The Mailowl Scrolls

At the last 27Dinner in Johannesburg I got into an interesting discussion about the difference between Nerds and Geeks. Previously I had always thought the name was interchangeable but according to Kerryn Whitehead, a geologist, “The difference between nerds and geeks is technology”.
Geeks, apparently, shun daylight to spend all their time with their PCs […]

Boing Boing: Understanding Games: short interactive videos on game design
Understanding Games is a series of short animation/games that set out to explain how and why video games work
(tags: gamedev)

ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site : Videos
Lots and lots of ASP.NET and AJAX videos
(tags: web2.0 development)

Expresso Regular Expression Development Tool
Tool for testing Regular Expressions
(tags: […]

Pandora Internet Radio - Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio
US ONLY: Pandora allows you to create your own radio stations
(tags: music web2.0)

CardSpace Claim Types - Identity Schemas Wiki
CardSpace Claim Types for self-issued cards
(tags: development membership)

MonoRail :: Castle Project
(tags: web development)

ConnectionStrings.com - Forgot that connection string? You will find it right here!
(tags: development)

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition User Instances
(tags: development sqlserver)

Identity: Secure Your ASP.NET Apps And WCF Services With Windows CardSpace — MSDN Magazine, April 2007
Associating Cards with an account in your ASP.NET website
(tags: development membership)

Writing A Custom Membership Provider for your ASP.NET 2.0 Web […]

PopCap Developer Program
(tags: gamedev)

ScottGu’s Blog : New “Orcas” Language Feature: Extension Methods
(tags: development)

Bundy’s .NET and BizTalk Server Blog : Embedding IronPython to validate data using scripts
(tags: python)

What’s this? My previous post was just a bunch of links? This doesn’t replace blogging; what the hell is going on?
It’s called Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is the marketing term and Web 2.0 buzzword for the idea of sharing bookmarks and links; and the service I’m using is del.icio.us.
“del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — […]

Value vs Reference at C# Online.NET (CSharp-Online.NET)
(tags: development)

Storm Telecom | Voice and Data Provider | VoIP
(tags: serviceprovider)

ZGameEditor : ZGameEditor
The tool for writing 64kb games
(tags: development)

PopCap Games - Peggle
(tags: games)

Federation Sample
(tags: identity)

I would like to thank Matt for finding an alternative weather gadget for Windows Vista as I get a “Service not available” message from the default gadget.
Besides being able to get the weather for Johannesburg, South Africa; I also like the gadget’s ability to allow me to pick a weather station within the city I […]