I had no excuse for not attending DDDNorth this year, as it was held at Leeds University, a relatively short drive from home. Not that…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Ian Nelson Posts
“We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals” — Stonecutter’s creed Consider for a moment, if you will, the humble Boolean. Taking only…
As a lowly sellsword amongst the ensemble cast that make up the incestuous York/Leeds IT scene, I am not usually one to be influenced by…
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…
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…