September 2008 Blog Posts
Just announced is the second Code Camp to be held in Christchurch, New Zealand. The date of the Code Camp is going to be November 1st, 2008 and again it is going to be held at the office of Trimble Navigation, 11 Birmingham Drive, Riccarton (where I work) Date: Saturday 1st November, Christchurch. 9am - 6pm Location: Trimble Navigation, 11 Birmingham Drive, Christchurch Cost: Free! (Lunch provided) Theme: Keeping It Real The sessions are designed to showcase .NET related tools and techniques that will be useful to...
I have updated my Blackberry Weather page to have a similar look to the main weather site at http://weather.crowe.co.nz The image below fits perfectly on my Blackberry 8310 - Screen Size is 320 * 240 Pixels And here is now it looks inside the Blackberry 8310. The URL for the BB weather is http://weather.crowe.co.nz/bb The image that is downloaded is 6KB so small enough that it does not consume your bandwidth and $$$$
* UPDATED : Sep 15, 2008 to include HyperBac for SQL Server in the comparison results. SQL Server 2008 now supports compression when backing up your databases. But note this is only included in the Enterprise edition which is a pity. Note: Though creating compressed backups is supported only in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and later, every SQL Server 2008 or later edition can restore a compressed backup. Note: The tests was made on a low end test machine hence the actual throughput is not good but the overall results are important as percentages In...
The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to: Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications; Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables; Web site content handling; Controlling access to web site content. The Microsoft URL rewrite module includes these key features: ...
The small web site I started about 6 months back has been getting quite a bit of work done to it over the last few weeks. With the help of Simon (who provides the data for the site) I have updated it to include a forecast, a web cam image, history, and charts. The history goes back until around the start of 2007 and the charts at this time are for a whole month only. The main screen has not changed a lot but it does have a new chart that plots the wind direction of the previous...
Panoramio has now more than 2 million photos online (October 10th, 2006 there was 50,000) . When you are browsing around Google Earth and Google Maps you may seen little pics of the areas that you are looking at and most of these come from Panoramio. Panoramio allows users to upload their photos and then these photos can be (if liked) included in the Google index. I personally have two photos included - one from Dubrovnik in Croatia and another from the Moroccan Desert. http://www.panoramio.com/user/1946508 I had not been to the site for a month or two...
I have used Developer Express products for years and years, going back to the days of Delphi 3 and possible before. I really love the controls, they are nice looking and provide a lot of additional functionality over the default controls included with Windows Forms and ASP.NET They are now offering a set of 60 components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET for free. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 are fully supported The controls consist of their xtraEditors which includes TextEdit, CalcEdit, DateEdit, ButtonEdit, ColorEdit, FontEdit,PictureEdit,MemoEdit + lots more. ...
I have been updating my weather site lately and have included charts to display data for each month. I decided to use the free Google chart API for most of the charts since they are easy and quite cool. For those who have not seen the Google Chart API see - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ Here are some live examples of what you can do with the chart API http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=220x100&chd=s:Hellob&chl=May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chd=s:pqokeYONOMEBAKPOQVTXZdecaZcglprqxuux393ztpoonkeggjp&chco=676767&chls=4.0,3.0,0.0& chs=200x125&chxt=x,y&chxl=0:|1|2|3|4|5|1:|0|50|100&chf=c,lg,0,76A4FB,1,ffffff,0|bg,s,EFEFEF Right enough of the Google API - go check...
Some background I guess first off you will be asking what is ClientRaw.txt? Well this is a file format that a particular software package (Weather Display - http://www.weather-display.com) uses to represent weather data. It is a space delimited file, basically undocumented except for a great tool available at http://www.tnetweather.com/wd-parser.php So basically this is a simple example of how the data can look (truncated) : 12345 0.0 0.0 273 6.28 85 1027.7 0.0 9.8 514.2 0.000 0.000 17.1 52 0.0 1 0.0 0 0 2.6 -100.0 255.0 0.0 -100.0 -100.0 -100.0
So this Weather Display software creates...