Geek hero...someone actually called their child Version 2.0!

I just love this...especially as I'm currently going for me V1.1 (wonder if I should use that title :-))...

Consultancy in the UK...

Theoretically :-) if I wanted to become a consultant in the UK - how would I go about it, where would I find contracts? Does anyone know if it's possible to do this and still live in Scotland?

Security through Diversity - why I don't like ValidateRequest

I'm aware this is a fairly controversial viewpoint, I should explain some of my own background as a precursor to my dislike of this. In the bad old days, I was a penetration tester; I ran my own little company which provided this service to a number of…

Grr...why is Visual Studio so sucky with Source Control!

I'm really at the end of my tether with VS.NET and source control. I'm working from home this morning, accessing the office Sourcesafe over my VPN using SourceOffSite - fine, SourceOffsite is a great product, just VS.NET seems to just lock up totally when…

Dumb piece of code...generate ordinals for numbers (th,rd etc...)

UPDATE: My code below of course has an error (I wrote it to test the perceptive skills of the community ;-)) anyway, Philip Reick commented with a more credible version: Hmm.. my bet is you came across it again after forgetting it because you threw it away. It…