Author Archives: spgennard

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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Extruding Light Painting Out Of iPads

Posted on September 19, 2010 by spgennard

Maria has a new iPad… perhaps I should pinch it and have some fun with it.. just like these chaps have… Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

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UK Windows Azure Online Conference–8th October

Posted on September 16, 2010 by spgennard

As someone who is very interested in Windows Azure, I would like to draw your attention to a online conference being run Microsoft… An online conference: “Microsoft Online Cloud Conference: the TechDays team goes online” has had a date change. … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 22, 2010 by spgennard

Last week I replied to a post about exceptions, it made me think those programming .Net daily take for granted the etiquette of using Exceptions. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts… well it is a sort … Continue reading →

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