After several fruitless attempts to contact my previous web host in order to add HTTPS to this site I gave up and moved this blog to WordPress. Additionally I was getting increasingly bored with the management of a self hosted WordPress site with challenges such as deciding which versions of WordPress the hosting company would accept, …
I have listened to these episodes multiple times now and have been able to extract more value and extra insights from them on every playback. I hope you find them enjoyable as much as I have. Akimbo: No such thing (as writers block) Seth Godin’s podcast is superb, this episode on writers block is my …
I try to attend a developers conference once a year and this year I attended NDC London 2018. I was surprised that only two developers out of the many I had asked before going knew of the NDC brand of conferences. I discovered NDC thanks to Carl and Richard of .NET Rocks! Thanks gents, I owe …
This post is an aide-memoire as I learn more about boxing and unboxing in C# and is based upon this part of the C# docs. Boxing Is the process of converting a value type (such as int or bool) to the type Object or to any interface type implemented by this value type. When the CLR …
I recently needed to examine a number of XML files and print out the element names that contained text greater than X number of characters. In addition I also need to print the location of that element within the XML document. i.e. given the following document …if I was interested in book titles that had …
I have been interested in Git, the distributed version control software since reading the first edition of Scott Chacon’s Git book way back in 2010. However outside of my own projects, my real world experience of using Git is relatively limited and it’s one of the skills I never seem to get around to improving on. To change …
I had been looking for an Raspberry Pi project for a long time, the various media player and game emulators didn’t interest me enough besides I wanted something that the whole family could get involved in. It was only through discussing this at work that someone mentioned they had built a Hedgehog camera with …
