Archive for April, 2008

Google’s manifest destiny


April 9th, 2008

Google is the new Microsoft.
Microsoft used to announce mediocre products and people went potty for it. Because Microsoft’s manifest destiny was to dominate the desktop market, it was news when they announced something that took them a little further along that path.
Now Google elicit exactly the same response for exactly the same reason.
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Microsoft myopia


April 8th, 2008

I’ve just installed Visual Studio Pro 2008 and there’s one thing bugging me.
I use the very mature and powerful open source tool called NUnit to write unit tests.
Microsoft came pretty late to the whole unit testing thing. They didn’t provide a unit testing framework until pretty recently by which time a number of high [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 & image upload problem


April 7th, 2008

If you’ve made the upgrade to WordPress 2.5 you may have problems with image uploading. The simple answer is to disable the Bad Behavior plug-in and it works just tickety boo.
Update: Michael Hampton has created a patch to solve the above problem. Upgrade to version 2.0.14 and you’ll be fine.
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Power Round Robin Database progress


April 7th, 2008

I’ve been a little quiet on here for a week or so. I’ve not been sunning myself on some Caribbean beach . Unfortunately I’ve been slaving away creating a .NET round robin database modelled on the famous RRDTool.
The first set of tests are now green as you can see from the image below. The current [...]

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Mid market broadband router follow up


April 1st, 2008

Thanks to Ken @ Ingenity for suggesting the Vyatta open source router. Only question mark is whether it works “out of the box” in the UK? Comes in both software only form and as a pre-built appliance.
Others on the eval list are the DrayTek Vigor 2800 and Firebrick 105.
One major requirement is that it must, [...]

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