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May 2005 - Posts

What Video Game Character Are You?

Saw this over on Chris Sells' 'blog: I am a Thrust-ship.I am small and tricky - where you think I am, I probably am not. I can work very fast, but I tend to go about things in a round about way, which often leaves me effectively standing still. Read More
posted Friday, May 27, 2005 3:55 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Another little command line tip

This time from Larry Osterman: If you type "NET HELPMSG <errorno>" on the command line, you'll get a human readable version of the error code.  So: C:\>net helpmsg 17The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive. Read More
posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:13 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Words and pictures

Whilst contemplating my favoured "UML sketch + prose descriptions" approach, and why I'd just chosen to remove some annotations to make the diagram more readable (IMHO, anyway), this thought sprung to mind: A picture might be worth a thousand Read More
posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:53 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Obfuscated English, and an Ode to C

Taken from an advert I saw on the Underground on the way into work this morning: ... Do bears relieve themselves in tree-rich environments? ... This is obviously not a pure example of obfuscated English, as there's some sanitisation going on there Read More
posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:57 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Happy Birthday to me

I've now hit "the big 040" (for the octally-inclined) but other than that not much else to say... Other than the fact it would appear to be Addy Santo's birthday as well. Read More
posted Monday, May 23, 2005 4:18 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Out with the old; in with the new

As Ryan and Adam have already mentioned, this site has recently migrated from .Text to Community Server, so first up is a big "thank you" to Ryan for all of his hard work in doing this. Hopefully you can still read this without any problems, Read More
posted Monday, May 16, 2005 7:39 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Software-related quotes

Via Grady Booch: Glen Vandergurg's collection of quotations on software design make for fun reading. My personal favourite is from Jamie Zawinski: To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. Enjoy...   Read More
posted Friday, May 13, 2005 4:53 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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ORM and code generation sections of FreeDevelopmentTools updated

Thanks to Richard Hundhausen and the commenters on this post of his, the ORM and code generation sections of my FreeDevelopmentTools list has now been extensively updated. Enjoy... Read More
posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:43 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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More free stuff: "COM & .NET Interoperability" book

From those nice people at TSS.NET. Read More
posted Friday, May 06, 2005 9:50 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Back again

And I'm pleased to say all went well with my daugther Sophie's operation. More later... Read More
posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:30 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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