Cubeworks, where I am currently contracting, are looking to recruit an ASP.NET / C# web developer.



I'm really enjoying working here, which is why I'm letting you know about the role. Full job details on Wired Sussex.

Monica.

My wife mentioned in passing that she listened to Woman's Hour on Radio 4 this morning, and there was an article about the London girl geek dinners, interviewing the organiser and hostess, the lovely Sarah Blow. I thought Sarah came across very well, and it shows what a good job she's done, not only organising the London events, but also being involved with starting girl geek dinners in other areas.

Eileen Brown, who I've known of for years, but never met, was interviewed too, and spoke about women's roles in the IT industry.

Despite the piece being slightly patronising ("it may only be a matter of time before the world sees the first female Bill Gates"), it was a good overview to raise the profile both of the event, and of women in technology. You can listen to it on the BBC website for the next 6 days, just shy of 15 minutes into the show.

Sometime between leaving work last night and arriving at work this morning, my laptop ceased to work. A hard disk check in the BIOS proved what I had feared - the drive was broken.

A couple of good points - firstly, it's still under warranty, even though I bought it second hand, and HP are going to send me a new drive. Secondly, I have a pretty good backup system, so I shouldn't have lost anything too important. When I finish coding something, I check it into subversion, and ftp the whole subversion database onto a web server.

Here's a gentle reminder for you, should you need one, to sort out your own backup system. If you lost your hard drive, would your digital life be recoverable?

There are still some tickets left for the geek dinner with Aral Balkan on 28th November; get yours now before they go!

I just noticed this in FogBugz (v6 beta) after setting the elapsed time to 3.75 hours, i.e. half a day:



This seems to be a simple rounding issue, but it still looks funny.

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To make Visual Studio start faster, change your Visual Studio shortcuts to have the parameter /nosplash. Much better.