http://code.blogdrive.com/ Code Samples Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:35:00 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Programming Software Computers & Internet http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/32.html Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:30:48 GMT One of the guys at Readify (Andrew Matthews) recently posted to the Tech list referencing a snippet from old posts/emails: "most code is the expression of desires through the expansion of code (design patterns) with metadata. Name anything that you have written lately that wasn't like that to some extent." To which Andrew asked: "If this is true, and we were ever to find a way to represent our desires more precisely/succinctly, what would be left of our day jobs? Could we ever boil our practical work down to JUST coding the business logic and nothing else? What kind of development... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=32 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/31.html Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:50:11 GMT Hi, There is a new SQL utility published on the Microsoft downloads' site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=16d8c1e9-a6a3-43a2-9ba7-916c6eb5023b&displaylang=en It allows the scripting of a database which includes both scripting of the schema as well as scripting the data! Well worth a look as it could be beneficial in a build process or backup. I've instaleld it but I haven't had time to see how well it works. I'm curious as to how it works, whether it uses COM or SMO or DMO or some combination. If you take a look at it, please leave feedback on it or it's... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=31 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/30.html Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:47:41 GMT The Internet Society (ISOC-AU) has recently been working on a new project, funded by DCITA, in a consortium with auDA, AEEMA and BuildersNet, to examine Australian readiness to implement IPv6. As part of this exercise, organisational network planning people (IT/Systems/Network manager or architect), are asked to complete our Australian IPv6 readiness survey at http://www.ipv6.org.au/. If you are at all interested in the future of the internet, please take the time to complete the survey. Regards Rob http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=30 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/29.html Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:47:02 GMT Hi All, Forst off a quick spot for the upcoming IPv6 conference to be held in Canberra in early December. The website (for more information) can be found at: http://www.isoc-au.org.au/ipv6summit/ Last year the first IPv6 conference was held in Canberra, and was a very useful and important meeting of the minds. If you have any interest in the Internet (or Internet-enabled technology) this is THE conference for you. Book now and I'll see you there. Now, on to other matters.. ICANN News According to trusted UK Technology site theregister (a favourite of mine for some ten odd years or... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=29 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:02:31 GMT A Word from our sponsors: Vista Support Tool --------------------------------------------- See if your machine is capable of running the next Microsoft platform: Windows Vista. The following is a link to a beta utility which will test your computer's capabilities with a view to supporting Vista's core functionality: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx Microsoft Australia: Tech Ed 2006 --------------------------------------------- Check it out.. Tech Ed is on, and the site's... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/27.html Mon, 22 May 2006 06:34:50 GMT My Eventual Next Blog Update A Word from our sponsors: Vista Support Tool --------------------------------------------- See if your machine is capable of running the next Microsoft platform: Windows Vista. The following is a link to a beta utility which will test your computer's capabilities with a view to supporting Vista's core functionality: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx Microsoft Australia: Tech Ed 2006 --------------------------------- Check it out.. Tech Ed is on, and the site's... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=27 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:02:30 GMT Hi All, Lets talk SQL Server 2005. So, one of the new features is the inclusion of Certificate management. This, in turn, allows you to selectively encrypt/decrypt within SQL - consolidating CPU use and centralizing your performance into one point. You'll need to create a Master Key to use certs/keys. Something to note is that if you detatch or restore a DB with a master key, you'll need to open the master key *t least once* to register the key with SQL Server. Once you've created a master key, you can create any number of certificates and from them, a number of symmetric or asymmetric... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:32:01 GMT Hi, So I wrote my first SQL Server Mobile based app last month. It was .. interesting. GEtting data onto the Pocket PC was the hardest part by far. I had an existing MS Access Database which I've had and maintained for donkey's years. First thing I had to do was port it into SQL Server. This is kind of ironic since I heard from a SQL team source that SQL Mobile is effectively just MS Access anyway (or Jet, depending on your point of view). So getting the data from SQL Server to Mobile is another trick. You'll need to do a subscription. More on that soon.. Rob http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:36:16 GMT Hi, I went out and bought my wife and I both each a HP iPAQ rx1950 last month. The main motivator was so that I could start working hands on with Windows Mobile 5.0. My pet project yesterday was to port across an old Access database which I've been using to keep track of our DVD collection. It was a bit of an interesting ordeal, and I'm sure I'll get to chronical it in this blog thid\s week or next week. Suffice to say that it wasn't very straightforward. I'm going to do some investigation within MS to see if there is a better way than I had to implement. The brief overview is: I had... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://code.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:00:44 GMT I thought it would be worth mentioning that Patterns and Practices have released an interim pre-release edition of the Enterprise Library (slated for a final release this month). http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2005/12/02/499529.aspx Normally I wouldn’t post to the message list about a pre-release (especially since the November Enterprise Library is still warm) – but the carrot in this release is that it (finally) comes complete with the UI configuration tool. If you were interested in the EntLib 2.0 configuration changes, get this version now and take a look. It’s located... (more) http://code.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23