You know your hotel Internet access is slow when . . .

. . . it takes eight seconds to display the Google homepage.

Palindrome Finding Algorithms

It seems like a recent video on MSDN’s Channel 9 has folks doing their own palindrome implementations, being a good little lemming, I did my own. I’ve decided that I am going to use my implementation as the basis for a demo I’ll probably do tomorrow on profiling applications.

Hopefully if I can push enough load through it I might be able to find something to optimise (thankfully I have a backup plan).

Iconkits.com

Dave Caolo has linked to a really cool icon retail site. I’m tempted to buy one or two of these kits for a Windows Forms app that I am working on at the moment. I must be a closet Mac user because I am drawn to the glassy ones over the XP-style ones.

Paul Graham Essays

Blogging this so that I don’t loose it.

CodeReview is Up

I’ve finally gotten around to setting up my WikiWikiWeb (thanks to FlexWiki). The main driver behind setting up the Wiki was to start collecting a series of standard “code reviews” that can be used over and over again. I made an example post here on my blog about checking for null before cleaning up resources. I have recreated that content on the Wiki and made reference to Omer’s comments.

.NET Geek Weekend

OK, so I have this idea. I want to pick a regional centre somewhere between Sydney and Melbourne (as the major population centres) and arrange a weekend (arrive late Friday night, leave Sunday afternoon) where .NET geeks can come together for some adhoc technical presentations and knowledge sharing.

I’ve started a Wiki page on my new Wiki (yay!) to help flesh out the idea. If you are interested put your name here and help get it organised. I really want it to be grass roots which is why I am posting up about it here, if you have something to say, then contribute!