Adding airport locations to VirtualEarth, Part 2

I went to Remix today and found out that the well regarded VirtualEarth brand is now known as ‘Bing Maps‘. I prefer Virtual Earth, but Microsoft were right to bring all their online services together as Bing, if only for the fact it makes it easier to explain.
Yesterday I added 6,000 pushpins to a layer [...]

Sybase to SQL Server Migration Powerpoint Presentation Available

Greg Low has published all the presentations from the SQL Down Under Code Camp in 2008, including a short one by myself
http://www.sqldownunder.com/Sessions2008/tabid/299/Default.aspx
The main part was the demo of a simple migration which unfortunately is too large to include.

Displaying HTML text in Silverlight

I’m displaying text in my Silverlight 3 application that is using HTML markup, for example: 
うんどうかい で <b> いち </b> い に なった よ
the <b> tag makes the letter bold, but there is no standard text control in the Silverlight toolbox to process this as rich text such as:
うんどうかい で いち い に なった [...]

Formatting Code in WordPress

I havn’t blogged for a while.. possibly for the fact that it was a bit painful to get my code to come up correctly.
Well, here is a test post

/// <summary>
/// Just a test
/// </summary>
public interface IBlobDriveObject
[...]

Yet another iPhone post

Since the internet has so little discussion about the iPhone, I obviously have to write something
I have been a long time Windows Mobile developer.. all the way from PocketPC 2000 devices to Windows Mobile 6. (and I still think the origional Compaq iPaq is one of the most cool devices you can hold [...]

New development box

Its been quiet, but I am back with a new custom development rig, Vital Stats:
CPU : Q9400
MB:   Gigabyte 45-DS4
RAM:  OCZ Platinum CC4 8GB
HD:   3 x Samsung 500GB  Sata 2 (RAID 5 configuration)
GPU:  NVidia 9800GTX+

Add my new 24” Widescreen Ultrasharp Dell monitor, and I have an acceptable development platform
I remember back at college I would dual [...]

Should I migrate from Sybase to SQL Server?

I’m giving a presentation this weekend at SQL CodeCamp about Sybase to SQL Server migrations. I’ve been looking into the background of Sybase in order to give reasons ‘why’ you should do it, and found that as with all technologies there are passionate supporters.
Sybase ASE is a good product from what I can tell. I [...]

Error in Managed .NET Sybase Provider

Getting this error with your Sybase .NET driver? There is limited discussion that I found via Google, so I thought I would mention the solution here:
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ERROR Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at at Sybase.Data.AseClient.Unmanaged.ExecuteCommand(IntPtr pCommandHandle)
at Sybase.Data.AseClient.AseCommand.Execute()
at Sybase.Data.AseClient.AseCommand._ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior commandBehavior)
at Sybase.Data.AseClient.AseCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader()
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To fix this, contact Sybase and [...]

New Sydney ALT.NET User Group

Sydney has a few user groups which are great to show off Microsoft products and API’s. Still, Mich Denny has pointed to the new Sydney ALT.NET user group for those subjects that fall outside of the mainstream domain.
In particular, I’m looking forward to see RhinoMocks in action.
There are a lot of great ideas that don’t [...]

Google Chrome great for your Google Applications

I don’t actually like downloading anything that isn’t Microsoft.. I’m a certified MS fanboy.
I hate iTunes and the many services it installed in the background. I hate Flash as a main reason my browser crashes. I hate anything that tries to install a Google/Yahoo/Whatever toolbar into my browser. I really hate any software that needs [...]