Author Archives: Marc

Split a Camel-Cased word into its components

I needed to split a camel-cased word into it’s component parts, and found the following extension method to help out.  It works pretty well. public static string SplitCamelCase( this string str ) { return Regex.Replace( Regex.Replace( str, @"(\P{Ll})(\P{Ll}\p{Ll})", "$1 $2" … Continue reading

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New Band

After a good few years playing with Hydra, I have started a new band.  Four are similar to Hydra in the material we play, but we’re a four-piece (guitar, bass, drums and vocals) which makes my job as guitarist a … Continue reading

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Mars Edit – Blogging tool

This post is brought to you by the pretty nifty Mars Edit by Red Sweater. I’ve been looking for an OSX blogging client, and over the Christmas period I discovered Mars Edit. It’s pretty similar to Windows Live Writer in … Continue reading

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Marshaling – How I got involved (Part 2)

I left you last time having completed my morning at Donington, looking around the circuit and behind the scenes.  The afternoon was where my marshaling career really began – out “on the bank”. I’d been allocated a position on post … Continue reading

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Marshaling – How I got involved

The first part of a series on how to get involved in motorsport marshaling, from a personal perspective. Continue reading

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Audio and image support – Gotcha!

I’m currently working on a WPF application to extend a Silverlight control to support the capture of audio and webcam still images.   All seems to be going pretty well using a Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX as the capture device, using … Continue reading

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WCF Restful interface

For one of the projects I am working on, I needed to be able to self-host a WCF service.  That in itself is a fairly simple task.  It was, however, complicated by the need to allow a SilverLight 3 application … Continue reading

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Renault and the Future of Formula 1

As some of you already know, I’ve been volunteering as a motor sport marshal for a few months now, and so I wanted to share my thoughts about today’s announcement that Flavio Briatore and Pat Symmonds of Renault’s Formula One … Continue reading

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New comment added to a stored procedure

Today, I had occasion to add a comment to a stored procedure. Can you tell exactly how happy I was about it? — – IMPORTANT!!!!! — – This procedure has been replaced with **name witheld** — – Any modifications made … Continue reading

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Who says .Net can’t be fun?

or at least, mildly amusing on a dull afternoon… “The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x21b378 to COM context 0x21b4e8 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a … Continue reading

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