I'm currently in the planning stages of several .NET articles - so my question is, what would you most like to know? I do plan to write an article on the use of Nested Repeaters with DataSets with internal relations, and an article on T-SQL based…
Just read this article about a Microsoft interview. I also had an interview for a job at Microsoft a few years ago now (in my case, a PM job in one of the server groups). I met Mark Anders in the book shop at the 1999 ASP professional conference in Islington,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Well, had a very restful holiday...back to work now though. In typical Scottish fashion (well Edinburgh), it's raining outside. So, plans for the next few days include learning more about mobile controls...extending my winforms knowledge and generally working…
It's Friday night, at home and bored again. So, anyone reading this thing? Well, guess I'd better explain who I am if you are...I'm a 6ft 3in 20 stone Scottish male who lives alone in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. Haven't settled on a career yet and am…
I intend to add a fair old whack of content to the site over the next few days (I'll also work on some sort of design). Promise I will! This site's primary reson for being is so I can share stuff I discover in .NET, this could be articles my friends and I ,…