May 9th 2008
Five of the coolest twitter api applications.
I've not been bitten by the Twitter bug as of yet, I'm firmly seated in the "dont really get it" camp -that said, there seems to be plenty of interest online, plenty of dedicated followers and as this post indicates and plenty of innovative usages / startups based around the ...
April 30th 2008
Please let “I code in Notepad” die. A rant to Notepad users.
Reader notice. I'm feeling like a bit of a rant. Ok?
Im sick sore and tired of listening to certain segments of the design / development community spout about how brilliant a coder they are.
Just because they use Notepad. Its not big and its not clever.
And here's why.
Ok, so we ...
April 23rd 2008
Why the first answer to a problem, is nearly always second best.
Programmers by nature are problem solvers, clients come to the table with a problem, and its our job to tell the computer how to solve it. Unfortunately I've discovered that all too often the first solution to a problem becomes the only solution, as humans we are inheritantly lazy when ...
April 6th 2008
ASP.NET News management script released.
I was giving you all a sneak peek the other day of our news management script. Well the asp.net program is now live, and available for purchase at the cost of $30 - roughly £15 quid. A bargain I hear you cry. You are all invited to come have a ...
April 2nd 2008
Sending SMS Messages using 24x and VB.NET
If any of you have ever had a need for sending SMS messages, can I suggest the excellent 24x sms API.
Please find for your enjoyment a free class to do just that, for Vb.NET.
Simply set the properties and away you go. I've never been able to get Wordpress to play ...
March 13th 2008
NHibernate. (Another Guide). For Visual Studio 2005.
NHibernate..Oh how I have struggled with you for the past day and a half or so..But eventually got there. Here's what to do with Visual Studio 2005 that they dont tell you anywhere else.
In your bin folder...I have a hibernate.cfg.xml file.. Which looks like this badboy.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2">
<session-factory>
<property ...
February 23rd 2008
5 Coding Mistakes that Designers make.
Lets face it some of us are built for coding, and some of us built for design. Its a left brain and right brain thing, I've always maintained that people are mostly one or the other. Can you be a creative coder or a logical designer? My thinking is that ...
December 16th 2007
5 lessons webdevelopers can learn from Nintendo’s WII business model.
Everyone in the gaming industry has been surprised by Nintendo's rise and rise in the video gaming market. Their new console the Nintendo WII (for those of you who have been living under a rock) has blindsided the major market dominators Microsoft and Sony. November 2006 was the first time ...
