http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress Development, Gaming, Music Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:37:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that I'm finished off a project for work that I had to complete after hours, I finally have time to myself again. I setup VMWare Server in Windows XP and install Ubuntu 8.04. The only thing I love about Ubuntu is how easy everything is to install and setup. ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/08/installing-ruby-rails-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/ Well well, I finally get around writing a blog post. My first in almost two months. A lot of things have been happening over the last while and I'm hoping to get back to research and blogging again. Here's a run down of some of the things I've seen or ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/07/so-whats-been-happening/ I'm starting to feel like a true Nokia fan-boy here but I saw something very interesting today. Nokia recently announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight applications available to all S60 operated Nokias. That would would mean almost the entire Nokia N-Series if I'm not mistaken which would be a huge ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/05/silverlight-experience-brought-to-you-by-nokia/ The more I find out about this little gem the more excited I get. The possibility of me being able to afford it is a different story but a boy can dream can't he? Now as you can see in my previous post, Virgin Mobile told me that they have the ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/05/nokia-n78-in-detail/ I am thoroughly impressed with Virgin Mobile. Not only were they the fastest to reply to my query BUT they also have the N78 IN STOCK! Yes Steven We do have the Nokia N78 retailing for less than R5400 Time to check out Virgin Mobile! http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/05/virgin-mobile-nokia-n78/ Sad news from Vodacom for now. I just received a reply on my query regarding the Nokia N78. Here's the response: Dear Steven Thank you for your email communication to Vodacom. Cellular networks do not always approve certain handset models due to the fact it does not perform as well on their ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/05/vodacom-on-the-nokia-n78/ So I was dreaming of a new cellphone since my Motorola K1 is getting old now. I had a quick look at GSMArena. Nokia: Now Nokia and I have up and down relationship but most of my phones have been Nokias. And the one thing I must admit is that Nokias are ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/05/coming-soon-nokia-n78/ So I finally have a second to work on some blog related stuff. There are a lot of things I need to fix. I have also just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and it looks very nice so far. First thing to go are ALL of the widgets while I try ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/04/bare-with-me-changes-incoming/ Many reasons why the blog has been so quiet recently. I have recently moved into my own flat and I do not have ADSL or HSDPA yet so now prime blogging and research time is gone, that should change in a few weeks or so hopefully. Other than that, I have ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/04/personal-update/ You can now follow the Pro 20 Cricket on Twitter! Personally I'm gonna love this cause I can't always watch the cricket but now the cricket is going to come direct to my GTalk client which means I won't miss a thing! Well done to whoever had this idea, it is ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/03/south-african-pro20-cricket-joins-the-social-revolution/ Can you believe it?! It is true however, I downloaded latest MVC framework build and created a test project. The interesting part of all of this is that it seems MS is returning to the "coding style" of classic ASP with inline HTML coding very prominent. So seeing a default page ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/03/aspnet-mvc-promoting-good-web-practice/ Its official, I am now sick and tired of registering on every single different website I use! I honestly thought the uptake of OpenID would have been so much quicker! For those of you that have no clue what OpenID is, imagine creating an account on 1 website and simply being ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/03/come-on-people-start-using-openid/ MSDN: Understanding the ASP.Net Viewstate The article is exceptionally well written! http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/03/understanding-aspnet-viewstate/ More excuses ;) For the last two weeks I've been trying to get Visual Studio working correctly again without having to format my computer. After numerous re-installations I gave up and started setting up VMWare on my machine and I'll run VS through that. My favorite excuse for being quiet however is ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/03/new-projects-and-visual-studio-crashing/ The last few weeks have been incredibly hectic for me in terms of personal and professional developments. As such I haven't bought any new music is weeks and thus haven't needed to update my iPod's library. Yesterday however I got the new Nine Inch Nails album entitled "Ghosts". Its an amazing ... http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/2008/03/itunes-and-visual-studio-dont-get-on/