I finally decided to change the Look of the blog a little, this is just an initial start, if you've got any comments on this current change or would like to make some suggestions, drop me a comment or email!

Chris Auld announced today that he is a MSDN Regional Director. Congrats Chris, well deserved.
See his post here. The 'Red Shoe' is getting bigger!

If you're wondering what the story is with the 'Red Shoe' read his blog for info :)

Right, so I've setup myself VS 2005 this week finally, while I haven't dug hard in development yet. Here is my first error message encounter in VS 2005.

Here's how I got it, I click the help menu, then choose Search, and bingo, I get the Index Search window as well as this message. Anyone know why this occurs or how to get rid of it?

Normally people would introduce themselves right when they start blogging in their very first post. I realise I haven't done that, well there is no real reason for not doing so.

So here it is now.

Probably some of you out there know me, but for those who dont.

Here's a bit of info:

I'm currently in my last semester at the University of Canterbury finishing off my B.Com, I am just finishing off my degree points this year as I have already completed my major last year in Information Systems and Technology. Other than that, I have been involved with the .NET community for a little over two years now, thanks to working as a Student Ambassador at the university. This was how I initially got exposed to .NET and I have been developing an increasing interest in the platform since then.

I have not yet had extensive experience in .NET simply because none of the courses we have at the university teach much if any of it. Will hopefully get more experience other than my own study someday. Perhaps through one of Microsoft Certifications.

For more info about me, feel free to contact me

I've just finished updating my blog to dasblog 1.7

More posts are coming soon

For those who like to be upto date with tech news ...etc like myself. I've come accross the VS 2005 news blog today, and decided it is worth adding to my Blogroll!

If you haven't come accross it before... here's the url: http://blogs.msdn.com/vs2005news/

A question came up today on the NZ.NET mailing list about using 2 web.config files for admin authentication and user authentication using one Form for both. Nic blogs about an article on how do deal with this, see his blog here

Right, so for quite a while, I had VS 2002/2003 running along with SQL 2000 on my machine. Now, I have the DVD’s for both VS .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 which leaves me one step away from upgrading my machine ( I don’t have a DVD reader yet!). I expect to go buy one very soon in order to get myself setup for the future of Development!!