Richard's Rant

Links for Saturday 18 April 2009

rcangus — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:15:54 GMT

One of THE most inspiring talks I have seen Creating MSDN like help using SandCastle...(read more)

Links for Friday 17 April 2009

rcangus — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:09:39 GMT

T4 Editor Extending your MOSS site with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 SharePoint Guidance V2 Drop 7 Building a Virtualized UC Development Environment New Workflow Engine for .NET...(read more)

My HTC Touch Cruise

rcangus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:00:10 GMT

I have had a HTC Touch Cruise for about 6 months now. It is a very nice phone with GPS, turn by turn software, wi-fi, camera, expandable memory and more, and I have been fairly happy with it. The HTC UI certainly masked the underlying Windows Mobile 6...(read more)

Is Quicken the most biggest rip off ever?

rcangus — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:51:55 GMT

Pardon me while I rant. This afternoon I was looking at my finances. Not a terribly exciting task, but a task that needs to be done. When I last rebuilt my PC, I had neglected to install my copy of MS Money 2004. This was not a great issue, as I had been...(read more)

Coldest Ride Ever!

rcangus — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:27:42 GMT

This morning was the coldest ride I have been on. When I left home at 6:20 AM, the apparent temperature at Archerfield was -1.2 Celsius. As I went through the park to get to Paradise Road, I snapped this picture: And yes, that white stuff is frost! My...(read more)

Is UML A Good Thing in an Agile World?

rcangus — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:51:39 GMT

I remember when I was at University and we were taught this new thing called UML that was going to change the world and make all software development predictable and manageable. Like most things that you are taught at University, the teaching is disconnected...(read more)

Links for Tuesday 12 August 2008

rcangus — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:18:22 GMT

Really good article on Database Modelling . It explains some of the proposed extensions to the UML to cater for Data Models....(read more)

Links for Monday 11 August 2008

rcangus — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:42:31 GMT

I am being slack today and only posting the links HTC Touch Tweaks HTC Touch Cruise Tweaks 2 HTC Touch Cruise Tweaks 3 HTC Touch Cruise Tweaks 4 Vista Security Broken Build your own Gadget Station 5 Best To-Do List Managers DIY Self Watering Garden Get...(read more)

Links for Thursday 31 July 2008

rcangus — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:22:40 GMT

Today I got all excited about Inversion of Control after listening to a a .NET Rocks Podcast by James Kovacs on IoC . Trouble is, I was tired as heel, so here are the links that I did not get around to reading (weekend task I suspect) Article on MSDN...(read more)

Very Interesting Mobile Phone Plan Comparer

rcangus — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:20:15 GMT

I stumbled across this today while I was trying to figure out who the better carrier/plan is. http://www.mobchoice.com.au/compare-cap-plans-spreadsheet Give it a go - you might be very surprised. I also had a look at the forums of Whirlpool.net and found...(read more)

Links for Tuesday 15 July 2008

rcangus — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:25:35 GMT

David Cumps has a nice series on Design Patterns Dan Lewis has a post on IE and SharePoint and security - a subject that has been bugging me for ages Ian Cooper has a great post on Test Driven Development A number of links about the Entity Framework vote...(read more)

Why would I buy a Mac?

rcangus — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:14:15 GMT

Macs are cool. They look cool. They ooze cool. But they also ooze a price tag that is so not cool. Take for example my Dell XPS 1530. I bought this off of the Dell site 4 months ago. I configured it as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 4GB 667 RAM 320GB...(read more)

Links for Wednesday 2 July 2008

rcangus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:32:59 GMT

Tutorial on WC F Ready, Set, Green: My Eight Week Journey to a Greener, Guilt Free Me on treehugger...(read more)

Links for Wednesday 17 June 2008

rcangus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:06:33 GMT

Well, after a few months of quiet, I am back. Interesting article about Models and Specifications 4 ways to make UAC in VISTA less annoying article on Receive Window Auto Tuning in Vista - turn it off for a suggested performance increase (not that I would...(read more)

Links for Sunday 20 April 2008

rcangus — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:27:17 GMT

So, how slack have I been for the last few weeks? Well, not really. I have been scrambling to finish my part of a project before I leave the Unisys fold. Yes, I have finally made a decision and am leaving Unisys for a change of direction. After 8 1/2...(read more)