Makiwa

The phishing community is pulling out all the stops and making their lures quite convincing. While I never follow links in emails that ask me “to update/confirm information” and basically dismiss them out of hand, I always give the email a once-over to prove that is not legit. Today I was surprised to see that the email actually linked to eBay.

I seem to have made a sweeping generalization in my post about Windows Installer 3.1 breaking Visual Studio 2003 deployment projects . The only scenario in which the installation fails under version 3.1 is if you are running it from a subst‘ed drive.

A good friend of mine, Steve, pointed me to a news item entitled Apeakolypse Now, which predicts the imminent collapse of civilization as we know it.
The premise of this report is that:

Over the last 200 years modern civilization has evolved to become completely dependent on oil.
The more oil we pump out of the Earth, […]

We’ve all experienced it. You’re at a party and there is a plate of snacks or a bowl of olives or something. Everyone is eating them quite happily and then before you know it - shock horror - there is only one left! Suddenly, the olive bowl is a no-go area: nobody wants to be […]

Well, the title says it all. I was doing a product release yesterday when I found - to my astonishment - that the installer was broken. I have been using a Visual Studio 2003 web deployment project and it’s worked fine for months…then yesterday I got this during installation.

It turns out that the new update […]

Anyone who spends their working day programming must surely have had the experience of “dreaming in programming logic”. The forms that these dreams take will obviously vary from person to person, and from dream to dream. For me there is always an underpinning sensation that the flow of the dream is being governed by […]

I have been really struggling this morning with the way ASP.NET renders server controls for Firefox. It will render a Panel as a DIV under IE, but as a TABLE under Firefox.
I thought I was going to need to include different stylesheets for different browsers and I was getting kinda annoyed by it all because […]

I am mildly amused by the subject of this post because, being a software developer, I have typed the words “Hello world” countless times before, but this is the first time that I’ve actually meant it.
Hello world!
Hmmm…no answer.