Whilst changing the site, I noticed a couple of comments, almost all were realy nice, but one was a simple, dumb insult. To be honest I don't care what you think of this site, nor do I mind if you never come back, with this in mind, I've decided not to include…
It's Saturday morning (the time is odd because the host in in the US)...I need to find something to do. Choices currently are: Shopping - Saturday before payday - probably a bad idea! Coding - I have some work to do for work; writing a forum system for this…
Still waiting for the 0.95 release of .TEXT (which is what this blog runs on), so I don't really want to make any changes to this site until then - as the changes I plan may already be in that release / the changes in 0.95 will be so radical that it will…
Thought this interview was VERY interesting, more for the approach more than anything else. It really does look like MS is changing the way they approach software - the focus on quality over timeliness and marketing concerns is appreciated. It really does seem…
Just discovered the dotnetjunkies weblogs , where I found thesereally useful links to a bunch of interesting .NET stuff...more later (back to blogging again :-))
Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!
Code Complete by Steve McConnellis, in my opinion (and many others), the best book ever about the art and discipline of coding. Basically, it's just the bible of how to design and build quality software. So, I'm really looking forward to Code Complete 2 (link…
I'm working...hmm...thought I'd mention a very odd bug I came across yesterday at work - which had me puzzled for about a day and a half... I had written an application (the Portal I've mentioned before - The Education Community), which uses the Data Access…
I'm currently on holiday - hence no new entries. Be back in a few days - lots of cool stuff on Pocket PC programming with the Compact Framework coming up :-)
A comment from Rob Howard (I'll dig out a link later) go me thinking about problems with most blogs. Now, in my every day job I develop community applications, forums and all sorts of similar 'social software systems' one of the big keys to helping discussions…