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First Ultra-Marathon Hitout - The North Face 100 2010

Background I've never been close to a good runner. Growing up around Cronulla, water sports (particularly kayaking) were much more appealing than running, and having built a bigger physique, I was drafted into the tight-head prop position as a rugby...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 9:23 by nick

Filed under: OT
Week 24 Photos

Stuggling, but only 3 weeks to go now...

Published Tue, Oct 6 2009 9:09 by nick

Filed under: Photos
Visual C++ SP1 Sample

If you've downloaded SP1 of Visual Studio 2008, and are looking through the Visual C++ samples trying to locate anything to do with TR1 language extensions or the MFC Feature Pack, you'll notice they aren't there. The SP1 samples are avialable...

Published Wed, Apr 1 2009 22:48 by nick

Filed under: .NET
My first book cover - Introduction to Psychology, 12th Edition by Dennis Coon

Posting high-resolution photos on your web-site brings in the occassional request for permission to use the photos is some publication. I've had requests before from Israel Ministry of Agriculture to use camel shots from Broome in one of their publications...

Published Sat, Nov 1 2008 5:36 by nick

Filed under: Photos
Cronulla to Kiama

Over the weekend of 25-26 Oct, I paddled from Cronulla to Kiama with an overnight at Corrimal. After really bad weather mid-week that culminated with 4m swells and 40 knot winds from the south on Wednesday, it looked like the conditions weren't going...

Published Tue, Oct 28 2008 23:19 by nick

Filed under: Sea kayaking
Sea kayaking with a GPS

I recently purchased a Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx for use as both an in-car unit and a sea kayaking navigation aid. While navigation on the current routes I'm doing in pretty easy (essenitally, keep the land on left while heading north), its good to track...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 0:30 by nick

Filed under: Sea kayaking
ASP.NET MVC at SDNUG on Thursday

After 6 months buried in a banking project, I'm emerging from the other end with a presentation this Thursday at SDNUG on ASP.NET MVC . Full details on the SDNUG site - if you're in Sydney, come along and be wowed.

Published Mon, Jun 2 2008 6:17 by nick

Filed under: .NET
Handango not posting negative reviews

A couple of weeks ago I purchased the eGlass BookReader from Handango, partly because of the problem with WMDC that I spoke about in my last post . The reader was pretty poor, particularly in its reading experience of PDF books. In reflow mode, you have...

Published Fri, Nov 23 2007 23:49 by nick

Filed under: OT
WM6 to Vista Sync Error 0x8503001c - Fixed by going back to WMDC 6.0

I had the frustrating experience of having a new WM6 device ( HTC Touch ) developing a problem synching to a new Vista machine. The Touch was in its third week of a synch relationship with Vista, so it could be hoped that honeymoon bliss was still lingering...

Published Thu, Nov 15 2007 7:43 by nick

Filed under: .NET
Dealing with linked servers in VSTS Database Pro

Working with linked servers in VSTS Database Pro can be a bit painful, especially when the linked server is a production server that should be (and typically is) inaccessible from developer's machines. If the appropriate linked server settings aren't...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2007 11:05 by nick

Filed under: .NET
A few quick tips for using SQL Server 2005 Linked Servers

I've just completed a short,rushed project that involved moving data from one SQL Server 2005 in a DMZ to another SQL Server 2005 server inside the network. The database in the DMZ is deployed on a per-web site basis, and there can be many copies...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 4:30 by nick

Filed under: .NET
Filling in a technical support web form, and getting a response- well done DiskView!

A couple of months before Vista was release, I purchased a copy of DiskView to track down where all my hard disk space was being eaten up on a Windows XP install (it turned out to be several multi-gigabyte files that DivX converter had left lying around...

Published Fri, Oct 5 2007 10:53 by nick

Filed under: OT
New CodeGuru article up

This months offering looks at upgrading an old MFC application to take advantage of Vista. Some months the article come quickly (less than 4 hours). This month, it took a couple of days. The documentation for the MFC 9 updates is still pretty minimal...

Published Wed, Sep 5 2007 4:43 by nick

Filed under: .NET
In Perth tomorrow night

The website is up to date now - I'm in Perth tomorrow night for the Code Generation presentation (if APEC hasn't caused the too many problems with my flight)

Published Wed, Sep 5 2007 4:40 by nick

Filed under: .NET
Week 23 Pics

After a long break, I've finally finished the gallery for Week 23 of my six month trip around Australia in 2005. As expected, the Tassie portion of the trip produced a lot of shots, and it took a long time to go through them. 15 shots in this gallery...

Published Fri, Aug 17 2007 3:57 by nick
Printing a calendar for Christmas Presents

Last year I used 13 of the photos I took from my 6 month trip around Australia in 2005 to make a calendar for a Christmas present for family and friend. The print company I used was Kainos Print from the ACT, and the actual order form for the calendar...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2007 5:49 by nick

Filed under: Photos
Visual C++ 2008 - CodeGuru Articles Up

Its hard to believe that its been over three years since I started doing the C++ column at CodeGuru (and still no missed columns). I plan to keep going to beat Kate Gregory's record of 42 articles, at which point in time I'll demand to get the...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2007 5:23 by nick
First INETA Speaker Bureau Gig coming up - Perth 6 Sep

The site's not updated yet , but I'm happy to confirm that I'll be in Perth on 6 Sep to present my Code Generation in the Real World talk. The blurb for the talk is: Real-world Code Generationby Nick Wienholt There is a lot more to real-world...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2007 4:28 by nick

Filed under: .NET
SOA in the Real World Book from Microsoft Architecture Group

Released a couple of weeks ago, SOA in the Real World is a good summary of the guidance that Microsoft has been putting out for the last 5 years. As my main task in the current gig is the writing a document of integration stategy and then working with...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2007 3:47 by nick

Filed under: .NET
MSDN Subscription - Why isn't there a cheaper download-only offering?

As part of the MSDN Subscription offering, a box of discs is delivered most months with updated versions of Microsoft software. Because a single DVD has many products on it, the disc churn rate is reasonably high. In addition to the disks that come in...

Published Mon, Jul 16 2007 2:19 by nick

Filed under: .NET

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First Ultra-Marathon Hitout - The North Face 100 2010

Week 24 Photos

Visual C++ SP1 Sample

My first book cover - Introduction to Psychology, 12th Edition by Dennis Coon

Cronulla to Kiama

Sea kayaking with a GPS

ASP.NET MVC at SDNUG on Thursday

Handango not posting negative reviews

WM6 to Vista Sync Error 0x8503001c - Fixed by going back to WMDC 6.0

Dealing with linked servers in VSTS Database Pro

A few quick tips for using SQL Server 2005 Linked Servers

Filling in a technical support web form, and getting a response- well done DiskView!

New CodeGuru article up

In Perth tomorrow night

Week 23 Pics

Printing a calendar for Christmas Presents

Visual C++ 2008 - CodeGuru Articles Up

First INETA Speaker Bureau Gig coming up - Perth 6 Sep

SOA in the Real World Book from Microsoft Architecture Group

MSDN Subscription - Why isn't there a cheaper download-only offering?