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Tesco, Your car wash sucks

Posted on Monday, 31 January, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Earlier today I was at Tesco to refuel my car and I noticed that it was a bit overdue for a wash, so when I paid for my fuel I also purchased a voucher for the car wash. It was … Continue reading →

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Technology Trends – October 2010 update

Posted on Saturday, 2 October, 2010 by Colin Mackay

Around this time last year I wrote a blog post showing technology trends for browsers and operating systems as reported by Google Analytics for my blog and some mainstream websites. Since then the world has moved on and the trends … Continue reading →

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Parser Error Message: Ambiguous match found

Posted on Monday, 23 August, 2010 by Colin Mackay

Symptom On deploying a newly precompiled web site, the error message as displayed by ASP.NET is as follows: Server Error in ‘/’ Application. Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. … Continue reading →

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32bit ASP.NET App on 64bit Windows 7

Posted on Tuesday, 6 July, 2010 by Colin Mackay

Recently we all moved to Windows 7 (64bit) on our development machines. With that, we moved also to IIS7. So that meant that development copies of websites that we are working on have to be moved to IIS7. This should … Continue reading →

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Why can’t customer services actually be helpful?

Posted on Monday, 14 June, 2010 by Colin Mackay

I’ve noticed that when ever I have to get in touch with customer services for after sales advice then I get a really bad service. I tend to get stock answers that suggest the person who responded didn’t really read … Continue reading →

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DDD Scotland: The feedback

Posted on Thursday, 20 May, 2010 by Colin Mackay

I’ll be standing down as chairman of Scottish Developers shortly. I’m not leaving, I’m just looking for a different role within the user group. But as I’m hanging up that particular hat I felt I would add my own personal … Continue reading →

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Type Inference

Posted on Friday, 19 March, 2010 by Colin Mackay

Type Inference is a neat feature where the C# compiler can work out itself what type a reference to an object is. While this can be used for the developer to be lazy it is most useful when you are … Continue reading →

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Lambda cheat sheet

Posted on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 by Colin Mackay

A while ago I wrote about all the new language features of C# 3.0 and it occurred to me that I’d left out a chunk about Lambdas. With LINQ being such an important part of C#3.0 that seems like a … Continue reading →

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Updated chart of .NET version numbers

Posted on Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 by Colin Mackay

Way back when, I published a table detailing the version numbers of the various parts that make up a .NET application: The Tools, the C# language, the Framework itself and the Engine (CLR) that it all runs on. With the … Continue reading →

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O2, please train your store employees

Posted on Saturday, 6 March, 2010 by Colin Mackay

Last week I changed the tariff on my phone to better suit my usage. However, it turns out that by changing the tariff I also needed to change some settings on my phone. So, when the old tariff cut out, … Continue reading →

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