Jamie Plenderleith's Blog

Visual Search Engine

Just another quick post about our Mugurdy Visual Search Engine. We've increased the capacity and speed a bit more (distributed file system over solid state drives, faster switch etc.) and tweaked some of the pages to work a little better. Some sample...

Published Wed, Aug 19 2009 18:49 by plenderj

Filed under: visual search engine png fashion xkcd trees asp.net vb.net

This is a test

This is a test, ignore me! Books http://www.mugurdy.com/search.aspx?q=books&p=1&r = Fashion http://www.mugurdy.com/search.aspx?q=fashion&p=1&r = Movies http://www.mugurdy.com/search.aspx?q=movies&p=1&r = Paris http://www.mugurdy...

Published Mon, Aug 17 2009 17:14 by plenderj

New Search Engine [Part 2]

Hi All, As some of you know we've been working on a new search engine. It's still in beta, and we haven't rolled out the complete list of initial features yet. If you'd like to have a look for yourself you can create a username and password...

Published Thu, Jul 30 2009 10:17 by plenderj

Mugurdy Search Engine

Hi All, We have been working on a search engine for about a year now and we're slowly opening it up to more people to gauge its scalability while it's in Beta. If you'd like to create a username and password for yourself to take a look please...

Published Fri, Jul 24 2009 17:10 by plenderj

Filed under: search engine

New features in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0

Last week I gave a talk on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. I'll be posting the slides from the talk shortly... In the meantime: www.softwaredujour.com

Published Mon, Jun 29 2009 10:14 by plenderj

Filed under: C# VB.Net Visual Studio 2010

Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

Go now! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=537da1cd-43e1-4799-88e7-a1da9166fb46

Published Wed, Mar 25 2009 19:13 by plenderj

Filed under: Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

Hosting365's Poxy Service

Something very irritating just happened. We have a rack server with Hosting365 running Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 etc. and have had it for over 2 years I'd say. For the last day or so our rack server has been down/unresponsive. As this also...

Published Fri, Aug 8 2008 3:58 by plenderj

Filed under: Rack, Rack365, Poxy, Hosting, Server, Ireland, Rackspace, Irish, Hosting365, Service

Software Developers & Timekeeping

If you know some piece of coding will only take about a half hour, then why does it inevitably take two days to complete?

Published Wed, Apr 16 2008 9:56 by plenderj

Recall a class' constructor from inside itself

Recently I had a situation where I needed to recall a class' constructor while inside the constructor. Suppose you have a class as follows, with the following code to instantiate it; Dim myTest As New Test(10, 20, 30) Class Test Private _x As Integer...

Published Thu, Sep 13 2007 13:32 by plenderj

Filed under: .net VB reflection system.reflection methodbase getcurrentmethod invoke object oriented constructor

Foray into Feisty Fawn helped me take back my MIPS

Foray into Feisty Fawn. I am software developer, and I write software for the .NET Framework / Windows platform. A short while ago I noticed that I was no longer doing development from home, so I didn't really need Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005...

Published Sat, Jul 14 2007 19:44 by plenderj

Filed under: Linux Feisty Fawn

Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 FQDN Woes

If you're having a problem with FQDNs (Fully Qualified Domain Names) in VSTS then read on... We installed VSTFS to one of our rack servers in a hosting company. The server is given a NetBIOS name by the hosting company. In DNS Server, we have configured...

Published Wed, Nov 8 2006 9:36 by plenderj

Filed under: VSTS VSTFS Visual Studio Team Development .NET HOSTS DNS FQDN NetBIOS

IRC Bot Source Code

Hello All :) I've had this code rattling around on my drive for a while and thought I'd share it with the world. The latest version of this bot is - for want of a better word - cool. It's got DCC, a command system, a configuration system,...

Published Mon, Oct 23 2006 18:21 by plenderj

Filed under: .NET VB IRC