Talking about my websites @ The Skiff in Brighton and a reflection on working...
It was 2 weeks ago now but I had the privilege of giving a 20 minute talk at the £5 App event in Brighton.My slide deck of the talk will be at the bottom of this post for download if anyone is...
View ArticleUsing CAPTCHA in the physical world
One thing that I have had to do over the last year is to hire people to help build by websites. Anyone that has been in the hiring position will know the pain that follows placing an advert… the deluge...
View ArticleDevelopers are only a cog in a software development project
I have been following a new blog by Tim McOwan called www.devballs.com and it focuses on delivering software using a Scrum Process.His latest article, Guess What? Scrum Developers should be cutting...
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Going to the first Windows Phone 7 (WP7) user group
Just writing a quick article about going to the first Windows Phone 7 User Group @wpug last night. With the device release within touching distance I get a feeling there is more and more excitement...
View ArticleHow to unit test Microsoft xRM Wrapper code
Now this might seem like something that would be easy to do but I’ve just spent 2 days struggling to do just this because of what I consider a bug in one of the SDK wrappers. I have now found a work...
View ArticleStrong name validation failed on 64bit OS
We have recently upgraded our development environments on my project to match the production environment which is running on a 64bit servers. There was a big gotcha which was the delayed signed dll’s...
View ArticleThinking of becoming an I.T. contractor? Get a hard nose.
Why I think I can give some adviceFour years ago I created own start-up which did the very opposite of making me a millionaire, my plan B at that point was to become an I.T. contractor, which I did 3...
View ArticleMy recommendations for up-and-coming software developers
Why I’m writing this postOver the last few years I have taken on a mentor / coaching type role from time to time for some up and coming software developers and I have found myself repeating my...
View ArticleMy programmers Recommended Reading List
I am currently pulling together various materials I have found useful over the years to create some short reference materials for software developers I am managing. This is just a quick reference list...
View ArticleIt’s like psychostats but simpler – a foray into writing an application using...
I like playing CounterStrike Source (CS:S). I like playing against my friends at LAN parties (yes we actually still physically gather with our pc’s at some location and network them up and play against...
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