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Hashtags problem
A few days ago, I learned about hashtags and their role within the Twitter microblogging platform. Very useful for some pruposes, although I accept that some people have issues with their use. I thought I’d experiment with the service, and … Continue reading
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WordPress Twitter plugin
With a bit of luck, this post will automatically trigger a tweet. Let’s see… By the way, if you are running a WP based blog, and want to try the plugin for yourself, you can get it from alexking.org
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Upgraded the MacBook Hard Drive
After getting perilously close to a full disk in OS X, I decided to upgrade the drive in my MacBook yesterday. The process was incredibly simple (are you listening Microsoft?) Physically swap out the hard drives Place the original drive … Continue reading
DeveExpress CodeRush and Refactor! Pro
Just a quick post today, since I’m on holiday. :) Yesterday I attended a couple of product-related events in Bradford. The first was an MSDN event around the changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Including the Entity Framework, Data Services … Continue reading
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TC Electronics – Who writes your manuals?
Yesterday I succumbed to temptation and upgraded my guitar rig with a TC Electronics Nova System. I’m extremely impressed with pretty much everything about the unit itself, but I have a problem. As with most electronic deices these days, you … Continue reading
HTTP Error 407 – Proxy authentication required
Recently I deployed an application into the live environment at work and all was running smoothly until a proxy setting change suddenly stopped the app being able to talk to the outside world. I didn’t much fancy having to rework … Continue reading
Programming Quotes
I like these… “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” (Damian Conway from the book Perl Best Practices). and “Before software can be reusable it … Continue reading
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Fault handling in WCF services
It is oprobably very well known to most WCF developers, but there is a methodology previously unknown to me for handling exceptions in a WCF service, and handling them gracefully. Hopefully this post will give enough of an overview to … Continue reading
FIA strikes again
Once again, the FIA (Ferarri International Assistance) have shown the world where there true allegience lies. At yesterday’s Belgian Grand Prix, the stewards decided to impose a 25 second penalty on Lewis Hamilton after ruling that he “gained an advantage by … Continue reading
WCF Services – a compatibility hack
I’ve recently had to start developing a set of WCF services for my company to use. All good stuff, you might say – and tyou’d be right. For the most part.
The area in which things get “interesting” is around the requirement for backwards-compatibility with some existing .Net 1.1 applications that consume traditional web services. Continue reading