This weekend has been fairly interesting! The Good The weekend started great; left work early, picked a kitchen for my new house then bought a 40" Sony Bravia LCD HD telly!! Woohoo, finally get rid of the big 32" block sat in the corner and we can upgrade to Sky HD and see what all the fuss is about! The Bad Despite another great century by Kevin Pietersen in the cricket world cup helping England to beat the West Indies by 1 wicket in a 300 run chase, certainly the best game of the tournament; England ......
If you are based in the southwest of England you are probably aware that there isnt a dot net user group and if you want to see any presentations you have to either be lucky enough and well planned to get in when MS come to Bristol but most likely theres the drive up the M4 to Reading. (I guess you could brave public transport and risk being late, getting lost or perhaps just not getting anywhere - bollox to that!!) I did post sometime ago enquiring how one would go about starting a user group - ......
If you are using windows vista on a domain you may find you are unable to get windows updates. When added to a domain Vista adds a registry key (a policy) to look for a WSUS server. I don't know the ins and outs of it but I presume that if that server isn't dishing out Vista updates it fails. So anyway the key to delete is... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software... there is a subkey called AU; delete that as well! Restart windows and set the update going and all should ......
After the update to subtext yesterday I decided I would have a look for a new Skin, I am not much of a designer so quite easily pleased (!) but surprisingly I didn't really see any there that jumped out at me so seeing I didn't have anything to do this afternoon and I rarely play around with design'y type things I would have a go at my own...I didn't really plan on creating a "skin" it just kinda went that way as I was changing this then that etc in the custom CSS part of the options tab in the subtext ......
Some interesting points here! ;-)
And a few people commenting taking it a little more serious than I did!! :)
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/04/sexdrive_0406
I have just clocked that the Enterprise Library has been released; you can download it here I am quite new to using the Enterprise library and I don't use all of it but there are distinct advantages to using it when developing Enterprise (!) size applications. Especially where the Exception handling rules are concerned. For smaller projects I would probably consider the use of the library as overkill!! Overview from the site " The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application ......