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Dealing with long QueryStrings and WCF Data Services

You may find yourself in the same situation as I was this evening when dealing with large amounts of data being passed across to a WCF Data Service Operation. It just kept failing with a 404 Error as if the service is not there. This was coincidentally the same issue I had last September when [...]

The Future Landscape of Computing

Actually I think the title of this post could easily have been “Why the iPad and Apple will not take over the world” or “why the PC is not dead yet.” or perhaps “Why the Chromebook is not a Windows Killer” take your pick. There is not doubt that there is some displacement going on [...]

Get started with Windows Phone 7 Development today!

If you are looking to get started on Windows Phone 7 Development then there is no time like the present. With Mix10 well underway the floodgates have opened and the tools and documentation are readily available. There is heaps of training online, documentation to download and videos to watch. Read on to get all the [...]

HP Slate, Adobe and Windows 7. Bring it on!

That’s what I’m talking about, none of this iPad, No Flash, Costs Too Much, Your locked in to Apple crapolla. Looks great and it runs Flash! They have certainly timed the release of this well to coincide with the iPad tvc last night. Kudos to you HP and Adobe Kudos, that reminds me, it must [...]

Digital Media Soup (serves 1-n)

Do you ever go around to someone’s house and they have a kind of cool entertainment setup with loads of music and photos and it’s all on a big LCD telly and it’s hooked up to the stereo and you can watch DVDs and Blu Ray discs as well, all from the one setup and [...]

IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome – which browser should I use?

That is the million dollar question and if you had asked me this 12 months ago my answer would probably be very different. 1st off all of these browsers are free so you can use any or all of them and have any or all of them installed on your PC or Mac at the [...]

Do Believe The Hype

Windows 7 has brought record revenues to Microsoft for the quarter to the end of Dec 31 2009.

Microsoft’s bottom line gets a Windows 7 boost

What makes this story interesting is that it is consumer demand that has contributed largely to this and not business, which is expected to start the roll out this year.

I know the IT bods in my office are champing at the bit to roll it out and with good reason. I myself am a developer and having to go back to XP after being on Win 7 for nearly a year really sucks.

Never mind, it could be worse, I could be developing on OS-X and a Mac ;-) Just kidding kids.

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