www.nickhodge.com

Down­loaded from source and compiled.

Iron­Ruby seems pretty self-contained (ie: all the Libs + gems) come along

Iron­Py­thon: I need to find out how to point it at my cPy­thon install

Can do simple .pyw to Iron­Py­thon­Windows, includ­ing a call to .NET Windows.Forms

Off we go!

Microsoft cus­tomer? Read this.

As Mike Sey­fang would say: been there, done that. And it should just work™

The last thing we want is the cows fad­ing in the sun due to the day­light savings.

This is one of the two Microsoft Surface’s that has been ‘smuggled’ into Aus­tralia. I fell asleep on it.

“Discussion: Are Social Net­works the New User Groups?”

An ever pop­u­lar fea­ture of Tech Ed is the Blogger’s Lunch and this year should be no excep­tion. Hos­ted by Roger Lawrence, Evan­gel­ism Man­ager at Microsoft Aus­tralia, this years Blogger’s Lunch will debate the pro­pos­i­tion that Social Net­works are the new User Groups. Make sure you add the Blogger’s lunch in your sched­ule builder and make your opin­ion count.

Topic: “Are Social Net­works the new User Groups” hos­ted by Roger Lawrence

Pan­el­ists For: Deeps de Silva

Pan­el­ists Against: Andrew Coates

Date: Thursday , 4 Septem­ber
Time: 1:00pm– 1:50pm (lunch avail­able in foyer from 12.30pm)
Venue: Sydney Con­ven­tion & Exhib­i­tion Centre, Darling Harbour

Room: Bay­side Ter­race, Level 2

Cost: com­pli­ment­ary for Tech Ed Del­eg­ates (lim­ited seats available)

Inter­net Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Mel­bourne (Premier of Vic­toria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.

What about this website?

Not so good. Some­thing is broken some­where. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to com­pletely dia­gnose and fix the word­press tem­plate. So, sort of like weld­ing it together for a few weeks until things die down — it is time for a simple fix.

How can you tell? See the “broken doc­u­ment” icon on the right of the URL: this indic­ates that the site has been designed for older browsers.

 

There are two poten­tial fixes. One is to click on the broken icon, and Inter­net Explorer will revert to Inter­net Explorer 7 mode.

A smarter fix for this web site is a one-line change to my tem­plate (in my case, header.php for this template)

<meta http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” con­tent=“IE=EmulateIE7” />

 

 

Refresh­ing the site, and magic­ally it renders cor­rectly, and there is no “broken” doc­u­ment icon.

I live only 5 minutes away from the most awe­some vista in the world: the Sydney Harbour.

Now you can exper­i­ence the Har­bour on a not-so-sunny day (that is, this morn­ing) thanks to Microsoft Pho­to­synth (note: Mac users: we’re work­ing on it. In the cur­rent term, you will need to Boot­camp to see Pho­to­synths. The VMWare Fusion guys say that their Beta 2 of Fusion 2.0 works OK with Pho­to­synth)

Pho­to­synth is avail­able for pub­lic cre­ation of synths. Grabs some pho­tos of an object or place, and synth them.

For fun, I also added a synth of “Rambo”, The Big Merino from Goul­burn, NSW.

The on10.net Shut­ter­speed epis­ode has an inter­view with the Pho­to­synth team.

This Week on C9: ASP.NET Maps, Apache, Sphere, War­craft, and more

Dan Fernan­dez invited me to the super-secret build­ing 20 monaco stu­dios for the weekly show “This Week on Chan­nel 9”

LOLCATS, Angus­lo­gan and other top­ics of dis­cus­sion. Fueled thanks to copi­ous amounts of caf­feine and some ran­dom birth­day cake.

Big shout out thanks to Dan for let­ting me loose in his patch.

A day after the Apache Found­a­tion OSCON announce­ment, Sam Ramji presen­ted to us Microsoft-ees in Seattle.

PHP, ADONET etc. The world is a dif­fer­ent place. All a part of Microsoft real­iz­ing that Open source is not going to go away, and the means of engage­ment is work­ing with the com­munity: not against it.

Phew.

I’ve landed at Microsoft at the cor­rect time.

At yesterday’s Matt Bai; Polit­ics and Tech­no­logy Forum in Can­berra, I exper­i­mented. Without test­ing, nor a safety net.

Hav­ing just received a new imate Ulti­mate 9502 phone with NextG HSDPA from @JonoH I wired up in the fol­low­ing way:

• Dell XPS1330, using Bluetooth Per­sonal Area Con­nec­tion from within Vista SP1 x64 to…
• imate Ulti­mate 9502, using Inter­net Con­nec­tion Shar­ing at 7.2Mb/s HSDPA on Tel­stra NextG running…
• ustream.tv put­ting pri­or­ity on audio qual­ity over video quality
• Placed laptop on the floor with cam­era point­ing to stage. I used the inbuilt cam­era in the Dell, and the same inbuilt microphone.

The res­ult is this: