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Recently I have been playing with C#/.NET programming. I’m quite impressed with the C# language, it is definitely an improvement on C++ and Java. One of my favourite features is get/set properties. As a FIT student at Monash you are entitled to use the Microsoft Visual Studio development tools. However if this does not […]

Recently iTunes Music Store launched in Australia, with Apple selling songs for $1.69 each (ouch!). While I haven’t tried the new Music Store, I have downloaded the latest iTunes to test out some of the other features. The podcast integration seems like a good feature, however my initial experience was that it was quite slow […]

In the latest issue of KDnuggets News Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro talks to Usama Fayyad in an interview series covering his time at Yahoo, data mining challenges, data mining start-up DigiMine, the resulting spin-off consulting company DMX Group and consulting lessons. I have to say, what a great interview. Fayyad points to lessons on data stratergy, consulting […]