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Bandwidth Throttling – WP7

I have been chasing down a defect in a Windows Phone 7 app that I’m involved with, but it seems to be bandwidth related. I really need to find a way to limit the bandwidth that the phone emulator is … Continue reading

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Barenaked Ladies – Leeds (17/10/10)

OK, first thing’s first – I am not what you’d call a Barenaked Ladies fan. I have a copy of “Stunt“, and I know “One Week” (in fact, my band have been trying to work out how to adequately cover … Continue reading

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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.

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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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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?

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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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Essential Tools

Insipired by Scott Hanselman’s blog post on the subject, I’ve decided to compile a lit of the tools I’ve added to my new developer machine.  Most of these are producivity enhancements, but some are just for fun. These are just … Continue reading

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