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I finally got round to creating a google map of the dive sites I went to during our Honeymoon 3 years ago in the amazing Maldives. Check it out: View Maldives Honeymoon - Dive Sites in a larger map Pretty cool. If anyone wants any advice or info on diving in the Maldives, leave a comment :)

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My friend and colleague Dave Hope just had a FaceTime video chat with our new iPhone 4's, and during the call we did the geeky thing of pointing the camera of one iPhone at the screen of another, causing a cool infinity effect! See screenshot below: Pointless? - Yes. iPhone 4 FaceTime first? Possibly!

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I've been cycling to and from work 2 days a week for over 6 months now, and have really been enjoying it. Today I decided to introduce some tech to the experience, and downloaded the app iMapMyRide (Free edition). I started the route recording, and just left the phone in my shorts pocket safely buttoned up. I was pretty impressed with the results - I was seriously expecting it to not result in

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I just came back from a brilliant 2 week holiday with family and friends in Mallorca where I managed to sneak in 2 dives with Skualo, based in Ca'n Picafort. The dives were both in the small fishing village of Cala Ratjada, based on the north east coast. Follow the link below to see my photos at picassa:

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A video of my two dives in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote. I dived with Rubicon Diving, at two dive sites, Twin Pipes and Flamingo Wall. In this video our dive guide Rich shows us some surprising fish and shark encounters.

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Chris from Noko has just posted an article on using SharePoint with a web content management system, specifically Alterian CMC SharePoint Connector:http://blog.noko.co.uk/2009/10/combining-sharepoint-and-web-content.htmlFTA:"We thought we’d share some of our experiences of how the SharePoint Connector for Alterian CMC (previously called Immediacy CMS) is being used and the value it can deliver,

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2 of 2 videos from my scuba diving in Mallorca. This was such an awesome dive site. First we swim into the cave, holding bright LED torches to help us see. Then during the dive we surface in an air bubble in the cave, which can be seen in the video as it appears as an upside down puddle. Then we descend back down, through a thermocline of cold water which makes the footage appear blurry. Then we

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1 of 2 videos from my scuba diving in Mallorca. This dive was in El Toro with my mate Andre Tanguy, we saw some pretty cool fish including Triggerfish and a massive shoal of Barracuda.

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On Thursday and Friday last week I attended with James Melville a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) SCRUM training course led by Gabrielle Benefield and Jeff Sutherland in London.Both Gabrielle and Jeff are excellent trainers, and have a wealth of knowledge and experience that they were only too happy to call on when answering the delegates multitude array of tough questions. They've worked for some

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So, practically everyone on the internet is talking about Google Chrome right now, and I'm writing this article using it.My findings are that it's really fast to use, the interface although slightly weird in the blue hue makes sense with it's simplicity and tabs being above the address bar, and the install was a dream. Also, simply count how long it takes to load - faster than Firefox, faster

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Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has just been released, you can get it from here:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspxThis beta is being reccomended not just for developers, but regular web users too.Some new features include:AcceleratorsAccelerators let you complete your everyday browsing activities more quickly and even discover new services. Start mapping, translating

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Today .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 was released by Microsoft.Download links:Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (also includes .NET 3.5 SP1).NET 3.5 SP1 Standalone InstallerThis is a significant Service Pack - it includes Dynamic Data which I'm personally very excited about and currently in development with (No more Virtual Machine development environment :) ) It also includes Data Services (codenamed Astoria) and

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After attending NxtGenUG Fest 08 last week in my old office at Microsoft UK HQ, Thames Valley Park, I was particularly excited to hit the ground running with a topic presented by Dave Sussman, ASP.NET Dynamic Data.This is a new feature in the yet to be released SP1 for .NET 3.5. (A beta is available here - this is pre-release so use on a VM or spare machine)Dynamic Data is a scaffolding framework

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On Monday I needed to split up a WCF service I had written for SharePoint into multiple services, one for Document Libraries, one for Lists, and another 'Common' service which has some standard methods like Ping() and GetVersion().It didn't make sense to me to have all this functionality for lists, document libraries and common stuff all in one service, yet I didn't want to have to host 3

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iLounge have added a useful article on the new iPhone 3G.I will be upgrading simply because I'm unable to say no to shiny new gadgets, especially when they combine: Apple, Internet, Email, Development Opportunities & Phone! - It's simply impossible for me to not buy this device! Yes - I know, I'm reminded how geeky this is by Mrs Meineck often!Image: Courtesy of AppleLooking at it with a more

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What happens when you remove the boot volume and re-insert? - Nothing :) - Windows continues to run right through until the HDD is put back in.My colleague Dave Cromar was asking me how to remove the hard disk from his laptop (HDD due to be replaced today) so I went round to show him. He had already removed the screws, so I just slid it out of the chassis of the laptop - it was that point where I

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Just read Peter Bright's article on a Windows user converting to Mac, but from a very well balanced and unique developer perspective.I have to say that placing myself in mainly the .NET Framework, my experience of Windows behind the scenes isn't as tarnished with bad experience, but from my general usage of Windows I can really see where Peter is coming from.It seems like Microsoft's

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