March 1009

Why must VPN be such an issue in 2010

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For some reason (actually I’m not sure there is a reason) the company I work for have decided that they’re going to use Juniper for their VPN. The problem with this is that, at home, I have 64bit Windows 7. Up until quite recently Juniper did not support Windows 7 and they didn’t support 64bit! Yeah I know that does seem a little… slow to react. 64 OSs have been around for quite some time, and being a developer I’m drawn towards the shiny new things, not to mention the fact that you need 64 windows in order to use more than 3GB of ram and with 4 or more Visual Studio instances open at once, plus a bunch of other applications that ram gets used up quickly. So I’ve been using 64bit for some time. Add in to that the fact that Windows 7 has been available for some time and you can see why I’m of the opinion that Juniper isn’t the greatest solution in the world. [More]

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November 0930

Computer hacker facing US trial – Gary McKinnon

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I don’t have much to do with hackers besides writing code that should keep them out of websites, as far as I know none of the sites I’ve written have attracted any attention from hackers – I suspect they’ve got their sites set on more interesting targets. However the recent decision by the British government to extradite computer hacker Gary McKinnon upset me enough that I’m posting about it here to vent my feelings. [More]

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August 0928

DataReaders vs DataTables

I feel like I’m in the middle of a bit of a ‘fight’ at work at the moment. Basically I don’t like the way things are done at work and I’m trying to change them for the better. [More]

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June 0902

Embedded resources in VB.Net

I’m a C# developer but at the company I work for all development is to be done using VB.Net; I like this because it means I get to (re)learn another language. I say relearn because I started out as a classical ASP developer using VBScript so much of the syntax is familiar to me, using VB.Net is a bit like putting on an warm jumper that’s been forgotten at the back of the wardrobe for a while (nice and cosy). [More]

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May 0927

Visual Studio 2010 beta broke my websites

Visual Studio 2010 caused me a brief headache after installing - all of my local websites started throwing YSOD's! [More]

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