Hosting Multiple Applications with ASP.NET aka Sweat Equity
I’ve just finished writing my first proper ASP.NET web page and just been through a mental-workout trying to get more than one of them hosting at the same time on…
Book Review: Team Geek
Another book I recently finished (quickly because I liked it) was Team Geek by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, published by those giants, O’Reilly. The book (at 194 pages), is split into 6…
Publishing an ASP.NET Website to Somee using VS 2013 Community Edition
I’ve recently started learning about ASP.NET and have therefore been hunting for a way to demonstrate the projects that I have created but on a budget basis (i.e. free!) before…
Book Review: Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner
I recently finished Python Programming for the Absolute Beginners by Michael Dawson and liked it so much that I thought I would review it for others (I sound like Victor Kiam,…
Creating a Tip Box in CSS/HTML5
I’ve recently been reading the excellent Professional Javascript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet) and couldn’t help but admire the way tips are shown in the book. That got me thinking…how…
OFSTED Heatmap – The Main Page
This is the third post (parts: one & two) in my series about how I tackled building a web application which graphically indicates when schools in my local borough of…
Three Ways To Open a Command Prompt in Windows Explorer
For various reasons, I’ve needed to open a command prompt in a directory that I have been exploring in Windows Explorer. If you are unsure what I mean by that,…
Book Review: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Right now it feels like there are 97,000 things I need to know, so I thought it was time to pick up 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Edited by Kevlin…
OFSTED Heatmap – The Requirements and Initial Design
As you can see from the title, my new web application is going to be called the OFSTED Heatmap and, as discussed in the last post, it will principally show (graphically) when…
A New Web Based Project
I’ve been thinking recently about two things concerned with OFTSED (the UK’s office for educational standards) that concern both teachers and parents. Firstly, as a parent, you often consider how…
Changing Site Header in WordPress Theme 2012 aka Adding Custom CSS
On one of my self-hosted WordPress sites, it kept niggling at me that the size of the header on the main page was so small relative to the rest of…
Using Chrome to Open Multiple Web Pages at Startup
I recently installed a piece of software to download YouTube videos and for my sins, despite carefully unticking all the ad-ware options, still managed to have some changes made to…
Every Developer Has a Story
I’ve returned to watching a lot of the videos on Channel 9 and came across an excellent blog series about people using Microsoft Technologies to create apps, called Every Developer…
Mind Map of C# and .NET
I’ve been recently playing around with XMIND, reputedly the most popular mind mapping software and so far, I really like it. To test it out and help me learn more…
Splitting a String in C#
When I was at university programming in C, I spent a lot of time writing command line (shell based) programs. In doing so, one of the things you might need…