CodeCamp Oz

My readify co-hort Mitch Denny (with some assistance from others in the Australian .NET community like Greg Lowe and Andrew Coates) is organizing a Code Camp for the 23rd and 24th of April in Wagga Wagga. Should be a great get-together for the Australian .NET developer community in a simmilar vein to other code camps that have been held. If you have a topic you’d like to speak on don’t forget to get in touch with Mitch. »

HIS Grab-bag

Some random HIS stuff (mostly so I don’t forget them) Calling PL/1 from HIS: (or “it’s define your own wrapper time”) http://support.microsoft.com/?id=183179 SNA Base service causes explorer to hang when viewing list of network connections: If I have no network connectivity and try to get a list of my network connections (so, for example if I wanted to dial up) explorer locks. This seems to be caused by the SNA Base service (which was still set at a status of “starting” half an hour after booting up, and which had written a large number of errors to the event log). »

Something funny from the Java world

Jarwars - Episode III - Revenge of the <T> As master yoda says “tiger leads to generics, generics leads to autoboxing, autoboxing leads to NPE!” »

CodeDom Provider for Managed C++

One of the great things about working with people smarter than you is that you find out about your mistakes quickly. Today I was giving a demo presentation to some of my Readify.Net cohorts on the classes in the System.CodeDom namespace. In my presentation I mentioned that managed C++ does not have a CodeDom implementation. After the presentation one of my colleagues approached me quietly and said “you know what Joseph, I think managed C++ DOES have a CodeDom implementation” and he is absolutely right. »

Google store, Oracle DBAs and leading teams

My third-favorite technology company Google has an-online store. Love those “I’m feeling lucky” boxer shorts and shirts. Somebody I would love to get a blog is Donald Burleson the Redneck Oracle DBA. From the list of books he’s written it looks like he and his crew have some serious Oracle skills. The only other Oracle DBA I know is Chris - certainly not a redneck, who has a band called ScuzzyBus. »

Sun.Clue.Dispose();

It seems that Sun ™’s Crack Legal Team ™ have served Ted Neward ™ with a Cease-and-desist letter regarding his mis-use ™ of the Java ™ trademark on his small Java™ developer community site™. Wow. This would be like the ASP.NET team suing Fritz Onion. »

Is your bug a smoker, or non-smoker?

In the spirit of the daily wtf I wanted to share this little gem with you all. Once upon a time I knew a programmer who was doing some maintenance work on a “classic” ASP issue tracking system his company had written. All of the developers who originally “wrote” [1] the system were long gone. The system apparently had a complicated UI, was quite confusing to use, and had a number of other qirks. Because it sort-of worked management were reluctant to scrap it for something better, and said programmer was charged from time to time with making enhancements to it, and fixing bugs. »

Web Grab-bag

Some interesting links from around the web: CSS Astronaut Eric Meyer has created a CSS + XHTML + JavaScript slideshow system called S5. I checked it in IE6 and Firefox 0.9 (OK, so I’m behind the times) and it worked well. Fritz Onion and others share info on doing ASP.NET development without web projects. Ernie Booth has written a short article on some of the internals of Comega, which I have also been looking into recently. »