MindManager is a very slick product, it looks and feel like every other Office application. I've used this product for a few university project management assignments to create things such as work breakdown structures (WBS) as well as just general information organisation.
The version I'm using is the Lite version (heaps cheaper) which still carries a lot of features but lacks the integration to other office products. It also lacks the additional information you are able to attribute to the topic nodes such as start, finish dates, time estimates and resources. Although these would also be nice to have from a...
There are a fair few CMS solutions floating around in .NET at the moment, a good general comparison tool can be found at CmsMatrix.org.
Cuyahoga
In the past, the Cuyahoga Website Framework has looked always fairly interesting, it is also built on NHibernate which to me is a plus. Most things I've done with NHibernate have generally "just worked", maybe it's because NHibernate development is pounded with unit tests, whatever it is, it works.
I haven't had any experience developing any extensions for Cuyahoga, so I don't know exactly how extensible it is yet. In terms of usability, I did find the interface...
I just couldn't resist sharing the news with all those who have been burned with the Netgear SC101 network storage device. Call it what you like NAS, SAN, Hard drive with blue cable plugged in, doorstop, whatever. Netgear has finally after a few delays (6+ months), released a Vista driver, which, yey, I can verify works on my Vista Business Edition. I still haven't had any luck with getting it installed on Windows Server 2008 (errors with "Failed to install the Z-SAN SCSI miniport driver" whatever that is), but hey, 1 out of 2 ain't bad.
So if you're one of...
Intro
Over the last few months we have been attempting to implement some 'better' best practice methodologies within our SDLC. Some of the things that we have already been addressing are:
Simple Coding Standards and Rules
Nant Build Scripts
Continuous Integration with the help of Cruise control
Although I feel this is a good start, one of the more critical best practice aspect that has not been properly addressed is Unit and Regression testing. At the beginning of the previous project we had good intentions but because we got extremely battered for time, the Unit tests were all but abandond. However, the time has come...
Programming visual C# 2005: The Language by Donis Marshall
Book highlights for me:Below is a brief list of some of the language highlights presented in "Programming Visual C# 2005" that I have finally been able to get my hands on.Nullable types//Define a nullable type int? a = null;
//Boxing a nullable type object b = (object)a;
//Detecting if a boxed value is a nullable typeif(b.GetType().IsGenericType && b.GetType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>))
//Avoiding nulla.GetValueOrDefault(0);
//Setting a default value a = value ?? 0;Weak references//Using weak reference is a way of pointing to an object's value, but it's special because when our friend the garbage...
A few weeks ago I purchased a netgear SC101, here are my pros and cons of the shitty device. Firstly if your going to waste money on one of these, read some other reviews on the net first...I sure didn't.
About: The SC101 is a device you can put on your network and plug a few hard disks into it, load the (windows only) software onto your computer and away you go. Seems like a pretty good trouble free idea for pumping potentially a lot of storage into your network (if it worked).
Pros
It looks like some kind of...