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“86% of developers listen to music whilst coding” and other stats

Posted by Tom on Jan 11, 2012 in Development

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...

FTP folder upload via command line / macro madness & WinSCP

Posted by Tom on Jan 5, 2012 in Development

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...

Visual Studio New Class Template Modification

Posted by Tom on Jan 4, 2012 in Development

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...

Our Amazing Internet World

Posted by Tom on Jan 3, 2012 in Everything Else

The web is a big place. Sometimes though, it’s hard to visualise quite how big, and how much goes on in it. Barry Ritholz has produced two amazing Infographics...

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Posted by Tom on Dec 25, 2011 in Everything Else

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas, whatever you’re doing, and a Happy New Year. 2011 has been a pretty good year for me, hopefully 2012 will be even...

Coming Soon … is here!

Posted by Tom on Dec 24, 2011 in Development

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....

What is Lync?

Posted by Tom on Dec 23, 2011 in Skype for BusinessÂ® (LyncÂ®)

Update: I’ve since written another, fuller, post titled “What is Lync and Why Should I Care” which is a non-technical introduction to Lync. This is my...

PADI Medical Questions Site

Posted by Tom on Dec 22, 2011 in Diving

I’ve just launched a new website: PADI Medical.com Here’s the history: Last week I was conducting a Discover Scuba Diving session. I reviewed the forms at...

Troubleshooting BizTalk Performance Issues (Intro to the Throttle)

Posted by Tom on Dec 21, 2011 in Development, Everything Else

I’ll admit, before we started this, I didn’t even know BizTalk had a Throttle. I suppose it makes sense, it’s a feature of an expensive enterprise...

Doing It Right 1st Time

Posted by Tom on Dec 14, 2011 in DIY

Disclaimer: this is a non-IT related rant. If it has any bearing on software development at all, it is that it is further validation of the Doing Things Right First Time...

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