Mark Pearl

November, 2010

Examination Preparation for COS201

Chapters Covered in Prescribed Book The following are the chapter headings for the subject, which should give you an idea of what is covered in this subject…

October, 2010

TFS in Azure – The highlight of the keynote at PDC

So, while I didn’t get to attend PDC2010, I did get to watch it live at the Microsoft Offices in Johannesburg. It had all the usual things I was expecting, Windows Phone 7 Demo’s, Azure Demo’s and Balmer giving a great pounding impersonation.

C# If Else Shortcut

Recently I participated in a local user group challenge which involved submitting a project that solved a problem with the fewest bytes. My end solution resulted in one long line of code that at first glance seemed like a series of symbols and letters. While I wouldn’t use such an...

VB6 and MMMPack Workaround

So, I recently put up a post on using the MMMPack tool to help package old VB6 projects so that they work in Vista and Windows 7. I am a real fan of this tool because it saves me a ton of time.\

TechEd South Africa

So it has been a great few days at TechEd South Africa. There were a few things that stood out.

Still no DotNetRocks Mug – but GWB Shirt Rocks!

So it has been almost two years since I had my letter read out on Dot Net Rocks. Richard & Carl promised to send me a mug – it was the going to be the highlight of the quarter and bragging rights in the office… but… the mug never came…...

September, 2010

More QT4 (Assignment 3 Question 1)

So, the last few days I have been finishing my summaries of my Programming Contemporary Concepts course. While it has been interesting being exposed to a new programming language, I found the actual course a bit framework specific, and not to contemporary at all. Needless to say, in the quest...

6’ Code GIT Challenge – GET GIT

It has been some time since I have had an hour or so to do a decent blog post, and finally today I sat down and decided I would just have to make the time. I am itching for some F# programming, but decided to first attempt the 6 Degree’s...

Ordered my .Net RFID Reader

Today I finally succumbed to temptation and ordered my Trossen Robotics RFID reader starter kit. I am looking forward to playing around with the device, a few ideas already came to mind, but we shall see just how easy it is to use.

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