Do you buy DVDs, Blu-Ray discs or download movies? Whatever your preferred format, you can now buy direct from the studio through a network of hi-tech vending machines to be sited at shopping malls, airports, retail shops and rail stations around the country. If you haven’t seen one of these yet, it’s only a matter of time: …
If you had your lights on between 8 and 9pm on 29th March, you probably didn’t realise / care that it was Earth Hour, a worldwide version of San Francisco’s Lights Out event designed to raise awareness of climate change. Earth Hour is now in its second year, with many cities around the world participating in the …
Just when we thought it couldn’t get more irritating than blogging, we can now share our tiniest thoughts throughout the day with Twitter. I just started Twittering. Not because I want to, but because someone started a campaign to make me think it’s a good idea to share the things I would usually discard without …
Yesterday, I travelled down to Birmingham to attend Heroes Happen Here, Microsoft’s launch event for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. After checking out of my panic-room (Birmingham Travelodge), I made my way down Broad Street towards the centre on a cold but sunny morning. I arrived at the ICC at around 09:00 and somehow …
Do you think Scotland needs it’s own top-level domain extension? Scottish visitors should check out this page for an outline of the proposal on Wikipedia Scotland. Everyone else should visit dotSCO, the campaign site for the .sco gTLD. Their plan is to submit a proposal to ICANN later in the year. You can support the cause by signing the e-petition to …
A meticulously planned sequence of events designed to allow me to get to The Feeling gig on time last night (despite being booked on the 6:30pm flight from Gatwick to Glasgow) had one major flaw. Before setting off on my travels earlier in the week, I decided to do something completely alien to me, planning: I intentionally stuffed everything I needed for my …
Let me start from the beginning… Prior to the formation of ICANN in 1998, Network Solutions (owned by VeriSign) was the place to purchase top level domains. These days, the industry is open to competition, with players like GoDaddy and eNom blasting them out of the market in terms of quanity of domains on their platform. This seems to have …
This guide covers importing a CSV file into a blank worksheet using Microsoft Excel 2007. Don’t open the CSV in Excel, instead create a new workbook, click on the data tab on the ribbon and select ‘Get External Data’, ‘From Text’. Select ‘delimited’ if your data is seperated with a specific character. You’ll have to specify …
Microsoft has just announced a Scottish launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. The event will take place in Edinburgh on 23rd April 2008 and will be held at the Royal College of Physicians. This is great news for Scottish partners and those who, due to overwhealming demand, couldn’t get registered on …
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Publishing and testing a Windows Communication Foundation Service in IIS7 on Windows Vista is pretty straightforward, but there are a few pitfalls to look out for along the way. This post is designed to compliment the screencast ‘Creating and consuming your first WCF Service’ which I will publish here soon. I hope sharing this with you saves you some …
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