LeedsHack 2011 has been and gone, and again was the flurry of excitement and frustration we’ve come to expect from the event. @the_hodge, @heathervamp and the rest of the team managed to organise an excellent venue, a world class pic ‘n’ mix and the world’s largest simultaneous takeaway order –...
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Nottingham Barcamp 2011
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Do More With Less (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Code)
Slides from my talk on anti-pattern productivity (applying levels of common sense to getting stuff done vs formal productivity systems).
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24… 72… Since Thursday with a Motorola Xoom
I have an apology to make. My Xoom arrived on Thursday, at which point I tweeted I would post a review of it after 24 hours. Well, I’ve been a little busy getting to grips with it and making it fit in to my daily workflow that… ah, who am...
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JsonRequestBehaviour.AllowGet & Visual Studio Regex
Nice quick win – currently upgrading a client Intranet project from ASP.NET MVC1 to MVC2. Microsoft changed how get requests are handled in this release and disallowed GET JSON requests by default. Before going any further, note that there are security implications in allowing JSON get requests.
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Tips for Contractor CVs
I spend quite a bit of time recruiting for clients, helping place contractors and full time placements for them. As such, I sift through rather a lot of CVs. CVs are notoriously hard to get right, you’ve got to get a potentially complex personality and skill set across in a...
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National Freelancers Day
Well, I didn’t see that coming.
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Fencing on Gaydio 88.4FM
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National Rail – Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cow
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Does Anyone Else See Smiley Faces?
From the Visual Studio Regular Expressions documentation…
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