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Opera 11 is broken

Opera upgraded itself to version 11 today when I restarted it. What can I say, it’s absolutely terrible. I’ve loved Opera for years now, but this update has ruined some fundamental things. Mouse gestures which I use all the time

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Fully internal Shuttle SX48P2 Watercooling

I recently took “the plunge” and decided to watercool my PC. It is a project I have wanted to do for a long time – but the mixture of water and electronics has always put me off… In reality it

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DDD South West Video Showcase

DDD South West was held on 23rd May 2009 at Queen’s College in Taunton. I was part of the DDDSW team – my role being to create a promotional video to showcase the event. As such, all of my hard

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Is this a .NET Framework error validating XDocument against an XML schema?

I spent a large portion of my time yesterday wrestling with validation errors for an XML document – a document which I was positive should be validating correctly. After a lot of fumbling around with options, various incantations of xsi,

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Xml Schema as an Embedded Resource

Today I ran into an interesting problem trying to validate an XDocument against an XmlSchemaSet.  The complication arose from the fact that the master schema referenced (<import>ed) multiple additional schemas. Initially I tried copying all the schema files to the

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Website back up & backups

My website has been down for a few days because my server provider was hacked and around 50% of their servers were wiped clean.  Unfortunately mine was in the half that got wiped.  Also unfortunately, my backups were somewhat dated,

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