Charles Vallance

I’ve got myself a brand spanking new VPS. w00t! So with some help of the ‘oh so clever’ infamous Claw @ Signify I’ve got my DNS server up & running and everything seems to be going just super*. Along with the new VPS I’ve decided to upgrade my blog from Wordpress to Subtext. Which, surprisingly, wasn’t that easy consider Wordpress doesn’t natively export to BlogML (there really should be standard between all blog engines). Anyway, I got an export working using the BlogML project on CodePlex along with some additional hacking of the resulting XML file. So...

Just updated Wordpress and the final step in the upgrade process is posting a new post about upgrading it. Hmmm... maybe another time, there are better things afoot! MS MVC Code Scott Hanselman is teasing me. He's posted the source code, DevConnections and PNPSummit MVC Demos Source Code, from the MVC demos that he and others have performed. It obviously doesn't work or compile *sigh*. I'm quite curious how the validation is going to work... so far I haven't seen any examples of it. He says there will be a CTP very soon... still can't wait! :-)...

Ahhh... now I remember, I've got a blog! I knew I would find it hard to post to this thing, so hard to find the time! Maybe now the ski season is over (bring on next year!) I can find a bit more time. Castle As I have posted before, I have been experimenting with the castle stack for a little while now and I really enjoy it. Although, at the same time I just feel something is a miss... Maybe it was my decision to go with brail and the debugging nightmare that came with it....

I've recently become the proud owner of an old server that my mother doesn't require anymore. It's nothing too fancy at all, just a Xeon 2.4 with 512mb. But its good fun none the less! :-) Currently I've got it set up with Win2K3 with SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition for my developments and testing. Also, I've moved my SVN server onto it, and my previous post about setting up SVN server on XP came in really handy. This is all good because it's taking a bit of the load off my XP box which is getting a...

Wow, it's been a while since my last post! I've been a busy man in between work and roadies up the mountain. I knew I would find it hard to find time for this fandangled blogging thing. :-) Anywho, thought I might just knock one or two off before I head off on holiday. Where am I going you ask...? I'm off to Wanaka for 6 days skiing! Yowl! Can't wait... I even heard that shapeshifter is going to be playing down there... might have to get my dancing shoes on and bust out a two foot stomp! ;-)...

I was reading a blog entry from Mr Rowan Simpson (of trademe fame) about an idea he had and I think he's onto a winner... From his site: The problem It is very difficult to ensure that all of the page in a large and dynamic web sites contain valid HTML, especially as changes are made to those pages over time. ... The Solution While developing and testing a site, or even just while browsing, we typically visit a large number of different...

This is insane. Jamie Pierre set the world record for cliff hucking at Grand Targhee Resort - 245 foot, 4 seconds of air time, blew a hole 6 feet deep and walked away with a cut lip. Visit the Tetron Gravity Research page to see an extended version and invest in the 'Anomaly' dvd. Technorati Tags: skiing,general

FullCodePress is a competition rather similar to the 48Hours film competition that is running in New Zealand at the moment. Difference being that it's a website and your team has half the time. From the site: On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns. Sounds like a great idea, but I can't help but wonder whether 24 hours is going to be long enough... Technorati Tags: general,web...

Ok. After a couple of months of internal deliberation, I've decided to start a blog. I really don't know where I'm going to find the time to keep it updated, so expect posts to be sporadic at best. Although primarily a technical blog, I will occasionally tell you about other stuff that interests me and random happenings in my life. On that note I'll start my blog off with a tale of public humiliation from last night. Don't actually know whether that's such a good idea or not. Oh well. I went to see a comedian that was...