Codefounders

Hello blog, it's been a while! You've probably been wondering where I've been. Well I'm still here, I haven't gone anywhere, I've just been fat too busy doing other things. I've spent most of the last 6 months working on renovating...

I’ve always liked the song Finding My Way from Rush’s first album. It may not have won much critical acclaim but I like the song and the title seems to fit my life quite well at the moment. You may recall from a previous post that my wife has filed for...

I like Windows 7, it’s a massive improvement over Vista and my PC’s now work more responsively than a geriatric tortoise. I’ve installed Windows 7 on about 15 different machines now and my installation and upgrade experience has been painless. Until the...

And I am. Back that is. It’s been well over a year since I last posted a blog entry. So why the long absence? The short answer is because my life turned upside down 12 months ago and I found myself separated from my wife, and now I’m in the midst of an...

The .NET development landscape is awash with some fantastic tools. Visual Studio itself includes a wide range of powerful tools but there are some great free and commercial third-party tools available, including some from Microsoft themselves. One I added...

Is it just me or are glasses a nuisance? Spectacles I mean. I’ve been wearing them since I was seven and I still find them very annoying. Like when I’m getting dressed and pull something on over my head: The neck, no matter how loose always seems to catch...

Several weeks ago I made the decision to say farewell to our 11 year old cat, Lawrence. Although he was not old, (we felt he was in his prime), he became unwell and I did not want to see him suffer. My 6 year old son had some useful and very unique suggestions...

When I get the chance I listen to a broad range of IT-related podcasts. Just recently I've been catching up on some of Scott Hanselman's Hanselminutes podcasts. In one of the recent episodes I was intrigued to hear about User Voice , an online...

I learnt yesterday that Lutz Roeder, who produces the Reflector tool for .NET, has decided that it is time to move on to other things and is ceasing further development on Reflector. If you're a serious .NET developer then you'll already know...

Is time a reality? Why is it that a watched pot never boils or that time passes more quickly when you’re having fun? I keep running out of time. Perhaps because the objectives I set don’t have realistic time scales: I try to accomplish too many things...

I came across an interesting post on Green Blog yesterday which postulated that the reason why most people don't care about the environment is because they don't care about themselves. It went on to suggest that they also don't take responsibility...

For many years now software companies have been engaged in the practice of dogfooding , actively using their own products to convey their confidence in them. I was interested to read yesterday that the UK Government is dogfooding its own IT carbon reduction...

I've spent most of my day today trying to copy some files from one location to another using MSBuild. This is something I've done plenty of times before, but in this case I was trying to do something other than just copy an entire directory of...

I was speaking to my brother the other day. We lead very different lives. He’s been living in southern California for the last 20 years. (Seeing it in writing and thinking about it suddenly makes me feel old.) We were talking about life and people’s perception...

Modern business, at least in the Western economies, is predicated on continued economic growth and returns for shareholders which often results in the the ability to generate profits being viewed as the only indicator of success. I may be odd, but I've...