With the return of the dark wintry nights to this sceptered isle, I’ve been taking the opportunity to flesh out my Family Tree a little … Read more
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Year: 2007
So, I was using the First operator to return the first item element in a sequence matching a predicate. I expected a null to be … Read more
Ten years of professional software development have given me a healthy awareness of edge cases – I’m always trying to code defensively, validate input, catch … Read more
It gives me unparalleled joy to announce the birth of Mr Benjamin George Nelson. Following a relatively swift labour, the new arrival entered the world … Read more
I’ve finally gotten round to processing and uploading photos from Paulo’s Last Munro weekend. The weather on Ben More was truly appalling, so the majority … Read more
Last week I had the pleasure of spending a few days in London attending the Software Architect 2007 conference at the Barbican centre. It was … Read more
As discussed recently, I’ve been trying to knock together a class struct to represent a UK postcode, provide a means of parsing a string as … Read more
Wikipedia cracks me up sometimes. I’m sat here at my desk, trying to knock together some C# code to quickly validate an entered string as … Read more
Many moons (and about four jobs) ago, a wise DBA by the name of David Hanson once recommended to me a book called Microsoft SQL … Read more
I’m off to the MSDN Technical roadshow in Harrogate tomorrow, and am actually really looking forward to it this time. These events are free, so … Read more