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Daily Archives: Sunday, 17 June, 2007
Because you have a passion for it
A thread recenly appeared on Code Project from a new author. He was put off by the apparent low votes he received for his article on C# Coding Standards. The article itself wasn’t too bad for a first attempt and … Continue reading
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To Blog or Not To Blog
The BBC has an article about companies letting their staff blog, or not, entitled Companies urged: “Let your staff blog”. Personally, I don’t blog about the place where I work. I rarely mention it at all. On the odd occasion where … Continue reading
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How to ask a question
You may have noticed the odd rant now and again when I get frustrated at people on forums who need help but seem incapable of doing even the tiniest thing to help themselves in the first place. If you haven’t … Continue reading
Got Vista Installed
I’ve finally installed Vista on my PC! It wasn’t a trouble free installation though. IT is always good to have a clean out of old stuff from time to time, so I took this opporunity to blow away the cobwebs … Continue reading
Visual Studio 2005 on Vista
I’ve got Visual Studio 2005 installed on Vista – It wasn’t the trouble free installation I’d hoped for. I had to go through the installation cycle twice. On the first attempt it got so far and then informed me that … Continue reading
Technorati Tag Builder (Update)
Since announcing my little application to help make technorati tags easier for my blog posts I’ve gone and fixed a couple of bugs. I suppose that’s what you get for writing an application in a few minutes – not enough … Continue reading
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How do you return error conditions?
A recent poll on Code Project asked: How do you return error conditions? I was disappointed to find that in the event of a ”critical error that leaves the app in an undefined state” a shocking 5% of people would “cover up … Continue reading
Google Map of Scottish Developers Event Location
Google maps has a cool feature that allows you to draw annotations on a map. I’ve created one detailing the transportation links (bus station, railway station and car parks) nearest the location of the upcoming Scottish Developer events. To create … Continue reading
