Digitrends

http://www.codezest.com/archive/2008/09/28/development-tools-i-use-amp-recommend.aspx   this is an excellent post. Will add to it in a bit

My latest craze is collecting portable apps. What is portable apps you say? Applications that leave zero footprint on a client pc. Check it out here

Been a while since I blogged. Life kinda gets in the way. Natalie ( my youngest ) been having the HSC so my life been revolving around tuition and being a driver. Lately on the technology front, been playing with Windows Server 2008. I can say that my vista phobia is over. It is what vista should have been like. Currently using it as my ...

I found myself agreeing with this article. I am a windows developer pure and simple but at times windows suck  http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/what-microsoft-could-learn-from-apple.ars

Ever wondered how Windows Vista source code looks? Here it is! http://www.drunkenfairies.com/windows-vista-source-code/

I have reached the point where I am totally disenchanted with the NSW government. Can they do nothing right? First is the disaster that the transport system in Sydney, then the hospital system in shambles, corruption in the councils and now this. We need to be connected everywhere and our backward government doesn't see that. Well I know who I ...

My trusty O2 Atom is a bit long in the tooth, and since I moved to Vodafone from Optus is being acting strangely. Vodafone swears back and blue that it isn't them but i am a bit sus about it. The phone can be on, and shows full network coverage but until you try dialling out, it disconnects every call. And others can't dial in as well, ...

Another one of my interests is Digital Photography. Besides a Nikon D70, which I absolutely love, the fam and I were planning a trip to the land of the long white cloud..aka New Zealand. So I thought I would go look on Ebay to see if there was a video camera that could complement my camera. I been to the shops and had my mind set on a Sony ...

I blogged before about Coderush...however I think I am about to change camps to Jetbrains Resharper. Resharper code analysis and coverage tools are so much better than coderush. Only gripe about it is that it takes over the intellisense functionality of vsstudio. grrrr

I was looking around for an easy to use wiki and i evaluated a few, altassian wiki, flexwiki etc. Being a .Net developer, adherence to the .net framework was important for me, but this will be the first time i would be bending the rules. Mindtouch Deki is actually written in PHP, mysql. Well that wouldn't fit on the server would it? After ...