Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
Alastair Mitchell Hughes (aka ‘Wee Man’) Two weeks in and we are starting to remember how hard this stuff is… – Feeding at all hours of the night– Nigh on constant nappy changing– Sterlizing and making up bottles But neither of us would change it for the world. He is…
So I’ve spent a lot of time (seems like a huge amount) trying to get to grips with the XMLSerializer in .NET. I think I have pretty much come to the conclusion that what I’m trying to achieve is not possible (even though it seems like a logical thing)… I’m…
I’ve recently implemented the SCRUM methodology at work (C2C Systems). It has been a really interesting process, has taught us some very valuable lessons and provided a number of benefits : There are many things that go into the development process that people do not view as (or understand are)…
OK, so we’ve moved house and I’ve found my study (computing area devoted to Ken) has been downsized to what I would call a ‘cubby-hole’ – Not Good !! Anyway, alongside trying to rationalize what I use on a day to day basis and moving the equipment around I’ve been…
After months of debating, listing, reviewing, comparing and disagreeing and with only 3 weeks to BoB Day (Birth of Baby day) we almost have a name for the new baby… WILLIAM Nest is well and truly built – the whole upstairs of the house has been redecorated, carpeted, walls knocked…
I have now been with web hosts 1 and 1 for three years now, I chose them as they seemed to be big (giving the impression that I could expect a quality service from them) and they were also reasonably priced £4.99 per month for basic ASP.NET hosting allowing ODBC…
Well, I finally reached the halfway point (in fact I passed it by one) of “munrobagging” (reaching the summit of all 284 of Scotland’s munros – mountains over 3000ft). I left work in Reading, UK at 6pm on Thursday night, drove until 1:30am when I reached Crianlarich Youth Hostel and…
I have been looking at how to make improvements (in productivity) in our technical support team recently. One of the ‘tick list’ items I always put on job Descriptions (when advertising) is “Must have a logical and methodical approach to troubleshooting technical problems”. I went right back to basics and…
I got hold of Philip Laureano and we’ve been discussing the best way to make this available publically (we’ll probably lump for Sourceforge). Interestingly he also mentioned that someone else has written a ‘SchemaBrowser’ style extension for it – giving the whole application much more power (on a par with…