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Last week I attended MIX:UK 07 - the Microsoft showcase of all their upcoming web based technologies. Unfortunately I was only able to attend the 2nd day as I had client meetings on the first but that which I did attend was good. I started the day sitting
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This week I was introduced to Paint.Net a free photo and image editing tool. Within 5 mins I realised it was missing 1 major feature crucial to a web developers toolkit - Photoshop PSD support. A quick Google an hey-presto someone's already written a
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Some of you may have heard that I've finally decided to move to pastures new (after only 1.5 years at Net Construct ). My new future employer is a London based company called cScape who have decided to branch out to new locations as the rates being asked
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Recently I've reaslised a major risk for developers working in a development firm. Now many development companies design and develop products to help with their business processes with the aim to make them more efficient and tasks easier. The problem
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So for those of you that don't know (I havent had time to Blog about it) I recently bought a flat. So to celebrate I had a good old knees up with my friends. Theres some photos on my Flickr (not that I know how to use it) and they are all a bit blurry
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Seeing as Im am probably one of the readers of this blog I tend to use it to keep a track of handy developer tips and tools to aid in my development life. Well todays tip is a T-SQL one which I have found to be a saving grace when moving databases all
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Firstly welcome to my new server. Have ditched the old Texas based box we've had for the past 2 years and now have a new (Dual Core - 2gb ram) dedicated bad boy hosted in the UK. This this is soooo much faster and much much easier to manage. I also (have
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OK so becoming an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) was just childsplay as yesterday I took the 3rd MCP and passed with a killer score of (95.2% - thanks TestKing) p0wning Cam's ar5e and being the first 2 developers in our company to become MCAD's
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'Action is eloquence.' - William Shakespeare Some people talk a good game - meanwhile, you’re out there getting things done. You’re the Swiss Army Knife of IT - practical, efficient, sharp. You know the nitty gritty like no one else, you’re happiest when
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With Xmas coming up quicker than a speeding bullet, I just so happened to stumble across an affiliation site which seems to have snagged most of the top online retailers. As with the many sites of this type you click the linky through to the etailer and
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OK so last night I was educated by my friends Cam and Sue with a trip to see Tommy Emmanuel play. Now if you've never heard of him (which I hadn't) essentially he plays the guitar using finger picks and does that damn fast!!! Not only that but he uses
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Now despite us all needing suitable source versioning for our projects none of us ever get round to using anything by Microsoft Source Safe (which can I point out is over 10 years old!!!!). Now if you've ever had to work with it and had to get projects
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So I'm currently working on a project for a client which is aimed at the mobile phone market. As this is my first mobile I thought I would start but using the specific Visual Studio mobile forms. After 1 even's attempted development, I suggest you don't.
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OK as I regularly complain about having no personal time what so ever and therefore never do anything techy for myself these days. I must give kudos to the guys behind this awesome little google maps-flash mashup. http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html
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So I had IE 7 installed no more than 10 minutes before it started to do my head in, so here is what I reckon will be a much preferred hack http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2006/01/31/521542.aspx It allows you to stop the address bar being the top
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