bigwavebay.net: 2006

10 November 2006

Photosynth

Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs is very impressive.

19 August 2006

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.

23 June 2006

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...

06 June 2006

Agile

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

31 May 2006

Windows Workflow Foundation

26 May 2006

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...

19 May 2006

Microsoft on TDD

Guidelines from Microsoft on TDD

21 April 2006

3 things

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

2. Nice post on Waterfall

3. TypeMocks

07 April 2006

Wiki books

Wiki Books on ...

Microsoft's new certifications and

Mandarin Chinese

06 April 2006

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.

28 March 2006

Scrum

Scrum addin for VSTS

17 March 2006

TDD video

Test Driven development on .Net Rocks TV

04 March 2006

A number of things

1. A collection of Vs2005 C# Code snippets

2. An Ajax programming community ... with some very impressive links including one where you can drive around Seattle or San Fransisco

3. Continuous Integration with VSTS

4. Anthem.Net Ajax toolkit for ASP.NET

5. The "Most Interesting Technical Podcast " award goes to Hanselminutes

6. Video game development. Learn to write C# the fun way. If you have time

7. ScottGu's link to ASP.NET 2.0 videos online and on Security resources

8. MCTS in Sql Server 2005

27 February 2006

Microsoft Certified

Hooray! I just passed my first Microsoft certification exam, on Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.

This means I am now a Microsoft Certified Professional.