Sunday, December 1, 2013
Sale: Tower - GIT client for Mac
Tower - the GIT client for Mac on sale here.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
TopStyle 5 - Going on Sale ...
"TopStyle 5 is a powerful HTML5 and CSS3 editor with a variety of tools that will make your job better and easier. With TopStyle 5,
you’ll have access to all of the latest HTML5 and CSS3 tags and
properties, all with autocomplete. You’ll also enjoy Insight,
Inspectors, and Validators that work together to help you to master all
of the ins and outs of these new standards."
Going on Sale - Soon -> $ 79 -> $39(US)
Going on Sale - Soon -> $ 79 -> $39(US)
Sunday, July 7, 2013
iPad: Music Notation App - Think Music Tech. app
Need to convert hand written music to sheet music [music notation]? Try Think Music Technology's upcoming app for iPad.
Forbes Article - The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman
"Maximizing shareholder value thus turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure." - Forbes Article - The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Douglas C. Engelbart - dies at age 88
In December 1968 Douglas C. Engelbart set the computing world on fire ... In little more than an hour, he showed how a networked, interactive computing system would allow information to be shared rapidly among collaborating scientists. He demonstrated how a mouse, which he invented just four years earlier, could be used to control a computer. He demonstrated text editing, video conferencing, hypertext and windowing.". Douglas C. Engelbart, died Tues, Jul-02/2013 at the age of 88. Read more here.
Fight the wave of technology
"Indeed it can be disappointing to see each new generation needing to
rediscover and reinvent each time the environment turns over. And we
can all readily cite examples of where the new never quite recreates the
old. Some great things are indeed lost
However, net-net I've grown to love the overall cleansing effects of these discontinuities.
As systems and apps age - gaining more features, more interfaces, more functions - they unavoidably accrete deep and broad complexity as a side effect of accreting value. Architectural complexity, development complexity, management complexity, usage complexity.
They can even accrete conceptual complexity. For example, the trivially simple and elegant "replicated document database & document routing" concept underlying our early Notes product evolved (by customer necessity) into such a conceptually burdensome form that huge services practices were ultimately built around it." - Ray Ozzie ... <read more>
However, net-net I've grown to love the overall cleansing effects of these discontinuities.
As systems and apps age - gaining more features, more interfaces, more functions - they unavoidably accrete deep and broad complexity as a side effect of accreting value. Architectural complexity, development complexity, management complexity, usage complexity.
They can even accrete conceptual complexity. For example, the trivially simple and elegant "replicated document database & document routing" concept underlying our early Notes product evolved (by customer necessity) into such a conceptually burdensome form that huge services practices were ultimately built around it." - Ray Ozzie ... <read more>
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Free .NET Decompiler and Assembly Browser - DotPeek.
Free .NET Decompiler and Assembly Browser - DotPeek.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Photo: Old Style Car - Painting
Another great photo. Saw this great old style car at the side of the road, pulled over and ended up talking to some great ppl.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Photo: Fishing The Docks
Latest photo/painting, "Fishing The Docks" - done at: Tobermory Ontario Canada.
Location:
Tobermory, ON N0H, Canada
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Photo: Mapleton Farm
Photo take in Mapleton Ontario during the long weekend.
WebApp: ClippingMagic - Online Mask creation - made real easy !
Interesting application for removing/masking out part of an image: www.clippingmagic.com
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Microsoft: XBox ONE - The next generation XBox
Microsoft has revealed the next XBox. Officially called the, "XBox ONE". The specs as follows:
8 Core CPU
8GB Memory
500GB HDD
Blu-Ray
802.11n
HDMI I/O
USB 3.0
... more details to come ...
8 Core CPU
8GB Memory
500GB HDD
Blu-Ray
802.11n
HDMI I/O
USB 3.0
... more details to come ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SQL Trigger: Updating a, "Modification_Date" with a Trigger
Never found a clear example online of simply updating a database's modification date with when a row is changed so I thought I would post one:
=======================
CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[TRG_{TABLE-NAME}_Update_ModificationDate] ON [dbo].[{TABLE-NAME}]
AFTER UPDATE AS
DECLARE @{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} [uniqueidentifier]
SELECT @{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} = i.{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} FROM inserted i
UPDATE {TABLE-NAME} SET Modification_Date = GETDATE()
WHERE {UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} = @{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME};
========================
Legend:
{TABLE-NAME} = Name of Table to create the SQL Server Trigger on.
{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} = Name of Column in table above that uniquely identifies a row.
=======================
CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[TRG_{TABLE-NAME}_Update_ModificationDate] ON [dbo].[{TABLE-NAME}]
AFTER UPDATE AS
DECLARE @{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} [uniqueidentifier]
SELECT @{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} = i.{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} FROM inserted i
UPDATE {TABLE-NAME} SET Modification_Date = GETDATE()
WHERE {UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} = @{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME};
========================
Legend:
{TABLE-NAME} = Name of Table to create the SQL Server Trigger on.
{UNIQUE-COLUMNNAME} = Name of Column in table above that uniquely identifies a row.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Zabeen Hirji - What a prick !
What a prick RBC’s chief human resource officer Zabeen Hirji is. How can you defend poor hiring practice when they claim that it is not hiring foreign workers to take over the jobs of current employees, as technically those who fill the 45 jobs will be employees of iGate, not RBC. Watch this CBC Video where she lies about how RBC is, "helping" their [former?] employees. Perhaps it's a case of hire your own ? This image says it all !
Friday, March 8, 2013
Mac: Magic Mouse and Windows 7
Trying to get your Apple Magic Mouse working on Windows 7? This did it for me.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Laptops stolen MacBook Pro and Samsung UltraBook NP540U3C
Well my laptop(s) were stolen last night at:
Cineplex Odeon Queensway Cinemas
[Islington & Queensway]
1025 The Queensway
Toronto, Ontario
M8Z 6C7
Canada
I would gladly pay a reward for information about the where abouts of these machine(s). The information on these machines (eg: personal photos, etc.) would mean nothing to other ppl but is valuable to me.
1) 13" MacBook Pro with French keyboard
Has a user called, "TAF" and "Stewart" a wallpaper of the Epic film. Screen mockup here.
2) Samsung UltraBook NP540U3C 13.3".
These were in a Kensington Laptop Bag.
There is numourous cables, accessories, battery charges, etc.
Along with these were suite cases of clothing and a new winter jacket.
Contact: stewart.whaley@gmail.com
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Young ppl r screwed
Great article on how jobs are changing and how the current gen will be screwed. Could not agree more with the article.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 - Download Links and offline instructions
Visual Studio Releases: 2012 -> 2022
Visual Studio 2012:
Update 3 - now available (Jun-26/13)
Visual Studio 2013
- Initial Release - now available. (Nov-11/2013).
- Update 1 - now available. (Jan-20/2014).
- Update 2 - CTP 1 (Feb-05/2014).
- Update 2 - Official Release (May-08/2014).
- Update 2 - now available (May-12/2014).
- Update 3 - CTP 1 (May-23/2014).
- Update 3 - Release (Jul-29/2014).
- Update 4 - CTP 2 (Sep-22/2014).
- Update 4 - Release (Nov-06/2014).
- Update 5 - Release (Jul-14/2015)
Visual Studio 2014
- CTP 1 (Jul-03/2014)
- CTP 3 (Aug-18/2014
Visual Studio 2015
- Preview (Nov-12/2014)
- Release Candidate (Apr-29/2015)
- Update 1 (Nov-30/2015)
- Update 2 (Feb-10/2016
- Update 3 (Jun-27/2016)
Visual Studio 2017
- Final (Mar-07/2017)
Visual Studio 2019
- Final (Apr-02/2019)
Visual Studio 2022 - Preview
- Preview 4 (Sep-14/2021)
- Preview 4 (Sep-14/2021)
Monday, January 28, 2013
iOS Update: v6.1 - Released
Apple releases v6.1 iOS Update. See here for information.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
XBox Live: Subscription Sale
On sale XBox Live - Subscription 12 months -> $39 Cdn. Sale ends Jan-24/2013
Update: USA sale available now on Amazon.com: $34.99(US)
Monday, January 14, 2013
Acrobat Professional / Standard 8.x Installer problems?
Having a problem installing Adobe Acrobat Professional/Standard 8 on Win7/8? Getting an extraction error near the end of the installer (eg: 99% complete)? Does it ask to find the AdobePDF.dll file? Click cancel let the installer continue. Then apply the Acrobat 8.1.0 update. After which you can decide to install all the other 8.x updates found here. Note: Unfortunately you HAVE to apply them sequentially. I updated all the way to 8.2 and then was able to run the Adobe Updater to take it to 8.3.1 [the last update in the 8.x series].
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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