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Have you ever seen something on TV and thought ‘how fascinating – but I’ll never get to use that’. That’s what I thought when I saw Richard Hammond explaining about the Helical Strake in his series ‘Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections’. Although...

I didn’t know software developers could suffer from writer’s block, until I accepted a commission to develop a piece of software that should have amounted to about 10 man days’ work. The project took me over a year of elapsed time to complete, and many...

I’m involved in the running of GTi Business Network , a local face-to-face networking group and I’ve attended many others. Some people are clearly consummate networkers, but there are others who don’t seem to ‘get it’. From the guy who aggressively pushes...

If you’re a software engineer using .NET languages, you’ll know about Reflector for .NET, a useful tool for examining and decompiling .NET assemblies. Reflector, originally written by Lutz Roeder now distributed by Red Gate Software , has been a staple...

When I opened Spotify today, I received the following notice: I’m not sure if their advertising funded business model failed, whether they got greedy or whether the music labels pulled the plug, but it seems that from now on, spotify users will be required...

I’ve been changing the way I develop software over the last few months. It has been a somewhat difficult but worthwhile journey for me and I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned. Why? Unit testing and test driven development serves several purposes...

Day 3 with my iWALK-Free “peg leg” and I’m back at work. For me, a self-employed entrepreneur, this is a massive win over crutches. Employers take note. If you have staff ‘on the sick’ with a lower leg injury, why not offer them one of these devices?...

It’s been clear for some time that the next casualty of The Internet was going to be publishing. Amazon absolutely nailed the e-book industry with their Kindle e-book reader. The printed book publishing industry, though, is in trouble. It’s now easy for...