Archive for the “General” Category

8 requirements that good backup software needs to fulfil

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I’ve been thinking about backup solutions, and have been trying to find one that fits what I need. I have yet to find one, and this post is the first step in outlining what I need (and hopefully what other people need), with the end goal of building the perfect backup solution.

Wallpaper goodness

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Quick note, I’ve uploaded some hi-res wallpapers on my photoblog site. Right, back to work.

SQL Compact 3.5 Performance and NHibernate

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We’re using SQL Compact 3.5 in a smart client desktop application, talking to it with NHibernate and are experiencing performance problems in a couple of places. In general, we’re very happy with the database, it is most of the time pretty fast, and easy to work with. The fact that it runs within our process [...]

Using Yahoo Pipes to aggregate feeds

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

I’ve got a list of links in the sidebar of this blog. What is not obvious is that this list is an aggregated list of links that come from multiple sources. At the moment, I mark links as interesting from two sources: Delicious Google Reader (shared items) Ideally, I don’t want to have 2 lists [...]

Refracted

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

So I’ve decided to start posting my own photo’s onto a dedicated photo blog, you may have noticed the photos appearing in the sidebar (the wonders of rss!). If you’re interested in photography, you might find it interesting. The blog’s address is http://refracted.co.za/. I’m not going to be posting any more photos on this blog, [...]