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FIOS Installed

Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged on October 28, 2005 | 2 Comments »

I am very excited today, “and why is that?” you ask…. because today my Verizon FIOS installation was completed. After having a new fiber cable buried from the street to my house yesterday, and two engineers working inside my house for a few hours today, I finally got connected this afternoon.  I  am now experiencing [...]

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Multicast Delegate Events as Properties

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

The saying goes “you learn something new every day”, and today is no exception.  I’m not sure how I missed this, but never less, this post shows how to gain finer control over adding and removing of event handlers to public multicast delegate events. Typically, most C# developers are used writing event code as follows: [...]

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Verizon to offer IPTV over FIOS

Posted in Business Advice, Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged on October 25, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Verizon, the provider of my phone and Internet, is soon to be offering IPTV – TV over the Internet – to those using FIOS. http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHome/Channels/fios/FiosTV_comingsoon.aspx Hopefully, I shall subscribe to this service as soon as it rolls out 2005/2006 and dump traditional analogue cable TV provided by Comcast. Using my computer as my DVR (currently [...]

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IIS 6/ASP.NET 2.0 Security Demystified – Part 1

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on October 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

This week I have been working on a custom security module for ASP.NET 2.0 (you mean to say that Windows authentication and Forms authentication is not enough?).   My development process has involved wading through .NET Framework security code (thanks to Lutz Roeder for Reflector), and reading articles on IIS (Internet Information Server) security in MSDN [...]

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SonicEncoders for Media Center Edition 2005

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on October 21, 2005 | 29 Comments »

I’ve been using MCE 2005 for a little while now, and I am smitten. What’s more, my wife loves it too, and our MCE box has become one of the most used pieces of electronic equipment in the house.  However, since I installed MCE, last April, I have never been able to figure out how [...]

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Apple Video IPOD – A Money Spinner?

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on October 18, 2005 | 4 Comments »

I had the pleasure of meeting up with my good friend, and business savvy colleague this weekend – Anton.  Over breakfast, we got chatting about Apple’s plans for the video IPOD.  Anton remarked that the video IPOD currently does not offer a fast forward or rewind feature when watching videos (insert shocked look on Rob’s [...]

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LCG Performance

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on October 12, 2005 | 1 Comment »

The following are the results of a performance test performed against LCGs, direct function calls, and reflection API invokes.  Each test ran for a number of iterations and produced a mean average time in milliseconds.  The efficiency of the dynamic method delegate (LCGs) calls are calculated as the direct method call time divided by the [...]

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Reflection and LCG

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged on October 12, 2005 | 7 Comments »

Anyone who has played with .NET long enough will tell you that Reflection is a really cool feature.  Essentially, reflection enables the developer to query the type system (CLT – Common Language Type system), dynamically invoke methods, and dynamically create types at runtime, using meta-data stored in the .NET assemblies. The reflection API is built [...]

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Change WindowsXP Bootskin

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on October 4, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Fed up with the usual Windows XP logo screen at boot up? No problem, check out StarDock’s BootSkin application to change it.  I am amused by the Commodore C-64 skin :)

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Reminiscing with a notepad

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on October 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

I was in a meeting this afternoon and happened to look back through my ring binder notepad, which I always bring with me (like the diligent worker I am).  As I looked back through the pages, I realized that some of the notes were taken back when I used to work for Symbian in London [...]

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