Computers

Additions to SUB

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:05:55 GMT

Just downloaded and included the ASP.NET Google SiteMap control, had to modify it a little so it looks at the mainMenu="true" option. You can have a look at its output here.

Also I've added a Post Archive, which just passes straight down to the sqlite datalayer where it groups posts by a formatted month/year string.

The other addition so far is a new search control on the sidebar. It also passes straight down to the sqlite datalayer and returns the appropriate post records.

personal C# SMS gateway

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:14:00 GMT

personal C# SMS gateway:

Host your own sms gateway. This project will probably need the windows .NET platform and a phone connected to a local com port. The project will be written in C# and demonstrate how to implement AT commands to control your phone in a web interface. I have read an article about controlling the com port using mono at as yet doesn't seem reliable.

virtual present using webcam

Mon, 30 May 2005 01:43:56 GMT

virtual present using webcam :

What is this about? Well you've probably all seen those status messages on webpages saying '3 users online'. Well this project will use a motion detector on my local webcam, when it senses that someone is moving around in my room it'll update my online, then when there's no movement offline. Simple.

xmlwebpackage

Mon, 30 May 2005 01:43:25 GMT

xmlwebpackage : What is it? Well its basically using the same idea as a compiled help file (eg. chm). But, the content will be stored in plain text in an xml file, then zipped into a non compressed archive along with the pictures and other document related files. When the page is requested by the client, the picture files are streamed straight from the archive by the web server as if they were separate files. All this content will then be combined and formatted using a specified Dreamweaver template file. So content can simply be 'plugged' into the website and the rest is generated from the template. So benefits...change the template and the whole site changes. Drawbacks? well probably updating content, although because the archives will not be compressed this shouldn't be too difficult.

MS XML Parser

Fri, 20 May 2005 03:38:34 GMT

MS Released what looked to only be a partial implementation of their XMLparser with windows 2000, this was then finished by windows XP and a patchis floating around to update windows 2000. Now there is .NET, with its own built in XML parsing.

I have been pulling data from a sql server, and then saving it out to XML. I then use the windows XML Parser to run it against an XSLT template to create my desired output file. Anyway .NET saves out a thing that looks like this: '&#xB ;' not exactly sure what it is yet, however the once happy full(er) implementation of the windows XML parser...is now unhappy again.

is mscorsvw.exe bad?

Brendan Kowitz — Wed, 11 May 2005 03:05:51 GMT

I've noticed an unusual process starting up after I installed Visual Studio .NET 2005 b2.

mscorsvw.exe is .net 2.0's assembly optimizer. The good news is; it starts up and works away in the background optimizing .net assemblies for your pc. However I did notice, when installed on WindowsXP SP1 that has been upgraded to SP2 the mscorsvw.exe process starts up and claims an unbearable amount of CPU.

It is apparently supposed to optimize in the background after it does your core assemblies which should apparently only take a few minutes. If it doesn't you've got a problem.

My solution come coincidently when my install of windows conveniently died a week or two after, so I installed a combined fresh copy of WindowXPSP2 and the problem never appeared. So my only conclusion is it might have been something weird happening with .net 2.0 and my install of XPSP1 upgraded to SP2

For more information see this article which may answer any other questions: What is mscorsvw.exe and why is it eating up my CPU? http://blogs.msdn.com/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx

Longhorn vs Tiger

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:01:59 GMT

Haha rivalry…lov’n it ;)

“Jim Allchin, Windows platform Vice President at Microsoft, said Longhorn is a much weightier project than Tiger, which he described as ‘a peripheral to the iPod.’”

Oh and also this:

“Allchin also said that some of Apple's ideas such as Dashboard were inspired by early demos of Longhorn.”

http://www.macminute.com/2005/04/25/tiger/

So who really invented the Konfabulator idea??

Konfabulator for ALL!

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:53:59 GMT

Very very cool..http://www.konfabulator.com/

Works with windows and mac..As for Apple's dashboard?http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/06/29/konfabulator/index.php
"If this is what they do with the products they think are the best, then whywould anyone have any reason to develop more cool stuff? I certainly don't" (Arlo Rose, the developer of Konfabulator)

I wouldn't be happy either.

Tiger is coming...

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:23:18 GMT

It’s finally happened…

Apple to Ship Mac OS X “Tiger” on April 29

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/apr/12tiger.html

IBM Alphaworks

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:16:56 GMT

Yep...And yet another reason why I like IBM AlphaWorks...Using .NET winforms from within Eclipse...they'll do anything. http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/eclipsewinforms