Succeeding At Every Job Interview
The HR boss of google, Laszlo Bock, is spruiking his new “Work Rules!” book. As part of the promotion campaign he has written a very popular linkedin post explaining “How to win every interview with these 6 steps”. Now apart from the obvious clickbaity title, which I’m prepared to give...
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An Asp.net Bug From 1973
Today, I was coding an ASP.NET 4.5 REST api using WebApi 2, and was caught out by a problem caused by a technical decision made forty two years ago. I think I need to repeat that again. FORTY TWO years ago. (Yes, it’s spelt f-o-r-t-y, not f-o-u-r-t-y, thanks anonymous pedantic...
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Generating Barcodes With Zen Barcode Generator
Someone asked me on Sunday if it would be possible to generate a PDF that had a barcode in it. I haven’t generated a “normal” boring 2D barcode before, so I thought I’d give it a crack. I find a library named Barcode Rendering Framework, downloaded it, looked for the...
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Moving From Classic Asp To Mvc5
So the past few weeks I’ve been re-writing my website. Previously it was written in Classic ASP (yes, you read that right) and it was running off a Microsoft Access database. Yes, you read that right too. The code has served me well since I launched in 2006, and can...
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Shoot Em Ups Album
Remember those cool games in the 80’s where you shot everything in sight? Those were the best games. The music was sometimes pretty cool too - and made even better when bought into the present with some MASSIVE GUITARS.This collection features Doom 2, Commander Keen 4, R-Type, Ghouls and Ghosts,...
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Modernising Church Worship Music Vs Keeping It Traditional
Mark Peterson recently wrote an article titled Contemporary v Traditional: 8 reasons it’s hard to choose. I’d like to comment on this issue as it is one that is very close to my heart!To be upfront - I play guitar. Not wimpy acoustic guitar, but screaming 80’s metal guitar. I...
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Angry Video Game Nerd (avgn) Album
The Angry Video Game Nerd album is done! Here's a bunch of sample tracks, links and ways to listen.
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Friendly Urls In Classic Asp
Classic ASP, is there anything it can’t do?
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I Did A Great Prank Yesterday.
A collegue at work has started a war.It started when he changed my name in my outlook address book to be spelt wrong. This really annoyed me, so I repeated the favour on his machine, except I put in an extra name into his address book (his middle name which...
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