John Pollard's Technical Blog

Recently had some issues setting up some custom perf counters to install and run from an ASP.Net page that I thought I'd share. We began by using the information in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555129 which states: "It turns out that the permission Read More...

Reasonably often I find myself writing a mini-test harness when I want to run a console application and time how long it takes. I always end up looking back through old code to remember how to do it, so this makes it very suitable for posting here. It's 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...