Hearn Garage

Additional iCal feeds

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:47:33 +0000

Other [motor]sport related feeds:

F1 – F1 Calendar 2010

I’ll be adding to the list when I’ve got some to recommend.

MotoGP 2010 calendar available

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:45:09 +0000

Unlike previous years, I couldn’t find a decent feed (one with the actual times rather than just the day) so I ‘created’ my own. I’ve entered qualifying and race times for 125, Moto2 and MotoGP classes.

Point your iCal compatable client applications to the public link. If you see any mistakes then let me know and I’ll sort them out.

Silverlight 4 beta available

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:46:29 +0000

For those of you who love to code on the bleeding edge, check out the beta release of Silverlight 4. Please note that the development environment is limited to Visual Studio 2010 (see last post).

As has become the norm for Silverlight releases, there’s a slew of decent features to get to grips with. Microsoft will still receive a bunch of criticism over their RIA direction but .NET developers will be in their element.

What’s new?

In no particular order:

Right mouse click
Print support
Clipboard
Mousewheel support
Interop (for trusted OOB applications only)
HTML support with a new WebBrowser control (unfortunately limited to OOB applications)
TOAST windows (OOB again!)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 available

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:53:02 +0000

For those of you with MSDN subscriptions the download is now active!

Here’s the official notice from Brain Harry with additional information here.

EA tool coming soon

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:30:02 +0000

For the past week I’ve been doing my bit towards a tool built to support Sparx Systems’ EA UML modelling product. The tool adds a URL protocol handler (Windows machines only!) that will open a design artifact in an EA repository.

Canonic Labs wrote the original code but for some reason didn’t complete/release it. Upon request they recently open sourced what they’d done and I jumped at the chance to finish it off. I can now have links to EA artificats from TFS, Fogbugz, e-mails, etc. without having to create an EA shortcut file each time.

Keep an eye on the project site for details of the upcoming beta.

Updated Filtered Debug Viewer tool posted

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:24:11 +0000

It’s been sat on the drive for ages so I thought I may as well let it go live. Check out the original post for the download link. If you have any issues let me know.

Website back online

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:30:40 +0000

Over the weekend my hosting provider mailed me to say that the server my hosting was on had failed and some data was lost. Unfortunately they ended the rather brief e-mail with a blanket statement of ’some accounts had to be reset so simply upload your website…’. To say I’m not at all impressed would be an understatement!

It’s taken several hours to re-upload it and it’s likely to be a couple more to ensure it’s all back as it should be. No content has been lost as I keep a backup of everything uploaded. Unfortunately I have lost some of the site’s configuration settings (such as the gallery and the forum integration) as I didn’t have a recent copy of the mySQL DB content.

Leisure Suit Larry pages back online

adam — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:45:17 +0000

Normal service has once again resumed – apologies for the delay! I’ve still got some things to do on a few pages (such as the forum) but the game content is as it was (i.e. still not complete!).

Please note that as the pages are now hosted under my own web space, any domain specific bookmarks will now be invalid.

If you spot any issues, please let me know, thanks!

Silverlight 3 released

adam — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:40:06 +0000

Not even a year has gone by since the last version, Microsoft have released of Silverlight 3. This combined with an updated Toolkit (free controls that have had a different release cycle to the runtime) will provide the RIA developer with yet more fun

Grab it from Silverlight.net

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 released

adam — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:20:51 +0000

If you’re an MSDN subscriber you now should have access to the download of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. For the first time Microsoft have made TFS available for an x64 platform (x86 still supported) which is good news as most servers are going 64 bit these days. The IDE of VS sports a WPF based interface which is probably nothing to get excited about (after all a developer should demand speed and stability above all else).There’s support for Silverlight 2 (& 3) out of the box and a lot of extra facilities in .NET 4 (re-engineered Workflow is one notable example) which I may pick out a topic or two in the coming weeks.

Enjoy the install – the Team Suite Beta 1 was painless, TFS rather less so (which is both unsurprising and disappointing given how onerous the previous versions were).