Science

I trained as a Scientist...psychologists are kind of paranoid about being strictly scientific since it used to be an 'art' - so now all psychologists applyt scientific method with some rigour. Science is an odd creature and many scientists define themselves as…

The Zone

What is 'The Zone' -is it a form of the trance autistic people sometimes experience. Do hairdressers have a 'Styling Zone'. I love it, it's Zen like (I practise ZaZen meditation or at least the dumbed down self-help form). 'The Zone' is a place you can reach…

The one half decent picture I've ever taken...

It's easter sunday and I got to thinking about my family - my nephews will currently be feeling ill with severe chocolate overdose... So thought I'd upload the one good picture I ever took. Click for the HUGE version...It's a picture of my nephew Barry, taken…

Data Access Application Block V2

Just noticed over at Devhawk that V2 of the DataAccessApplicationBlock has been released... Just When You Thought It Was Safe... The prescriptive guidance is coming fast and furious now. The User Interface Process Application Block is a framework for…

Application Blocks...again...probably...

I've written about these before, but if you are planning to develop any sort of ASP.NET / other .NET based app, you can save yourself a whole heap of time an aggrovation by having a look at the .NET application blocks, for instance the Data Access Application…