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Insurance against LeftPad level events
3 Jun 2016
When it comes to dependencies, there are two extremes in software development. Complete ownership of everything right down to the…
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Breaking into the opinionated, disjointed world of web development
12 Mar 2016
Again and again, I find web development one of the most fascinating of all the disciplines I’ve come across in…
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Fantasy Football Team Selector 2014-15
3 Aug 2014
It’s that time of year again to update the data in my English Premier League, Fantasy Football Team Selector spreadsheet.…
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Converting XML to JSON
12 Jul 2014
XML and JSON are the two most common generic standards for passing representation state information in web APIs. So when…
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Fantasy Football Team Selector 2013-14
3 Aug 2013
It’s that time of year again. Here is the updated Excel Spreadsheet for helping you choose a great Fantasy Football…
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XML Serialisation
11 Mar 2013
Recently at work I was confronted by a problem requiring data persistance outside of a database – in this case,…
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Fantasy Football League Team Selector 2012-13
7 Aug 2012
UPDATED VERSION: Fantasy Football Team Selector 2013-14 It’s that exciting time of year again. I know, I know, London 2012…
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Modular WPF Interfaces
12 Jul 2012
Imagine a completely modularised approach to designing user interfaces. For instance, say you design a user interface with one or…
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Caveats on actually using async and await
19 Oct 2011
With the next release of .Net making a big push for parallelism-for-everyone-made-easy, I thought I’d take this opportunity to see…
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Simple WPF IronPython Application
17 Oct 2011
A project I recently started working on required me to install Python on my development environment – something I’ve not…