Yearly Archives: 2010

DNS – Tweaks take 2

Posted on December 21, 2010 by spgennard

Although I have good results tweaking my DNS it appears it can have its side affects if you have a very fast internet connection and are doing some serious streaming… have a read of the following quoted article. If I … Continue reading →

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AzureKit and COBOL

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

AzureKit is a nice piece of source code released on CodePlex by Mark Rendle. The AzureKit makes life much easier for creating, searching, deleting elements in your Azure’s Table Storage. My idea was that if the AzureKit was easy enough … Continue reading →

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DNS – Tweaks

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

DNS speed can really affect your home router either for the better or worse.. I use a open source bit of software called namebench to periodically verify that I am using the most performant/reliable DNS server. Take a peek, it … Continue reading →

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MacBook upgrade

Posted on November 28, 2010 by spgennard

My home laptop is my beloved black macbook which has a reasonable Core Duo 2.2 ghz but unfortunately the hard drive is getting a bit full due using as my digital photo album… After a bit of research I decided … Continue reading →

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Attachmate acquires Novell for $2.2 billion

Posted on November 23, 2010 by spgennard

Over the last decade I have gained quite a lot of respect for Novell mainly due to their SUSE Linux platform and Mono. Strangely one of the companies involved in the acquisition is “Golden Gate” from San Fran, looks like … Continue reading →

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Programming languages on the rise: Cobol

Posted on November 13, 2010 by spgennard

Although the article/quote below is so true…. Programming languages on the rise: Cobol It may not be fair to call Cobol a niche language as it was once the dominant language in the enterprise. Grace Murray Hopper, famous for finding … Continue reading →

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Java… does it have a future? Well not for me..

Posted on October 22, 2010 by spgennard

As someone who has used Java for my own development needs for years, I find it sad the Java platform appears to be falling apart or at the very least getting some bad press. Lets consider the recent events, we … Continue reading →

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SQLCLR – Drop Assembly + Dependancies

Posted on October 7, 2010 by spgennard

Recently I have had the pleasure of working on SQL Server 2008 R2 using the SQLCLR support. Which I must admit it is quite nice to use, though a couple of things have anoyed me while using… one of which … Continue reading →

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Visual COBOL 2010 R3

Posted on September 22, 2010 by spgennard

For the last couple of months I have been working on next release which is cunningly name: Visual COBOL 2010 R3 Which is surprising since the previous was called Visual COBOL 2010 R2. If you are using any of products … Continue reading →

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Good News!

Posted on September 21, 2010 by spgennard

I just purchased a look online and got the crappiest message in the world… thanks Amazon! Good News! You saved £0.00 on your purchase Kindle edition prices differ by country. The price for this Kindle edition is different from the … Continue reading →

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