Postcode Areas UK

I've create a database to hold of the Postcode Areas in the UK, you can test the area and district by entering the Prefix Letter(s) and Number(s) of your post code here

Metro Controls

Finally developed version 1.0 Metro Controls for Windows Forms.

The initial control set will contains:

Button
Check Button
Combo Box
Form
List Box
Progress Bar
Progress Ring
Round Button
Slider
Tab Control
Tile Control
Toggle Switch

Dark Theme 

 

 

Light Theme 

Metro Themed Controls for Winforms

Just been pondering about styling a Windows Form application with Metro Controls. I can see there are a lot of costly 3rd Party controls and I'm thinking of creating a free Metro Library UI on CodePlex.

There seems to be a definitive list here. Real problem I would have would be skinning the Scrollbar at application level (Possibly could be done with Win32 Subclassing). Some controls could leverage WPF (Progress Ring, Progress Bar, Progress Intermittent Bar).

Just food for thought...

Exchange Studio

I recently rolled out Exchange 2010 server. After deployment I thought about an easy manangement console for everyday task because I perfer not to wrestle with the Exchnage ManagementShell (EMS). So I created Exchange Studio.

This exemplifies the use of the Metro design language, I'll will be able to execute the majority of day to day tasks thus making Exchange Administration easy.

Pirahna

After sucessfully deploying our Barracuda Spam and Firewall 300 appliance, I decided it would be time to produce some analytical information based on the network activity.

I hooked into the Barracuda and captured inbound messages and logged them to a database in realtime. With the information at hand and some IP geocoding I produced a realtime UI showing where spam originates.

This is first cut of the application future versions will be able to produce some information like:
a. Top IP Spammers
b. Top Country Spammers
c. Top Spam recepients

Also based on the frequency of the spam and IP I could dynamically block the IP address on our Cisco 2800 router using a telnet and IOS commands to apply access-list on the inbound interface now that would neat way to block persistent spammers.

The XAML Project

Seems there's a new boy in town to compete with The Noun Project and name is The XAML Project.
There's not many icons yet, but I'm sure the size will grow with age.

I've also discovered a new site called XAMALOT (luv the pun),

Metro Noun

Metro Noun is a project I have been working on just recently. It is a studio that lets you add SVG or XAML code and create custom Metro Icons. It can be used in to customise icons from the Noun Project in particular.

Here's a beta snap shot.