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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. I am quite a fan of Microsoft Outlook and despite looking there is no free alternative which matches it (sorry Mozilla Thunderbird fans b...

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, everyone has seen XKCD (if not then you have my permission to stop reading and go spend a couple hours on the website, you can thank me lat...

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 looking at shuffling the characters in a string, the original post “Shuffle a string in VB.Net” was written back in 2010 and I felt that I should...

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 to things that I have learnt since I wrote the original code, like the use of a StringBuilder instead of just concatenating strings to build up t...

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 father doing some family history on the Isle of Scilly, during a walk around St. Marys we popped into a co...

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 cards, 52 cards (no jokers), 4 suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades) each with 13 cards (ace through to king). In this post I will go through the code...

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 when I heard about how Microsoft are doing a free Windows Azure Bootcamp. The Bootcamp will be a “one day ...

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 to the latest version of WordPress. During my initial setting up of WordPress, I went online to find sugges...