Saving the world, step 1

We recently celebrated our first 100 kilowatts of solar photovoltaic electricity...


from our upgraded roof...

BBC Climate Change experiment

Donate your computer's idle time to the BBC Climate Change Experiment.

Uncyclopedia

The truth about Extreme programming from Uncyclopedia

Egoless

I currently have 451 ego points. Compared to some people that is no ego at all.

AJAX Translator

This is very nice...

An AJAX translator.

English
Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

German
"Brillig Twas und die slithy toves taten gyre und gimble im wabe"

French
"Le brillig de Twas et les toves slithy ont fait le gyre et gimble dans le wabe"

Not bad.

4 unrelated links

1. More Nuggets from MSDN UK .

2. Microsoft listens to feedback on it's misleading TDD item.

3. Martin Fowler on agility.

4. 10 things about WPF from Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells.
(I think WPF is a terrible acronym.)

India

My job went to India

Excellent idea, don't know if it's a good book though.

TDD

Microsoft fails to understand Test Driven Development.

Kids Programming Language

KPL.

This looks quite impressive. A bit more graphical and fun than LOGO.

VS 2005 and Firefox

If you have Firefox as your default browser when you install VS2005 and then you notice that VS2005 is trying to run Firefox all the time then look at this.

With 'File-Browse with' you can set the browser you want. Changing your default browser after installing doesn't seem to inform VS2005.

Yipee!

Currently downloading VS 2005 Prfessional Edition... 3 hours to go.

Running just to stay in the same place

There's a new generation of Microsoft Certifications...

I knew it would happen. I had hoped to have passed at least one exam first.

DDD

Another excellent Developer day at Microsoft on Saturday.

It would be an understatement to say there were some good presentations. There were some brilliant sessions, particularly on Avalon, Indigo and XML.

There were plenty of other sessions I wanted to attend but didn't. It was difficult to have to choose one track out of five. I am still kicking myself for not attending the XP Planning game. I do think it would be good to have a whole day devoted to this subject though.

MCAD things

Certifications to include Simulation Testing?!!? View demo.

And, a practice test demo for 70-315.

The Walrus blog

On behalf of Odobenidae everywhere my brother Chris has started blogging. His blog has comments and trackbacks. Why doesn't mine?

CSS tips

CSS tips and more

Install MiniOddie

Fresh from the Beeb... A mini Bill Oddie

Now, back to MCAD studies.

Developer Day

The TripleD Developer day agenda is looking good. Last time the difficulty was deciding which sessions to attend. This time you get to vote for sessions in advance which may help...

Testing Private methods

An article on testing private methods. I don't like the idea of using Reflection to do this. But the alternative looks complicated too.

I have more sympathy for the idea of keeping classes simple. If there are a lot of private methods that are difficult to test through the public interface then perhaps it is time to refactor.

Too busy to blog...

No time to blog, I'm busy installing different versions of SQL Server. First I tried the Enterprise version, but that doesn't work on XP. So then I tried the MSDE but that didn't seem to be what I wanted either. So now I am trying SQL Server Developer edition which does run on XP.

With any luck I'll have some time for studying soon...