One of the common things that developers have to do is to edit XML. There’s a lot of very good paid for tools out there that give you everything you need to edit, view and visualise XML, but one free option is to use Notepad++ with the XML Tools plugin. To get the plugin, go [...]
I’ve written a piece of software that can be used to analyse what people are saying about a particular word on Twitter, and this gives two lists of information: the links used in tweets about a word, and other words used in tweets. I’ve built it as software for now, because I’m not sure it [...]
useful little snippet about how to do LINQ subtotalling http://www.develop-one.net/blog/2007/11/11/LINQSumAndGroupBy.aspx
The terms “programming” and “software engineering” are often seen as similar, but they are different things. One if about writing code, the other is more about a complete system and its maintenance and lifecycle. To try to illustrate, consider a bridge over a motorway. You have to measure it up, precast some concrete, get the [...]
Some years ago I had a head injury which came from some botched dental work, and one of the things that’s helped me is the cranial oesteopathy provided by Kim Burnett who works out of clinics in Ramsbury, Aldbourne and Newbury. Kim is very professional and for anyone in the Swindon, Wiltshire or East Berkshire [...]
