MailChimp Subscribe Button Doesn’t Appear in WordPress
I recently added a MailChimp email subscriber widget to my WordPress site and found that the Subscribe button (a fairly important feature!) didn’t appear. Fortunately, the fix is quite easy….
Converting MySQL Schema and Data Statements to SQL Server
I’ve been recently reading the book Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu and found that the example database script he supplies is very specific to MySQL. That’s understandable because the focus of the…
Podcast Anti-Patterns
I think podcasts are fantastic and have previously given a bunch of reasons why I feel that way. Since I listen to a lot of them however, over time, I have…
Some Interesting Pluralsight Course Statistics
I’ve written before about how much I love Pluralsight. I really can’t recommend the company highly enough and that’s just as a customer – you should see what the employees think…
Creating an Extension Method in C# – ROT 13
I was listening to a podcast today featuring Troy Hunt on Dot Net Rocks where he talked about how he had once written a question on Stack Overflow about what…
Pluralsight Video Review – Introduction to GIT by Geoffrey Grosenbach
I have a love-hate relationship with GIT. On the one hand, I can see that it is incredibly powerful and a hugely important suite of software for developers. What’s more, public…
ASP.NET Website #4: Jon Skeet Quotes
This is the fourth website of my project where I practise using elements of ASP.NET in order to exercise my frivolous ideas! For this one, I wanted to do something involving…
Pluralsight Video Review – C# from Scratch Parts 1 and 2
C# from Scratch Part 1 and Part 2 by Jesse Liberty (3h 11m and 1h 54m) This is the first “Beginner” video that I have seen on Pluralsight that I think…
Podcast Nuggets #3
Time flies when you’re writing Podcast Nuggets and here I am, on my third one already. I have been thinking about the fact that I listen to some quite old…
ASP.NET Website #3: Maze
This is the third in my series of creating ASP.NET web applications in order to learn more about this exciting technology 🙂 It’s been a little while coming but that’s…
Pluralsight Video Review – Build Your Career with Michael Lopp
Build Your Career with Michael Lopp by Michael Lopp (30m) I’m becoming quite a fan of interviews, especially after Change It Up!, so was happy to see that this is in the same…
Pluralsight Video Review – Becoming a .NET Developer
Becoming a .NET Developer by Jan-Erik Sandberg (4h 41m) This was the second Pluralsight course that I watched, but not the second that I have reviewed. To be honest, it is quite a…
Pluralsight Video Review – Change It Up!
Change It Up! by Rob Conery (53m) I needed an easy watch after putting in about 8 hours on a previous course, so thought that this would be a perfect relaxer,…
Pluralsight Video Review – A Beginners Guide to the Microsoft Platform
A Beginner’s Guide to the Microsoft Platform by Michael Palermo (1hr 48m) My first review of the courses and I think it is worth beginning by saying that I suppose all…
Attacking Those Pluralsight Buffer Problems
(Edit 26th July, 2015 — Added iPad Air 2 experience) (Edit: 9th March, 2015 — Added iOS app update). I’ve only recently signed up for Pluralsight and so far, I am…