John Pollard's Technical Blog

I'd never seen it before, and it turns out hardly anyone else in our team had either so I thought it was worth sharing. I was having problems accessing a particular resource on our internal network for which I had to use a particular proxy server. I set Read More...

I've been stumped by this one at least two times over the last couple of years, so I thought it was a good candidate to be written up here. I was trying to select a node from some standard XHTML where the default namespace was set. In otherwords the XHTML Read More...

Just a few words about myself and the purpose of this blog. I work as part of the MSN Portal International team in London, but we have a pretty wide remit to work on lots of MSN-based software so I get to work across many different areas of development. Read More...