Musings on Information Technology - A view from the trenches

A few weeks ago I was trying to read binary data (e.g. a file) for a client application (to test a server application) and I struggled, ther...

Lately I've been having a look at XNA and I think it's really good or at least it's a very good way of getting started in game d...

Following on from my last post , I decided to give validation in WPF a go, with the added limitation that I could only use .NET 3.0 as we h...

I decided to give WPF a go last week, after all, it's only been out for five years. I wrote a small app that writes to the configuratio...

As part of the housekeeping service that I was talking about yesterday there is a call to the CrmService.Delete method . Having gone t...

A few weeks ago I started my first foray into multi threading. The idea was to speed up a housekeeping service by using several threads (al...

I passed my V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management exam, what more can I say? Can I have those two and half days of my life ba...

We all are lazy, I mean, we all like to minimize energy output and what better way of doing that than letting others do the work for you. ...

I sometimes wish that there was a grep command in windows, well, it turns out that there is, sort of, it's called find . You can ju...

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with VBS , perhaps because not all of our boxes have PowerShell installed and I'm forced to u...