Doing It Right 1st Time
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 pattern. We moved house a few months ago and…
SQL Server Deadlocks: Identifying the easy way
I like when I find out something new, especially when it’s been under my nose for years and I never realised it. Sometimes I get scared about how little I know, in the grand scheme of all the things there…
BizTalk WCF-Custom Adapter (SQLBinding) silently consuming messages
This isn’t going to be a brilliantly helpful post, as I’m not 100% sure of the cause of this, but hopefully it should serve to remind me next time around. We have several Receive Locations set up using the WCF-Custom…
Who’s in? Who’s out? Presence Displayed Brilliantly
I love things like this. It’s so simple, but the effect is ‘wow’. It’s also useful. Here’s your 5-point plan to being awesome: Take a system where you record people’s presence in the office, along with whether they’re online, busy,…
Windows Phone 7 Icons: 100’s of them
I needed some icons quickly for a prototype project I’m putting together. I was amazed and very pleased to find this wealth of Windows Phone 7 icons. These icons are all Creative Commons licensed and are good quality. Lots of…