Succeeding At Every Job Interview

Posted on March 18, 2015

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... [Read More]

An Asp.net Bug From 1973

Posted on March 18, 2015

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... [Read More]

Generating Barcodes With Zen Barcode Generator

Posted on March 2, 2015

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... [Read More]

Moving From Classic Asp To Mvc5

Posted on March 1, 2015

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... [Read More]

Shoot Em Ups Album

Posted on July 16, 2012

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,... [Read More]

Modernising Church Worship Music Vs Keeping It Traditional

Posted on March 16, 2012

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... [Read More]

Friendly Urls In Classic Asp

Posted on January 4, 2011

Classic ASP, is there anything it can’t do?Well, if you’re looking at doing nice and friendly URLs, like the one for this post:http://www.metaltheater.com/post/Friendly-URLs-in-classic-ASP Yes, you can do it in ASP!Your first step is to open up IIS, click on your home directory and then go to properties. Then go to... [Read More]

I Did A Great Prank Yesterday.

Posted on February 17, 2009

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... [Read More]

New Mp3.com.au Website

Posted on August 8, 2007

Check it out! Band new DB, brand new C#.net code, new design, new player, new functionality!Breaking News - this website is still brand new and the DNS entries still need to propagate. If you see the old white website, it’ll still the old one :) www.MP3.com.au, Voice of apollo’s pageWhat... [Read More]

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