Will’s Blog

A few days ago I noticed a new post on Techcrunch about a rumoured new Microsoft service to be called MSN Soapbox. They say it’s a YouTube clone, to that I say, yeah sure it seems like it. But that’s not the interesting part to me. The TechCrunchers were also wondering why the service was [...]

There’s been a lot written about Peter Brock, on the web (blogs, news websites etc), on tv. A great Aussie, who did what he loved best. It is a sad loss of a life. As it was with Steve Irwin earlier in the week. After reading many of the articles in both Melbourne papers (The [...]

Woah, this is a bit hard to believe. Steve Irwin (aka the Croc Hunter) has died at around noon (AEST – GMT+10) whilst filming a doco. Apparently he got stung through the heart by a string ray. For more, check out the ABC News article. It’s certainly got the Aussie web buzzing (just take a look [...]

My previous issue with IE 7 has been resolved. All I had to do was add the site to the “Local Intranet” zone (which it should’ve been anyway), and all seemed to work as it did previously. A bit more investigation revealed a security setting named “Include local directory when uploading files to a server”. [...]

I got an email the other day from my the company (StatCounter) that provides the hits stats to this blog that they’re now using Google maps to show us where our visitors are from! Pretty cool, you just click on one of those red “pins” and it’ll give you expanded information on that particular visitor [...]

This post was composed in Windows Live Writer utilising the Ink Blog plugin! More plugins mentioned in Frank’s post!

This is an interesting one that I just came across today. One of our users has downloaded the latest IE7 Beta release and has found that one of the features that she relies on no longer behaves the same way. I got her to try to use that feature on another PC (which has IE6), [...]

Just stumbled across this site called the CodePlex, via bink.nu What is CodePlex? CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. It has been written from the ground up in C# using .NET 2.0 technology with Team Foundation Server on [...]

Just noticed that there’s a Compact Framework version of the Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit called the Mobile Client Software Factory available now. Francis K. Cheung has a series of posts on his blog about issues relating to porting to the Compact Framework. On a side note, is anyone else heading to MEDC 2006 in [...]

Does anyone have personal recommendations for web hosting providers? My requirements are: – ASP.NET 2.0 – SQL Server 2000 (or 2005) – Up to 5 domains – 1GB web space I guess i’ll leave it at that as the base requirements. As for price range, probably no more than $30AUD. So far, I’ve looked at: [...]