Category: tech
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Leopard First Impressions
I’ve now had some amount of 3 days to play with Leopard, the new version of Apple’s OS X operating system, after lining up outside the SoHo store on Friday night - yeah, I’m a fanboy. Here are some first impressions (and consider I purely use OS X at home, not at work (yet )
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Wordpress updated
I'm still using Textdrive (Joyent as they are now) to host this site and have recently upgraded to version 2.3 of Wordpress. Shoot me an email if you see any problems with RSS, etc.
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alt.net conference review [altnetconf]
Last Friday saw me on an early flight from New York to Austin, Texas, for the (first?) alt.net conference. This was a 'not organised by Microsoft' open space format weekend event for people with background in, or a desire to see more, .NET development done in a 'way' that may not necessarily fit the norms as suggested by .NET's own documentation or Microsoft's knowledge base as a whole.
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On open plan offices
Today I read a good little piece (via Garrett Smith) on open plan / open space offices (i.e. no individual offices). A particular gem came towards the end (emphasis mine):
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Changing the 'lock screen' keyboard shortcut in Ubuntu
Sometimes it's the simple things in life that make me happy...
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XP NYC Blogs
Thanks to the web 2.0 goodness of Yahoo Pipes, I've setup an aggregation of XP / Agile blogs of people based in NYC. You can see it at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=nBxJoGVb3BGBtu7ty6ky6g
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I'll be at the alt.net conference in October
I'm not doing much coding at the moment, and none of it in .NET, but that's not stopping me going to the alt.net conference in Austin, TX, for the first weekend in October.
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Now about that iPhone price reduction
Let me get this straight from the get-go : I'm not expecting or desiring sympathy.
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Introduction to Continuous Integration @ Agile 2007
Today I presented a session at the Agile 2007 conference on Continuous Integration. I've given this presentation a couple of times, but it was still a bit tricky getting the slides, demo and time for Q&A into 90 minutes. The slides are here.
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iPhone morning ... in my apartment
So you know how last week I was saying how I didn't buy an iPhone the night it came out? Well I also didn't buy one that weekend ... but in the end I did buy one yesterday (yes, that's the distraction I was talking about in my July 7th entry!)