September 2004 Blog Posts
Probably the best book on the ins and outs of developing with SQL Server 2005 until they release the revised edition that goes with the actual gold code next year. Full review in the archive.
...for you are crunchy and good with mustard.
Sorry. I just like that. :-)
Craig Andera and team have released their long overdue rewrite of the MSDN library at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library. More obvious features include the lack of frames, table-less XHTML and CSS layout, and aliasing for easy access to the documentation. Let's hope this product gets better through the beta cycle. It already looks pretty clean and mean.
Peter Jackson and the folks who ran TheOneRing.net to cover Lord of the Rings shooting have started up again with KongIsKing.net for the Xmas 2005 remake of the 1930's classic. Looks like there will be regular teaser videos from the set too. v.g.
The beauty of no budget film making is that there can by definition be no great amount of studio time, so we’re always on location at a real place. Today we’re in a local theatre café. Schedule has us doing several shots looking from outside in. Indian summer means this is possible, although the brightness of the sun may pose problems due to it creating our reflections in the glass. Ironically, if it’s overcast, we can shoot bits of a 3 minute scene from 9am to 7pm. If it’s not, we have to hope the light levels don’t change so...
Nice link from Rick Strahl's blog via Julia Lerman. The Internet Storm Center have a blog written by its team of handlers. A couple of posts in particular strike a very poignant answer to that conversation from friend and family that starts with "What's a firewall?" followed closely by "Why do I need one?" The effects of malware parts one and two. Scary reading.
Not sure how long it has been up there - since some time in August I guess - but MySQL.org now hosts a beta download of their data provider for .NET which means that we don't have to worry about using their ODBC connector and the ODBC .NET provider. This is hopefully a later build of the ByteFx data provider for MySQL which has been around for a while. By the looks of things, Monty has done the wise thing and brought ByteFX into the fold to make it official. Good show.
Started work on my first feature film today as part of camera crew. Most of my weekends through to Christmas will be taken up with this. Mike, who usually produces has had this project in head for past two years and has taken up directorial reins this year with his co-conspirators in Dark Eyes taking up production and art direction duties respectively. Hopefully Bernadette will be as well received as their previous effort.
10am. Auspicious start. Todays location is confounding some of the crew members as its not on their A-Zs. While we wait for them to arrive for 9am call, acquaintances...