It's a sad day...

I just read about about this on www.news.com.au. Steve Irwin the Crocodile man passed away today in a freak accident.. It's a very very sad day...

A Big Welcome

It's true, readify are not the only place in canberra that is trying to hire all the local bloggers.. Looks like Rory is coming to join Paul, John and Me

Welcome Rory...

A small gripe...

Not that you'll find many gripes coming from me, but here goes anyway..

Regular expressions. Or, more to the point, the fact that Visual Studio .Net has different syntax in the Find/Replace than the .Net Framework... C'mon... The tool that we use to write .Net code should use the same regular expression parser/engine as found in System.Text.RegularExpressions...

Anyway, that's my small gripe.. Maybe it will be fixed one day...

It's that time

For anybody who knows me, you'd know that I am an big Saints Fan. Probably not as much as Frank, but I still love them. In fact, I just love AFL in general. It's one of the few sports I actually follow and even play..

Tonight, as anybody in NSW and Queensland would know, It's State of Origin Game 1. It's one of the few games of Rugby League that I actually watch each year.

All I have to say is Go the Maroons!!!!

Another year of poor coverage

Living in a Canberra sure has some problems. One of the biggest problems is the AFL coverage. Channel 9 have the rights to the AFL with foxtel picking up the remainder of the games. The problem is that Channel 9 also have the rights to the Rugby League, which is always shown in preference to the AFL.
Tonight, the Saints take on Westcoast in the first game of the season. Unfortunately, channel 9 have decided to hold off the coverage until midnight so they can show the footy show..

No problems, I have foxtel.. I can just watch it there.. Nope.. it's not being shown until 11:30pm.
Turns out, Fox Footy is showing the game from 9:30 in NSW, QLD, SA, WA, yet ACT misses out...
Anyway, that's the end of my rant.. I can't wait until next year to see how much better the Channel 7/10 consortium do with their coverage...

ODP.Net Beta Released

Great news, oracle have just released a beta version of ODP.Net (oracle data provider for .Net) for .Net 2.0.

This release is awesome for the following reasons:

• Support for the Provider based Factories
• Connection String Builder
• Data Source Enumeration
• Schema Discovery
• VS2005 integration and support for debugging stored procedures

Best of all, ODP.Net should now work out of the box with Enterprise Library 2.0 without the need for writing provider factories and wrappers around the old Version..
Here are the links:
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