forums someone who is trying to get some SQL statement to wield data in a particular way but the data model is just thwarting their attempts, or if they do get something to work the SQL … Continue reading →

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Creating an informative workspace

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Earlier this evening Agile Scotland ran a presentation by Rachel Davies called Creating an Informative Workspace which I found really interesting. The basic idea is that you permit developers to define their workspace to ensure that communication improves. The “Informative … Continue reading →

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eXtreme Programming in .NET

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

This is a summary of a presentation by Dr. Neil Roodyn for the Scottish Developers that took place in Microsoft’s offices in Edinburgh on the 21st of July, 2005. At the end of the presentation I won a copy of … Continue reading →

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SQL Exception because of a timeout

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

You think it would be easy to find information on exactly what error number a SqlException has when the command timed out. But, it isn’t. MSDN, for all that it is normally an excellent resource, fails to even mention that … Continue reading →

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Technorati Claim Post

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

This post is in order to claim this blog on Technorati.   Technorati Profile

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What’s new in Visual Source Safe 2005?

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

I’ve been looking at the new version of Visual Source Safe as the company I work for is desperately looking for something that isn’t VSS6.0 and isn’t going to cost as much as Team System. So far, initial investigations look … Continue reading →

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Sony DRM Hides Trojan

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Further to my post last week about Sony’s malware disguised as DRM it seems that a trojan is now taking advantage of the Sony malware. From The Register: “This means, that for systems infected by the Sony DRM rootkit technology, … Continue reading →

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To be scammed, or not to be scammed

Posted on Saturday, 23 June, 2007 by Colin Mackay

A little while ago I wrote about the poor security procedures that some banks had in place. The BBC have an article on today’s edition of their news website about tactics scammers use called “How to stay off the suckers … Continue reading →

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