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…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Ian Nelson Posts
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…
One of the multiple hats that I’m currently wearing for a client is that of SQL Server DBA. In this guise, I have recently fielded…
Earlier this week I picked up a hire car and headed over to deepest Cheshire to install an instance of Team Foundation Server 2008 for…
I started my career in professional software development a decade or so ago by testing and fixing banking code that had fallen victim to the…