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Colleagues who have to endure my sense of humour also have to enjoy my appreciation of Nant, the .net developer’s best friend.  Recently I’ve been using it to build databases during CruiseControl.net builds to enable a very complicated upgrade project to progress with some degree of order. Nanting the database build using Ruby on Rails style migrations is a great way to tie code builds to database builds.  I’ll dig out the generic nant script for reference as it’s a very handy technique. So what can’t you Nant?  Well, not a lot and that’s my point… if it moves, automate it.  The only thing distracting me from my enjoyment of Nant is Watir, another cracking product which I’m using all day every day to drive my web application testing… now if I can only hook up Watir with Nant. 

Today the Nokia N81 and the Nokia Music Store launched Now the handset and store are public I can post up a few handy howtos to help out any other N81 owners out there.

In general the handset is pretty funky with super fast wifi, pretty fast 3g and a clear and powerful sounding media player. I love the quick hookup to wifi around town and the very capable browser. Downloading tracks from the Nokia Music Store is a snap and I was getting a single downloaded and play ing within 20-30 seconds on 3G whilst waiting for the bus.

One of the first things I did with the handset was to switch off the browser security warnings which slow you down when switching between secure and unsecure pages. It’s obviously handy to know this in case you are buying online but you generally know to check for a secure link on private and checkout pages so I prefer a few less clicks in general use over warnings every https switch. Your choice might be to stick with the warnings all the time for best security but if not here’s how to reduce the clickage.

Step 1: Open up the browser

Step 2: Navigate through the menu to:

Browser - Options - General - Security Warnings

Then set the Security Warnings to: Hide

Job done!

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