There are many things I love about Team Foundation Server, but the supplied diff/merge tool is not one of them. It is – how can…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Year: 2009
If I can get a pass out from helping to look after the burgeoning Nelson family for an evening, I’ll be going along to this…
It gives me the utmost pleasure to announce the birth of Miss Isla Grace Nelson. Following a ludicrously speedy labour, Isla entered the world in…
I spent much of this weekend over in Bradford, talking shop with the good folks at the Alt.Net UK ‘in the North’ conference. I had…
I’m coming round to the realization that my hugely enjoyable first contract at Ventura last summer might have been something of an anomaly. That project…
My current primary client has an annoying habit of closing for random days and half-days, including last Thursday afternoon. I decided to try to make…
One of the least surprising but more significant announcements to come out of Mix ‘09 last week was the general availability of ASP.NET MVC 1.0.…
So, base rates are now down to 1.0%, and the Zero Interest Bug is not just conjecture. From The Times: “About 1,500 customers who took…
OK, dear readers, today I’d like to talk about tools. Software development isn’t really so different from traditional skilled crafts in that it is important…
Sometimes, when you join a new team as a .NET developer, the team lead proudly points you in the direction of a Word document or…