Monitor Performance of your Apps at run-time…with PerfMon!
Ben Day has a blog post on a really interesting idea: using Performance Monitor (perfmon) to monitor the performance of your applications at run-time. You can create...
Read MoreGetting Last Known Reboot Time
This is more of an aide-memoir for me than anything else. To find out when a server was last rebooted: System Event Log, filter for EventID 6009 on Windows 2008 you can...
Read More“86% of developers listen to music whilst coding” and other stats
Zend Technologies have just released their latest ‘Developer Pulse’ survey results. You can see the full report here, but it’s mostly PHP-based (as...
Read MoreFTP folder upload via command line / macro madness & WinSCP
I was pair-programming today and we made a change to a fundamental data type which required all the web-services to be rebuilt and republished. We’d done this a...
Read MoreVisual Studio New Class Template Modification
New Year is a good time for some introspection. I’ve been looking at how I can do things, and re-reading the most excellent book The Pragmatic Programmer: From...
Read MoreComing Soon … is here!
This is a celebratory post, as I’ve managed to do some PHP editing, and didn’t break anything, or kill anyone. I have a very bad relationship with PHP....
Read MoreAbout Me
Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Developer & Architect specialising in communication technology and AI-powered solutions. I empower developers, architects, and organisations to achieve more by creating applications and services — from intelligent agents and bots to integrations, automation, and developer tooling.
I'm passionate about creating great software that people will find useful and I want to help you do the same. This is my blog, you can find more about me, speaking engagements, code samples and more on my main site.