This week marks three anniversaries of varying degrees of significance in my computing career. It's 20 years since my first paid employment in the computing industry. I was 12 years old, and I was overjoyed to have a program published in a computer...

It's a slightly strange way to release it, admittedly, but if you're bored with the standard blue, silver and green variants of the Luna theme that ships with Windows XP, you can now download the Royale / Energy Blue theme. This theme originally shipped...

I've always loved Pascal as a language. It was the first language in which I wrote a serious application (Borland's Turbo Pascal 4.0 for DOS), and I always found its simplicity and structure attractive (even though its idiosyncratic use of the semicolon...

If you've got Avalon Beta 1 RC installed on your machine now (and if not, why not?!), you'll enjoy both of these two applets that have been written by colleagues of mine: Avalon 3D File System Visualizer by Steve White from the Premier Support group...

This ought to be a FAQ, so I thought I'd at least document it here on my blog so that search engines will pick it up. Avalon Express applications provide a model for deploying browser-based applications securely. An Avalon Express application consists...