Author Archives: spgennard

Zero Day – Mark E. Russinovich

Posted on April 10, 2011 by spgennard

Just finished reading “Zero Day” by Mark E. Russinovich. The author is a fellow at Microsoft and well know in the computer circles for also being the author of various tools from SysInternals a company he used to own. The … Continue reading →

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You can make money without doing evil…

Posted on March 21, 2011 by spgennard

Well this is what google says in their corporate philosophy but I seriously doubting this. If you are not aware of the most recent cuffle about google, let explain and perhaps rant a little. Google; in an attempt to prevent … Continue reading →

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One Billion Reasons..

Posted on March 9, 2011 by spgennard

What can a company do with a 1 Billion USD? Well if you are Microsoft you can use this or more to ensure one of your competitors becomes a OEM vendor! This is exactly what is said Microsoft did to … Continue reading →

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New Gadget

Posted on February 21, 2011 by spgennard

Over the last couple of years I have not been getting on too well with my second generation iPod Touch but it has been a bit of a love hate relationship… I love it when works well with my mac’s … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Windows Azure

Posted on January 12, 2011 by spgennard

As someone has been working with Windows Azure since its early days I understand how much effort it takes to get started with the platform. Luckily over the last couple of Windows Azure SDK releases the documentation is started to … Continue reading →

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A good new years gift…

Posted on January 9, 2011 by spgennard

My day job keeps me housed in Visual Studio 2010/Windows, so for my out of hours development I feel I need a change, so for many years I have been a home mac and/or linux user; anyway I have used … Continue reading →

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Michael’s very own “Getting Started with Visual COBOL”

Posted on January 4, 2011 by spgennard

Michael Burgun over at his own blog space has started blogging about using Visual COBOL… Its worth a look as having meet Michael last year I can honestly say he is a very knowledgeable and experienced chap, so I am … Continue reading →

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DNS – Tweaks take 2

Posted on December 21, 2010 by spgennard

Although I have good results tweaking my DNS it appears it can have its side affects if you have a very fast internet connection and are doing some serious streaming… have a read of the following quoted article. If I … Continue reading →

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AzureKit and COBOL

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

AzureKit is a nice piece of source code released on CodePlex by Mark Rendle. The AzureKit makes life much easier for creating, searching, deleting elements in your Azure’s Table Storage. My idea was that if the AzureKit was easy enough … Continue reading →

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DNS – Tweaks

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

DNS speed can really affect your home router either for the better or worse.. I use a open source bit of software called namebench to periodically verify that I am using the most performant/reliable DNS server. Take a peek, it … Continue reading →

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