Will’s Blog

Noticed that Marcie posted her first post on the aus-dotnet list. Check out the aus-dotnet list archives. Cool, it’s a really great list and I feel that I’ve personally learnt a lot off it over the almost 2 years i’ve been on it. If you’re an Aussie and you program in .NET this is THE [...]

Yesterday when I got home, checked the mailbox, noticed that the new APC Magazine (Australian Personal Computer) had arrived. Included on the cover CD is a copy of Windows XP Service Pack 2, it’s got the funky Microsoft CD holograms (well, it’s more interesting than the XP Restore CD that came with my laptop…). Just [...]

I just received an email saying that #develop 1.0 has been released and ready for download over here. If you haven’t heard about #develop, then I suggest you do take a look at it. Check out the many features and take the features tour. #develop is basically an open source .NET IDE. Originally only had [...]

I’ve just had a read of Dan Appleman’s blog post in regards to advice he would give to students considering a major in Computer Science… Dan Appleman – Advice for future Computer Science Majors Having just graduated recently (ok, last November), I tend to agree with his advice. I’m posting it up here so I [...]

Just a tiny gripe… RSS Feeds need to be full text! I’m disappointed that blogs.msdn.com/weblogs.asp.net are not offering full Text RSS anymore. Although, as far as I can tell, if you subscribe to a particular blog, you will get them in full text! I suppose I can understand it though, with the amount of posts [...]

With the rise and rise of fuel prices around the world, how long will it be before we start considering the huge benefits of making use of alternative fuel sources? I have often wondered while driving past petrol stations, in how many years will it be before we start having a widespread campaign towards moving [...]

I typed those words into Google to see if one existed. The result? Nothing close to what I was after. My results included blogs written by Aussie Geeks, and a couple of other webrings. One was an Australian based webring, close, but still no bananas. What I want is a webring exclusively for Australians who [...]

Wow… If you are ever bored… check out this mail thread from the aus-dotnet list. Now seriously, the amount of posts in that thread is larger than the amount of posts in regards to VB.NET vs C# debate. GMail tells me there’s a total of about 79 posts thus far on the topic and i’m [...]

Ok, this is just a link to an article for now, i’ll post more on it later tonight. Australian IT – Election love-fest on open sourcehttp://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10650626%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Here’s a nice article by Aaron Margosis about a “tool” he has created to temporarily allow you to have admin rights. Go have a read of the blog for more details. This is a good tool to help us move away from always being logged in under the administrators’ account. You can think of it [...]