Archive for April, 2005

Optus 3G

Monday, April 25th, 2005

Looks like Optus has jumped the pack ahead of Telstra and Vodafone to offer their own 3G services this month. Well, in Canberra anyway… With Melbourne and Sydney to follow later in the year. On mobiles, did anyone see this? Apparently Telstra is offering free GPRS internet access for its’ Pre-Paid Plus customers from April [...]

An interesting usage of XmlHttpRequest

Friday, April 8th, 2005

Was browsing for some webcontrols the other day and came across a .NET code translator. Some people might say, hey, there’s plenty of those around already, what’s so special about this one? Well, you’ll have to try it for youreslf You can translate from VB.NET to C# and vice versa. And it’s all done on [...]

Just got my new Tablet PC today!

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Today, at 9:45am a big box landed in my office. Ah, I thought, my magic package has arrived Actually, it was my new Tablet PC that I’ve been waiting for. So now i’m in the possession of a Toshiba Portege m200 Tablet PC. Very cool! Oh, and i’ve found myself spending much time flipping back [...]

Using ASP.NET to prompt a user to save when they are leaving the current page

Monday, April 4th, 2005

Wanted to save this link for anyone else who might find it handy. Scott Mitchell wrote an articled titled “Using ASP.NET to Prompt a User to Save When Leaving a Page“. It is exactly what i’ve been looking for, and i’m sure others implementing ASP.NET pages with similar needs, will find it handy too! And [...]

The Podcast Network – Microsoft Developer Show

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

Wow, just downloaded the very first Microsoft Developer show being hosted by none other than my former University Lecturer, Peter Stanski (That’s Dr Pete for short). Listening to it right now. My first impression when I first heard who they were having host the show, I thought, hey, cool, this should be interesting. He’s definately [...]