My first printer was a Star LC-20 nine pin dot matrix that I received as a Christmas present when I was 15 years old. That’s…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Author: ian
I have been merrilly using NCrunch – an “automated concurrent testing tool for Visual Studio” – for almost three years now. I ponied up for…
Proudly presenting a new addition to the family – Mr Matthew Henry Nelson: He arrived at 0624 local time on the morning of Saturday 1st…
Are you plagued by bad code smells? Troubled by slow-running database queries and ETL routines? In need of some scalable and maintainable enterprise integration solutions?…
In the grand scheme of things, ’tis but a minor achievement, but I was quite chuffed with myself this evening when my Stack Overflow reputation…
Almost everyone who has wandered past the various desks that I’ve occupied over the last year has passed comment on my Wacom Bamboo Pen Graphics…
This dumb mistake just cost me an hour spelunking around in the debugger: var status = source.Substring(source.LastIndexOf(“/” + 1)); (where source is e.g. “http://foo.com/status/all-is-good“) Fortunately…
It’s been a long time since I posted a blog entry tagged with “genealogy” (over three years, in fact). I find it to be a…
This is the fifth in a series of five posts recounting my experiences using Entity Framework Code-First to replace ADO.NET and stored procedures in a…
This is the fourth in a series of five posts recounting my experiences using Entity Framework Code-First to replace ADO.NET and stored procedures in a…