I admit it I go to Starbucks for coffee occasionally, I know I am a terrible person and I’m going to hell but it’s in my building and just so convenient when I am getting into work at 07:30 or
Free coffee: Keep it joined up
Google Calendar events in Microsoft Outlook
I recently bought Microsoft Office 2013 Professional for use at home, while I am not a fan of the hefty price tag associated with Microsoft Office I got a really good deal on it through the company I work for.
Developer humour
One of the great things that I love about being a developer is the in-jokes, the jokes which as a developer you laugh at because it’s sad how true they are. Things like XKCD and Dilbert always make me smile,
Shuffle a string in C#
This is the first in a series of posts that I am going to make to update some of the existing code examples with newer code utilising what I’ve learnt since the original article. In this post I will be
Password generation in C#
This is an update for a post that I wrote back in 2010 on how to generate a password using VB.NET. The overall design of the code has been kept the same although I have made a few adjustments according
Customer resistance, methods of minimising it
We all want to engage our target audience, get them involved in our products/brands but sometimes we don’t remove enough of the resistance from their path to make potential audience members become engaged. I am currently on holiday with my
Deck of Cards in C#
So this is something I have seen a number of times on StackOverflow, so I thought I would spend some time while I was on a ferry creating a solution for. So what we have is a standard deck of
Windows Azure Free Global Bootcamp
I recently took the decision that I wanted to start to get more involved in the wider programming community, by giving back (through this blog and online through things like StackOverflow) and by attending bootcamps, so I was really pleased
Problems with Add Media in WordPress
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems on the Internet, it is used by an estimated 17.5% of websites according to W3Techs (source). This is one of those many websites, I recently moved my website over from Joomla
Source control server on your development machine
Having my source control server on my development machine. Am I going to the deepest level of developer hell?