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…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Category: Tech
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…
I am now a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in .NET 1.x technologies. This is a qualification that I’ve been working towards on and (more often…
Having accepted that Returning DataSets from WebServices is the Spawn of Satan and Represents All That Is Truly Evil in the World (or at least,…
As I mentioned last summer, I do enjoy whiling away a few hours attempting to solve the maths / progamming challenges set on Project Euler.…
Back in November 2004, I had the idea of making a "Generic Sorter for Strongly-Typed Collections", by harnessing the mighty power of reflection. Well, earlier…
The single most popular entry on this blog is, surprisingly enough, this quick post from Summer 2004 where I did a quick experiment to "prove"…
What’s on your desktop background? Some bland corporate logo perhaps, or maybe one of the bog-standard Windows wallpapers, or maybe a photograph you took years…
It’s over a month now since Visual Studio 2005 officially RTM’d, and during that time I’ve been fortunate enough to have been using it for…
Here’s a damn useful piece of information which should be in the armoury of every modern codemonkey: In Java, if it is required to round…