Nick Hodge, nickhodge.com, Professional Geek, Microsoft

Noel Volk

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:04:32 PDT

The Headmaster for my last years at Immanuel College recently passed on from a short illness. (previous references here and here)

Contrary to popular memes, I have nothing but fond memories of Mr Volk, or Noel as he preferred I called him in 2005.

Mr Volk was one of those highly influential people in my life. He was one of a small handful of people made an impact on my persona, from an intellectual perspective. A learned man, he daily demonstrated that geeky people mattered in the world. A great man.

Ave, Mr Volk. Noel.

Thoughts are with the Volk family.

(thanks Mum for the sad info)

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Strange Days in October. aka I Wish it were a Wednesday Already.

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:50:47 PDT

Head spins, I cannot safely drive a motor vehicle, forklift or other like heavy machinery. I’ll blog my day as a set of mutable strings (rather than microblog / twitter immutable strings)
Adobe person says some random stuff about Flash on the iPhone, the world goes mad and I wonder how long said employee remains employed before he gets a stern talking-to from Adobe legal.
New Home Office Chair thanks to @mrsnickhodge and ikea
startup General Melchett, XPS1330, MacBookPro
Update MacBook Pro’s MacOS X 10.5.x and MacOffice. twice. Decide to swap Vista x32 with Linux for Edge of the Web as I need to show off some Mono/cross platform CLR/DLR stuff. Along with other “secret stuff #2”
Oh, finalists announced for AIWA / WA Web Awards. No other states organise a community (not crowd) like WA in a @mpesce sense.
look at and install secret stuff #1, secret stuff #2 and secret stuff #3. Ask about secret stuff #4 and register for secret stuff #5. Dog fooding is fun. Keeping it all a secret until the right date is tough. This is definitely not your father’s Microsoft.
Send emails about Steveb in Australia and twitter.
But more gigs from internode, just in case I run out downloading stuff through the month.
Wishing I was in Seattle so I could BrickCon/Geekout with the Arrigonauts. Way better than a Renaissance Faire.
80s music in the background. I now own the license for 1204 tracks.
Liam passed his L-plates this morning. There goes one of the cars.
Successfully msbuild IronPython 2.0 Build from Codeplex from sources using Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 rather than Visual Studio 2008.
Noodle in Photoshop. The creation of “polaroid” style pictures is so naff and easy.
Delete Bootcamp Vista partition, copy down openSUSE 11.0 DVD ISO onto Mac. See how this install goes… if al all…
F#. I actually fell asleep thinking “having x and y, let them be a function of x * y”. Functional languages for the win. Oh, and a quick one-liner post generates 50% more traffic than an IronRuby post.
Listening to The Beach Boys, stereo version of Pet Sounds.
Crikey is in. Time for a cuppa and 50% of my daily allocation of biscuits. “Walnuts [McCain] and the Warrior Princess” LOL. Beware the Ides of October/Surprise. Giuliani as late substitution VP?
Screens from left to right. MacBook Pro, installing OpenSUSE. Middle: RDP into a RAS’d Vista x64 on Dell XPS running Apple iTunes and Outlook 2007. Right: Quadcore running development stuff and LiveWriter.
OpenSUSE not happy at GRUB… hmmm, that’s going to be interesting. Oh, search comes to the rescue. Opting to De-bootcamp the MacBook Pro and install into an image file.
Can build IronRuby using the rake command.
OpenSUSE install now much faster. KDE vs. Gnome. Why does that freakin’ matter. Cmon Linux people. Working, file Mac away for another week. Shower time to wash that Mac and Linux outta my hair

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Where to Start With F#

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:56:00 PDT

Robert Pickering, the author of âFoundations of F#â hosts an informative wiki; an excellent place to start.

Microsoft, Open Source and IronRuby

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:02:29 PDT

John Lam is interviewed by James Turner at OSCON 2008.

To understand the interface between Microsoft and Open source, this is an excellent overview. With some Ruby stuff duck-typed in there, too

Free Microsoft Software and Online Services

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:07:40 PDT

As heard from This Week on Channel 9, here is a list of Free software and online Services.

The above list is “free as in beer”

Microsoft, and third party coders, have a whole bunch of cool bits and pieces over on Codeplex.com – which now supports SVN. C’mon gitsupport

Codeplex projects I follow:

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Generation X is Stuck in the 1980s

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:01:08 PDT

Generation X, the generation I am a part of, grew up in a world of imminent nuclear disaster and high unemployment.

The jobs we wanted were filled with the vast hordes of babyboomers: still in the workforce, protected by strict employment laws.

Generation Y, the topic of many ‘social networking’ [eyeballs, and therefore marketing-types] are entering a world were jobs are more plentiful; and will continue to choose their own jobs.

A downside is a tax burden they will have keeping the older generation

There are many social impacts with these changes.

One concern us Generation Xers have with online personas and profiles is the impact of potential negative pictures and posts being used by potential employers. In the future, the power will lie in the hands of the employees.

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Who woulda thunk?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:19:36 PDT

My first chunk of heavy code on MSDN (yes, that MSDN!!) is a whole lotta PHP to SQLServer. Microsoft, and the world, is a funny old place.

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SQL Server Driver for PHP: Last Inserted Row ID

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:56:39 PDT

After a mysql_query with an INSERT statement, a quick call to mysql_insert_id provides the ID of the last inserted row.

$lastRow = mysql_insert_id($link);

How do you accomplish the same with the SQL Server Driver for PHP?

In this extended example, itâs a simple matter of adding some extra SQL to the INSERT statement, and popping the result from the query.

<?php function lastInsertId($queryID) { sqlsrv_next_result($queryID); sqlsrv_fetch($queryID); return sqlsrv_get_field($queryID, 0); } $serverName = '.\SQLEXPRESS'; $connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"database" ); /* Connect using Windows Authentication. */ $conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo ); if( $conn === false ) { echo "Unable to connect.</br>"; die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true)); } /* Define the Transact-SQL query. Use question marks as parameter placeholders. */ $insertSQL = "INSERT INTO table (message, fromuser) VALUES (? , ?) "; /* Initialize $message and $from */ $message = "Please call me"; $fromuser = "Nick Hodge"; /* special Transact-SQL addition to the SQL insert statement. It will return the last insert ID */ $insertSQL .= "; SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() AS IDENTITY_COLUMN_NAME"; /* Execute the statement with the specified parameter values. */ $stmt1 = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $insertSQL, array($message, $fromuser)); if( $stmt1 === false ) { echo "Could not retrieve last inserted row ID.</br>"; die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true)); } echo "The last inserted row ID is ".lastInsertId($stmt1); ?>

The magic happens in the addition of $insertSQL .= "; SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() AS IDENTITY_COLUMN_NAME"; appended to the INSERT query.

Also note the use of a parameterized query. To reduce the risk of SQL injection nastiness, this nifty query does all the heavy lifting.

SQL Server Driver PHP commands compared with MySQL PHP commands

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:20:01 PDT

Over the years I have used the inbuilt PHP drivers for MySQL. The best mechanism for mapping the two methods is a simple table laying out a comparison between the two systems.

Note this is not a SQLServer vs. MySQL argument, just for information and reference.

As the SQLServer drivers change, I will update this page.

Note:

sqlsrv_client_info( )

DriverDllName: SQLNCLI.DLL DriverODBCVer: 03.52 DriverVer: 09.00.3042 ExtensionVer: 1.0.1015.0

Description	SQLServer Driver for PHP	MySQL Functions
Begins a transaction	sqlsrv_begin_transaction( resource $conn )	START TRANSACTION, BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK can be executed as statements in mysql_query
Cancels a statement; discards any pending results for the statement	sqlsrv_cancel( resource $stmt )	-
Provides information about the client	sqlsrv_client_info( resource $conn )	mysql_get_client_info ( void )
Closes a connection. Frees all resources associated with the connection	sqlsrv_close( resource $conn )	mysql_close ([ resource $link_identifier ] )
Commits a transaction	sqlsrv_commit( resource $conn )	START TRANSACTION, BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK can be executed as statements in mysql_query
Changes error handling and logging configurations	sqlsrv_configure( string $setting, int $value )	-
Creates and opens a connection	sqlsrv_connect( string $serverName [, array $connectionInfo )	mysql_connect ([ string $server [, string $username [, string $password [, bool $new_link [, int $client_flags ]]]]] )
Returns error and/or warning information about the last operation	sqlsrv_errors( [int $errosAndOrWarnings] )	mysql_errno ([ resource $link_identifier ] ) mysql_error ([ resource $link_identifier ] )
Executes a prepared statement with sqlsrv_prepare	sqlsrv_execute( resource $stmt )	-
Makes the next row of data available for reading	sqlsrv_fetch( resource $stmt )	-
Retrieves the next row of data as a numerically indexed array, an associative array, or both	sqlsrv_fetch_array( resource $stmt [, int $fetchType] )	mysql_fetch_array ( resource $result [, int $result_type ] )
Retrieves the next row of data as an object	sqlsrv_fetch_object( resource $stmt [, string $className] )	mysql_fetch_object ( resource $result [, string $class_name [, array $params ]] )
Returns field metadata	sqlsrv_field_metadata( resource $stmt )	See mysql_field_type ( resource $result , int $field_offset ) specifically the Example and mysql_fetch_field ( resource $result [, int $field_offset ] )
Closes a statement. Frees all resources associated with the statement	sqlsrv_free_stmt( resource $stmt )	mysql_free_result ( resource $result )
Returns the value of the specified configuration setting	sqlsrv_get_config( string $setting )	mysql_get_client_info ( void )
Retrieves a field in the current row by index. The PHP return type can be specified	sqlsrv_get_field( resource $stmt, int $fieldIndex [, int $getAsType] )	similar to mysql_result ( resource $result , int $row [, mixed $field ] )
Makes the next result available for processing	sqlsrv_next_result( resource $stmt )	-
Retrieves the number of fields in an active result set	sqlsrv_num_fields( resource $stmt )	mysql_num_fields ( resource $result )
Prepares a Transact-SQL query without executing it. Implicitly binds parameters, executed with sqlsrv_execute	sqlsrv_prepare( resource $conn, string $tsql[ ,array $params[, array $options]] )	-
Prepares and executes a Transact-SQL query.	sqlsrv_query( resource $conn, string $tsql[ , array $params[, array $options]] )	mysql_query ( string $query [, resource $link_identifier ] )
Rolls back a transaction.	sqlsrv_rollback( resource $conn )	START TRANSACTION, BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK can be executed as statements in mysql_query
Returns the number of modified rows.	sqlsrv_rows_affected( resource $stmt )	mysql_affected_rows ([ resource $link_identifier ] )
Sends up to eight kilobytes (8 KB) of data to the server with each call to the function.	sqlsrv_send_stream_data( resource $stmt )	-
Provides information about the server.	sqlsrv_server_info( resource $conn )	mysql_get_server_info ([ resource $link_identifier ] )

AIMIA Presentation: Web 3.0 and Visualisation

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:08:44 PDT

1000 Words

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1000 Words

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from: nickhodge 2 weeks ago

Visualisation and the future of the web

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Codeplex now supports SVN

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:19:24 PDT

Woohoo! Codeplex now supports SVN.

As an SVN user (via TortoiseSVN) and follower of a few Codeplex projects: this makes scripting life much easier!

(via @john_lam)

How would you answer this question

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:21:30 PDT

How would you answer this question?

Which of these terms is not used to describe the speed of data transmission between computers?

Baud rate
Cycles per second
Bits per second
Bytes per second

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79314

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:50:56 PDT

Slashdot.org is the parent of blogs, the voice of open source and a community of interesting people.

I have been a lurker since 1996. It is rather a surprise to open source people when I tell them my ID is less than 100,000.

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Vista as my PHP Developer Workstation

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:30:00 PDT

Prior to joining Microsoft, I always setup my Windows laptop as a PHP/Apache development workstation. Having created my own content management system in PHP (and who hasnât!) â having a remote development copy is critical.

Over the last few weeks, I have installed the following onto my Vista Ultimate 64-bit laptop and home workstation:

install IIS7 web server, with the CGI support (note: a version of IIS7 supplied with Vista SP1)
Install Thread-safe PHP from http://windows.php.net/downloads.php
Using the IIS Manager, and module remap .php extensions to the
Install php_sqlsrv~~_ts~~.dll which is a part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP, modify the php.ini to launch/activate the extension [see comments below]
The following change in the php.ini is also important in an IIS installation

; Set to 1 if running under IIS. Default is zero.
; fastcgi.impersonate = 1;
Restart the IIS
Reading the http://forums.iis.net/ I also updated FastCGI (fixes REQUEST_URI)

Development Environments

Everyone has their favourite development environment. I do have Notepad++ installed, and often just resort to Notepad. As I am from Microsoft, I have access to Visual Studio. Searching out for a Visual Studio plugin: I am currently trialling vs.php (Visual Studio PHP; http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php)

First Irons in the Fire

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:35:12 PDT

Downloaded from source and compiled.

IronRuby seems pretty self-contained (ie: all the Libs + gems) come along

IronPython: I need to find out how to point it at my cPython install

Can do simple .pyw to IronPythonWindows, including a call to .NET Windows.Forms

Off we go!

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C# REPL for Mono

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:39:37 PDT

There is something cute about REPL with C#

Slides from Sydney PHP User Group

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:03:47 PDT

Microsoft, PHP and IIS7

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Microsoft, PHP and IIS7

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Presented to the Sydney PHP User Group, 4th September 2008

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Daylight Savings

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:46:09 PDT

Microsoft customer? Read this.

As Mike Seyfang would say: been there, done that. And it should just work(tm)

The last thing we want is the cows fading in the sun due to the daylight savings.

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MySQL to SQLServer 2008 Express [redux]

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:58:35 PDT

Last week, the SQLServer 2008 Express team released a download with the SQL Server Management Studio. A few weeks ago, I blogged how to export/import the .sql from one system to another.

Having installed the Management Studio, I noticed that I could import data into my new SQLServer database:

Having previously installed the MySQL .Net connector, all I had to do was fill in the blanks. Server (with remote access enabled), database, username and password.

The tricky part is mapping MySQL datatypes to SQLServer datatypes, and importing. Note that with a non-Express version of SQL Server Management Studio, you can save the schemas and automate the import.

Download it and give it a whirl!

Speaking at Sydney PHP Group

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:09:47 PDT

Pop along. PHP and IIS7, plus other SQL goodness. Also find out what exactly is a demon core?

In Which I Get My Own IIS7

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:28:20 PDT

Thanks to our resident Hosting Geek: Jorke, I have an internet-facing Windows 2008 / IIS7 web site.

Yes, Jorke is a brave man.

After logging in via Remote Desktop and changing my password, it is off and away on this funny experience with Windows IIS hosting.

For the record, historically I have always developed/tested my PHP/MySQL sites on Windows: from 2000, via XP and now on Vista, I would install Apache, PHP and MySQL to provide a mirror to the eventual âweb hostedâ server in the cloud.

First step is to install SQLServer 2008: Express onto the server.

Second step, to ensure that FastCGI PHP is running. Thanks to the support of FastCGI in IIS7, this took a minute at most:

Thirdly, as I plan to use the open source Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP, installing the extension: php_sqlsrv.dll and wiring this to launch in php.ini (one line addition)

After testing with php_info(); , I can see I have a working internet-facing server install.

Now onward towards php.

MySQL to SQLServer [Express] 2008

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:44:00 PDT

Being a historical LAMP guy, the first problem is how do I get my data across?

The release of free SQLServer Express 2008, with the integration with Vista x64, PHP and Visual Studio is an attractive proposition. But: schema and data first.

1. Using PHPMyAdmin, I exported the tables as SQL; and specifically ANSI SQL:

2. Edit the SQL

This is the ugly part. There were four main changes:

Change syntax of the CREATE TABLE to place tables inside the correct namespace (eg: database.dbo.table) and a (ouch) find and replace on INSERTS
Changing the syntax of the PRIMARY KEY
Adding SQLServer Transact SQL (T-SQL) 'go' statements after the table creation and insertion blocks
Changing the column types to match SQLServer types

3. SQLCMD

SQLCMD is the command line interface to your SQLServer instance.

Simply typing SQLCMD âS MAJORSTAR\SQLExpress -E -i export.sql

Where SQLExpress is the instance on a machine called MAJORSTAR, -E to login with my current credentials and -i to run the export.sql file.

With further research, the -d (to set db name) and other like tweaking, the amount of editing as completed in step 2 could have been avoided.

In a few short steps, I had imported my schema and data into SQLServer Express 2008

For more indepth articles, The Guide to Migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2005 looks informative

I LOL everytime I see âM$â

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:46:55 PDT

A common internet and twitter shorthand for Microsoft is MS.

Not-so-Microsoft friendly people use âM$â

I just have a good laugh. I remember the days when one used the dollar-sign to denote the variable as a string type:

M$ = "Microsoft"

or in other words, the variable M is a string of value âMicrosoftâ

Thankfully, most modern languages (even those from Microsoft) no longer use this programming language mnemonic (or what is formally known as postfix sigils)

I LOL AT UR L4M3 POSTFIX SIGIL

Digital Generation

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Popfly from Australian ReMIX 2007

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Atomic Live! Brisbane March 2008

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Popfly for Offline Demonstration :-)

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Presentation to Victorian IABC 28th May 2008

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Australia ReMIX08 Keynote, Sydney

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:14:00 PDT

Keynote from Sydney ReMIX 2008, 20th May 2008

Australia ReMIX08 Keynote, Melbourne

Sun, 25 May 2008 21:22:00 PDT

Keynote from the Melbourne (22nd May 2008) ReMIX.

Mark Pesce, Only Connect

Sun, 25 May 2008 21:18:00 PDT

Mark Pesce, Futurist and Inventor, gave a thought-provoking keynote on a Twitter+Wikipedia Future.

The socially, hyper-connected revolution we are living through will have significant impact on the future. Not only of our social, after-hours work lives: but also within the cube-farm.

Watch the video. How will your live be changes where everyone in your world streams their consciousness online?

30 minutes of Good Barry

Sun, 25 May 2008 21:10:00 PDT

Managing a micro-business online, or offline, usually involves paperwork. Lots of it. From customer enquiries to invoicing, the tracking of your biggest concern: the customer, is a tough task.

Shouldn’t computers and the internet make business easier?

You could just create a blog. Then add an email follow up system. Then another customer birthday card system. Very soon you are moving your data across too many diverse systems.

GoodBarry, a winner of the Transaction 2.0 "Best Aussie Business Startup" at last week’s CeBIT conference in Sydney, is the perfect answer.

Recently highlighted for their innovative marketing, in this video interview we see an in depth demonstration of GoodBarry.

Geek Gadgets of Yesteryear

Tue, 20 May 2008 20:41:00 PDT

Did Geeks exist in the 19th Century? They sure did. Did they have Geek gadgets. Oh, yes they did!

Telephones, typewriters, calculators: all blossomed through the 19th Century.

The screen capture is of a unique device called a Curta Calculator. Invented by Curt Herzstark, a survivor of Buchenwald, it looks like a pepper-grinder but is in fact a small calculator.

In this episode of The Geek Stories, see Matthew Connell, Curator of Mathematics and Computing at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, give a quick snoop through their secret storage area.

A 19th Century Geek

Mon, 19 May 2008 04:18:00 PDT

Did Geeks, as we know them today: polymaths, introverted, shy with the opposite sex exist in earlier times? They sure did.

Matthew Connell from The Powerhouse Museum introduced me to a William Stanley Jevons. A true geek of the 19th Century.

Who is Jevons?

He lived at the same time as Babbage, and invented the Logic Piano amongst many other geeky things. An early amateur photographer, he photographed an early Australia with an unique eye.

In this episode of The Geek Stories, hear and see a story of a true 19th Century Geek.

Email to the Future

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:47:00 PDT

Social networks are not new. Humans throughout our existence communicate, connect and correspond with like minded humans.

Written documents are the evidence trail that historians and museum curators, such as Matthew Connell from Sydney’s Powerhouse Musuem, use to decipher the lives of famous people.

To aid future historians, it is important that this digital generation store our correspondence. The Powerhouse Museum and Ninemsn Australia joined forces in a project called Email Australia.

In this episode of The Geek Stories, I trek into the archives of the Powerhouse Museum and see documents exchanged between Lady Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and a Brunel.

Their correspondence illustrates why we must email the future. The social networks of now must not be fleeting, otherwise our history is lost.

Support Your Local Barcamp

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:43:00 PDT

Barcamp? What is a Barcamp? Does it involve sleeping in a cocktail bar?

From Wikipedia, a Barcamp is an international network of user-generated conferences. Taking a tongue-in-cheek name from an invitation Foocamp , Barcamp is purposely open, relatively unorganised and, well, funner.

Generally, a group of un-organisers initiates a date, time, location for a Barcamp, and opens registration for all. No formal sessions are planned prior to the unconference.

People turn up and nominate what they would like to talk about. Attendees either watch, or not watch. But these attendees are not idle watchers. Most presenters invite questions, and many offline conversations take place.

If you are a parent of a geek-age daughter or son: take them along too. Barcamp attendees and presenters do not have an upper or lower age limit. A Barcamp is an excellent community of supportive geeks.

Having attended and sponsored (as Microsoft) a variety of Australian Barcamps, the vibe of the conference is relaxed with a sense of free intellectual exchange. In Australia, the attendees span the Open source world, Ruby on Rails crowd, Venture capitalists, Information architects and general geeks.

Support your local Barcamp. Attend, and more importantly, participate.

See me next at BarcampCanberra1:

Marketing, LOL-style

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:25:00 PDT

GoodBarry, a Web 2.0 company and their application GoodBusiness fills that need to deal with the boring administration and sales stuff as you have fun making cool things online.

Rather than traditional marketing with boring brochures and long videos of CEOs extolling the virtues of GoodBarry: Brett Welch has followed in the lead of the Windows Home Server team: write a story book.

Not any story book: this one is filled with internet memes and mega epic lulz4all.

In contrast, the Windows Home Server team took a more motherhood and apple pie approach in "Mommy, Why is there a Server in the House?"

Have you seen other examples of Rickrolls, FAIL and LOLCATs being co-opted by marketing types?

Nick Hodge, nickhodge.com, Professional Geek, Microsoft

Noel Volk

Strange Days in October. aka I Wish it were a Wednesday Already.

Where to Start With F#

Microsoft, Open Source and IronRuby

Free Microsoft Software and Online Services

Generation X is Stuck in the 1980s

Who woulda thunk?

SQL Server Driver for PHP: Last Inserted Row ID

SQL Server Driver PHP commands compared with MySQL PHP commands

AIMIA Presentation: Web 3.0 and Visualisation

1000 Words

Codeplex now supports SVN

How would you answer this question

79314

Vista as my PHP Developer Workstation

First Irons in the Fire

C# REPL for Mono

Slides from Sydney PHP User Group

Microsoft, PHP and IIS7

Daylight Savings

MySQL to SQLServer 2008 Express [redux]

Speaking at Sydney PHP Group

In Which I Get My Own IIS7

MySQL to SQLServer [Express] 2008

1. Using PHPMyAdmin, I exported the tables as SQL; and specifically ANSI SQL:

2. Edit the SQL

3. SQLCMD

I LOL everytime I see âM$â

Digital Generation

Popfly from Australian ReMIX 2007

Atomic Live! Brisbane March 2008

Popfly for Offline Demonstration :-)

Presentation to Victorian IABC 28th May 2008

Australia ReMIX08 Keynote, Sydney

Australia ReMIX08 Keynote, Melbourne

Mark Pesce, Only Connect

30 minutes of Good Barry

Geek Gadgets of Yesteryear

A 19th Century Geek

Email to the Future

Support Your Local Barcamp

Marketing, LOL-style

I LOL everytime I see âM$â