WebDD

WebDD is "a free conference in Reading specifically targeting web developers and web designers".

There are some excellent sessions listed, (including four presented by Scott Guthrie).

Register now, later will be too late.

Firebug

Firebug looks very useful, amongst other things it has a JavaScript debugger. I have always struggled with JavaScript, having treated it mostly as a "copy from the tutorial" language. I might give it another go now...

Mashups

A rather large matrix of mashup web-sites.

200 million stop blogging

200 million people have stopped blogging according to the BBC.

I think I shall carry on regardless...

CSS Optimiser

An online CSS optimiser.

Open Source Web Design

Open Source Web Design has 1694 templates for web sites. Some of them must be good!

MS Expression Web

Microsoft Expression Web is now available as a free trial.

It would be nice if it was just free. Anyway, I haven't tried it yet...

Wind Power

An interesting article from the Guardian on mini wind turbines.

I think these are only an option if you are about 30 feet above any other houses nearby. Turbulence cuts down the output.

It would be nice though, to have something that generated electricity at night or in stormy weather to fill in the times when the solar panels are not generating.

Solar PV 2006

This chart shows our Solar PV electricity production for 2006. In total we generated 885.55 kilowatts. We consumed 2,728.9 kilowatts.

So, the solar panels produced almost one third of the amount of electricity we took from the grid.

As we don't have an export meter we don't know how much we actually used, but some of the solar output would have been exported.

Photosynth

Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs is very impressive.

bigwavebay web 2.0 beta now available

I haven't posted anything in ages, so here is my web 2.0 logo courtesy of AlexP

I like what it does to the letter g.

MCAD

At last, I have finally finished my MCAD certification. I have passed the following exams:-

70-315 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET,

70-229 Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition and

70-320 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

So, I think, I am allowed one of these...



It has take about 9 months to do this, mostly in my spare time. Now that I have finished I can start to look at VS 2005, SQL 2005, and all the other things that have happened while I was busy studying.

Next year, maybe, I will start to work towards upgrading my certifications to the new shiny ones that Microsoft brought out when I was already half way through the MCAD.

And, oh look, I have been congratulated. Now I'm just waiting for the offers of work to flood in...

Agile

Declaration of Interdependence. Not as snappy as the Agile Manifesto, but interesting anyway.

Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows Live Local

The satellite view of our house is much more detailed on Windows Live Local than on Google Maps.

10 points to Microsoft.

MCAD upgrade path

MCAD upgrade, maybe next year...

Microsoft on TDD

Guidelines from Microsoft on TDD

3 things

1. Coding 4 fun on programming for Lego mindstorms with Visual Studio

2. Nice post on Waterfall

3. TypeMocks

Wiki books

Wiki Books on ...

Microsoft's new certifications and

Mandarin Chinese

Welcome surfers...

It's nice to see the clustrmap showing that my blog has been visited by people from America, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and NewZealand.

All I can think is that there must be a lot of disappointed people searching for "big waves".

Surfers! Imagine them, sitting at their keyboards, they've polished their surfboards and now they are wondering where those really really big waves are.... sorry, not here.

Don't blame me, blame the non-semantic web.