Ross Hawkins - January 2011 Entries

January 2011 Entries

Time issues when switching between OSX/Windows

For the past few months I’ve been experiencing some weird behaviour on my Macbook when I switch between OSX/Windows 7 via Bootcamp. The date and time was jumping all over the place despite the regional settings being correct for each OS. I don’t switch too often as I stay in native Windows most of the time (much to the annoyance of OSX purists), but last week it annoyed me enough to try and find the fix. It was pretty easy, and makes sense. It seems that OSX treats the system clock value as if it’s stored as UTC, however...

posted @ Sunday, January 30, 2011 10:00 PM | Feedback (0)

January roundup

I’ve had this post in draft for a couple of weeks, and it used to start off saying “January is shaping up to be an incredibly busy month”. Well given it’s almost February, so I’d have to say that yes indeed January was a very busy month as evidenced by the number of posts made so far. A big part of January was actually taking a break and recovering from 2010, which was incredibly busy work wise. After returning from 3 spending 3 months in Norway onsite for a client, Ignition jumped straight into some large projects, and when...

posted @ Saturday, January 29, 2011 3:17 PM | Feedback (0)

Do you own/use a Cisco SPA50xG?

If so then I highly recommend you get the recent firmware update (7.4.7). I’ve been struggling with the call quality and dropout factor with this phone for a while, and so far this update has noticeably improved things all around.

posted @ Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:53 PM | Feedback (0)

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My name is Ross Hawkins and I'm a developer, consultant, business owner and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand (pictured below!). My current work revolves around ASP.NET, C#, jQuery, Ajax, SQL Server, and a mix of other Microsoft development technologies.

I also have about 15 years of experience with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and associated technologies. While Notes/Domino is no longer my primary focus I still like to dabble and keep my skills up to date.

I own and run 2 businesses - Hawkins Consulting Services, and Ignition Development.

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