Monthly Archives: August 2008

Hug a Developer!

Posted on August 29, 2008 by

Being a developer is not all fun and giggles you know Technorati tags: Hug a Developer Advertisements

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Daily Builds

Posted on August 27, 2008 by

Smalltalker from JP Morgan talks about the daily build process. Man, these guys have a monster image Developers always start with a fresh image each day. They then ensure that all of their code loads into that fresh image. They … Continue reading →

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Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP

Posted on August 27, 2008 by

  Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users. More…

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Barry Carr on Oxygene Part 2

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

Here’s the second part of Barry’s talk. Technorati tags: Community, Barry Carr, Oxygene

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Barry Carr on Oxygene

Posted on August 21, 2008 by

Recently I caught up with local speaker Barry Carr and got him to tell me a bit about his new favourite language Oxygene. The screen cast is broken into two parts as YouTube will only allow broadcasts of 10 minutes … Continue reading →

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Dawkins, Darwin and Digital DNA

Posted on August 20, 2008 by

Right now Channel 4 is showing a 3 part series, hosted by Richard Dawkins, entitled The Genius of Charles Darwin. In the second episode of this series Richard was putting the idea of intelligent design to the sword, as only … Continue reading →

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Why Britain Should be a Secular Society

Posted on August 18, 2008 by

Up until recently, I’ve never had particularly strong feelings either way about religion. People who put the decisions of daily life into the hands of a “superior intelligence” were just coping out, as far as I was concerned; not having … Continue reading →

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