Category Archives: Code

What makes StackOverflow different…

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Sam

I was asked the question recently, what makes StackOverflow different from other developer forums. (Thanks http://twitter.com/redgum) http://www.stackoverflow.com I’ve only been using it for a few days now, and its still in private beta, although it is claimed to be (mostly) … Continue reading →

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Big Bug in Flickr Screensaver

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Sam

Hi I’ve just been informed of a fairly large bug in the uninstaller for the latest Flickr Screensaver. Basically if you uninstall it it will try and delete your WindowsSystem32 directory. Obviously that is VERY BAD. I apologise. I’ve deleted … Continue reading →

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Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity?

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Sam

Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? A difficult one this one – I’ve never actually been able to work with 2 same sized monitors, but I have tried to use a laptop and an external monitor at … Continue reading →

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Flickr .Net Screensaver – Release 4.2

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Sam

Flickr .Net Screensaver – Release: Release 4.2 Finally released a new version of the screensaver. This is a beta release, but hopefully should fix the problems that people have been having with memory and threading issues.

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20 things I’m longing to do in 2008 (Part One)

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Sam

Tagged by Brenda, so… I shall start at 1 and see how far I get – so in no particular order: 1. Convert my Flickr Screensaver to WPF. I thought I’d start off with this as this is a mostly … Continue reading →

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Jing Project uses Flickr.Net

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Sam

I’m please to say that the new version of the Jing Project, a tool for capturing video and screenshots of your desktop uses the Flickr.Net library to upload the files to Flickr (I’m assuming on the Windows only version). As … Continue reading →

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Helping out on the Wrox forums

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Sam

Since I started working as the technical editor for the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 reference book I thought I’d try my hand at helping out on the Wrox Programmer to Programmer (P2P for short) forums. When I first started … Continue reading →

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Official ASP.NET MVC framework – CTP release in ‘next few weeks’

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Sam

News about the recently previewed Model-View-Controller framework for ASP.Net is that a first look Community Technology Preview is due out in a few weeks. It will form part of the ASP.Net Futures release, which is a product I had a … Continue reading →

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Implementing extension methods to XSLT in .Net

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Sam

Most XSLT processors contain methods to call custom methods (known as extension methods) written in your favourite programming language. Java XSLT processors allow you to write them in Java, and the old MSXML processor allowed you to write the in … Continue reading →

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.NET Rocks! in Tyne & Where?

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Sam

After trying to catch up on the .Net Rocks shows (great shows for .Net deveopers – you learn things you didn’t even know you needed to know, and some things you didn’t need to know) I couldn’t believe it when … Continue reading →

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