Finally, I’ve updated the design of this site, to brand-new spanking HTML5, including a fluent layout, that adjusts for larger and smaller screens (it looks great on a phone too!). I created the previous design in 2005, so it was time for a refresh.
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.
Quick note, I’ve uploaded some hi-res wallpapers on my photoblog site. Right, back to work.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
This is a fascinating article: PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of “score” to sort by. The article goes into detail about how all the most [...]
Took this the other day, just a ribbon hanging off the ceiling.
I’ve just noticed a new SARS (South African Revenue Services if you’re not South African!) related scam. The e-mail you receive is worded as follows: Tax Notification After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of ZAR xxxx.xx. Please submit the tax [...]
Since I discovered rss feeds, I have tried many feed readers, but all the applications didn’t work for me, I needed a web-based reader. Why? I need to be able to access it from multiple computers, making it difficult to sync read/unread items. A web app solves this by being accessible from anywhere. I ended [...]