Just read an entry over on Sara
Williams blog regarding CS degrees and developers. I read an essay a few
weeks ago by Paul Graham called Hackers
& Painters, which basically puts forward the view that...
Friday, 30 January 2004 00:00
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Got a new book "Don't
Make Me Think!" by Steve Krug. This is a fantastic book and very short - important,
it means I'll actually read it. Along with a series
of articles by Joel Spolsky I think that...
Friday, 23 April 2004 00:00
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This really is a very quick tip...I think I got it from Fritz Onion'sexcellent Essential ASP.NET with Examples is C# (which I really recommend incidentally!). If you want to store a property which...
Friday, 19 March 2004 00:00
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I think I'm going through one of my bi-annual mid-life crises again. I really should be sleeping, I have a hospital appointment in the morning (just a diabetic clinic followup thing - 10 minutes and a...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:00
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Things like this kind of put my complaints about silly programming stuff into a bit of perspective!
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Friday, 12 March 2004 00:00
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I'm in one of my quieter periods when it comes to blogging right now...I have no particular excuse, I am just a bit phasal when it comes to such things. Anyway, I'll give a suggestion as to some...
Friday, 12 March 2004 00:00
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To cut a long story very short, I've always had a problem in accessing Windows Update from behind my Linksys BEFVP41 VPN router (which otherwise is excellent); well, I had to reinstall my main PC over...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:00
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I've been a fan ofASPToday for a while, but some very odd things are going on there at the moment...first is the sporadic downtime the site is having, then there's the distinct paucity of articles...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:00
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I've written about it before - but Spamnet is just the greatest email tool ever! Now they've finally released a version for Outlook Express! If you never want to see spam again, just get it - you'll...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:00
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Yet to try it out, but this has great potential to make my life a whole lot easier; going between VBScript and C# is not pleasant...if I forget one more then in a VBScript if statement, I may kill...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:00
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If you have a lot of ASP code which currently runs on a Windows 2000 server, you probably use CDONTS to send your mail...Now, if you want to migrate to Windows 2003 (or Windows XP for local dev)...
Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:00
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Today the Design Preview of new versions of ASP.NET happens in London...but I have a prior engagement and can't go...wahhhh!!!
If anyone from the ASP.NET design team is reading this - I love travel -...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Reproduced here for your delictation...from here
Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List
Roy Osherove suggested that I post a list of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. ...
Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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AARGGHHHHH! Man I hate it when you get a nice fun gadget and it doesn't work...So anyway, I decided to buy myself a nice new iPod (20Gb model in case you're interested), got it home, read the...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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From Jon Galloway's blog, a new version of BlogJet - with a bunch of new features including, finally, HTML Source editing - this is fantastic news!
New BlogJet!
Well, it's beta, but I'll take it - it...
Sunday, 04 July 2004 00:00
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Back...so's the site...
posted on Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:08 PM
Well, the site is back up. I will be updating more regularly for the next couple of months and aiming to move the site to somewhere...
Wednesday, 06 September 2006 00:00
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Patterns and Practices...suck!
posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:42 AM
I think I've made it pretty clear in the past that I think that one of the weakest areas of the Microsoft 'developer...
Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:00
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ISAPI Programming
posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:43 AM
Anyone know a good book on writing ISAPI filters? I really can't find one; that's less than 7 years old - and therefore hopelessly out of...
Thursday, 07 September 2006 00:00
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Found this site really interesting from Maxim V. Karpov, basically it's a blog with a focus on the use of design patterns in .NET - which I personally think are currently not widely underused but...
Monday, 05 July 2004 00:00
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Found through a comment on Jon Galloway's blog (no relation), this site has a whole bunch of nice little client side controls including a particularly nice calendar control. Anyway, thought I'd post...
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