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A minor, mainly bug fix release to our Bedside Clock for WP7 app has finally made it through the...
Date: 11/09/2012
After working on Bing for as long as it's been in existence - I was there back in the "Windows Live...
Date: 08/28/2012
... as for various reasons I've not been posting on here for a while - mainly because I've been...
Date: 07/15/2012
I've got several blogs than run on Posterous - including this one - but to be honest the default...
Date: 07/15/2012
I got an email from Google saying I needed to update the manifest for my "Bing Translate" Chrome...
Date: 07/14/2012
I've been trying to learn more about JQuery recently, and had an opportunity to try to figure out...
Date: 06/09/2012
For a while now I've been keeping my personal code repositories on BitBucket - which I'm really...
Date: 06/06/2012
At the start of the year I set myself the ambitious task of trying to ship an app a month for the...
Date: 06/04/2012
It's now nearly at the end of February and it's abundantly clear that it's really hard to keep...
Date: 02/26/2012
I've been thinking hard about which out of my long list of half-baked ideas to commit to next. I do...
Date: 02/05/2012
So we're still on target for shipping an app a month, but January was always going to be an easy...
Date: 01/28/2012
Been a reasonably slow start to the year of code, mainly because I've been in the US for the day...
Date: 01/15/2012
So this is the plan. I was inspired during my personal Something New Every Day project to ship a new...
Date: 01/05/2012
The reason I’m blogging about this is that I was trying to do this the other day and I struggled to...
Date: 10/17/2010
Not that anyone is really paying attention, but I recently realized I hadn’t updated the world with...
Date: 10/10/2010
Summary I wrote a Google Spreadsheet at...
Date: 12/19/2009
I think most people who know me personally by now know that I’m very shortly moving on from...
Date: 11/17/2009
I've been working on my friend Josie's website and was looking for a simple solution for her to be...
Date: 10/18/2009
I love my Garmin 275 nüvi! I’ve always put off buying a SatNav as it somehow seems a sign...
Date: 01/21/2009
I’ve always used the Windows Live Toolbar to sync favorites across my multiple machines, so it was a...
Date: 12/22/2008
The next stage in my plan to let the whole world know where I am has been to hook up my Fire Eagle...
Date: 12/06/2008
Not that you’d really notice, but I’ve updated the code to show my current location on the map on...
Date: 11/29/2008
I got this tip in the pub on Friday from my friend Bobby who works on the MSDN team. He told me he’d...
Date: 11/09/2008
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Date: 11/01/2008
We found an interesting issue today regarding our use of pre-compiled ASP.Net websites that I...
Date: 09/24/2008
Well “relaunch” is a little grand, but I thought I’d try to make a bit better use of this blog. The...
Date: 09/24/2008
As usual, this may well be common knowledge but I found this useful.In a stored procedure we were...
Date: 11/13/2007
I found the following page interesting when having issues setting a value in a SqlParameter...
Date: 04/13/2007
Recently had some issues setting up some custom perf counters to install and run from an ASP.Net...
Date: 03/07/2007
Is this a well known trick and I'm just completely out of touch? Probably, but I was very excited...
Date: 12/18/2006
I was struggling to install some new software (the superb new Live Local 3D view - I had an early...
Date: 11/14/2006
As I've posted before, I really don't like the Visual Studio interface for running unit tests. This...
Date: 11/01/2006
Reasonably often I find myself writing a mini-test harness when I want to run a console application...
Date: 11/01/2006
I'm now working on the Windows Live Expo team, which means: I might have some more interesting...
Date: 03/02/2006
This one surprised me a lot when we found it. You can reboot a computer that is running IIS remotely...
Date: 02/17/2006
I had some strange issues on my laptop with Visual Studio 2005 - the delete and return keys didn't...
Date: 12/21/2005
I'd never seen it before, and it turns out hardly anyone else in our team had either so I thought it...
Date: 11/16/2005
I've been stumped by this one at least two times over the last couple of years, so I thought it was...
Date: 11/12/2005
Just a few words about myself and the purpose of this blog. I work as part of the MSN Portal...
Date: 11/12/2005