Post Archives

• 2024

  • December

    • Windows Defender detects Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml in a zipped .NET 9 AOT binary

  • May

    • Running Corel Linux on QEMU

  • March

    • Using the Contour ShuttleXpress with Camtasia

  • February

    • Recording Meetups

  • January

    • Custom Validation Attributes in ASP.NET Core 8
    • Choosing a Chat App For Your Tech Event
    • Fixing 'Version conflict detected for Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Common'

• 2023

  • August

    • The Hang of Thursdays #7
    • The Hang of Thursdays #6
    • The Hang of Thursdays #5

  • July

    • The Hang of Thursdays #4
    • The Hang of Thursdays #3
    • Travelling with Tiny Guitars
    • The Hang of Thursdays #2
    • The Hang of Thursdays #1
    • The Social Meltdown
    • What Should 'Cancel' Do?

  • January

    • What's in a (Version) Number?

• 2022

  • November

    • Modern Frontends Live

  • September

    • The Road To Guitaraoke, Part 1: Vamp, Chordino, ImageSharp, and ffmpeg
    • Fun with Docker and /etc/hosts

  • July

    • Reinstalling Windows (again)

  • June

    • Rebooting the London .NET User Group

  • April

    • A VBA macro for storyboarding PowerPoint slide decks
    • “The Art of Code” Workshops with fwdays to support Ukraine

  • February

    • Database already exists when running EF Core migrations

  • January

    • Securing Admin Pages with ASP.NET and Azure AD

• 2021

  • November

    • Copying Your Hard Drive With Robocopy

  • August

    • On The Road Again

  • July

    • UK Road Signs (Redesigned by Google)
    • How (Not) to Respond to a CFP
    • Java Criminally Underhyped? Not Back in 1997.

  • June

    • Introduction to Distributed Systems with .NET: A Live Online Workshop with fwdays
    • The ONYX BOOX Note Air: Android 10.0 on an E-Ink Tablet
    • Guru Meditation and Bad Error Messages

  • February

    • Online Workshops in 2021

  • January

    • Adding Events to a Google Calendar via a Link
    • Petrucci: A Rockstar interpreter in TypeScript: Part 1 & 2

• 2020

  • December

    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 25: Ninite
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 24: Mailtrap
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 23: Autoruns
    • Holidays in the Holodeck
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 22: Beyond Compare
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 21: EarTrumpet
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 20: OBS
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 19: Canva and Unsplash
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 18: GitKraken
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 17: Carbon
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 16: 7-Zip
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 15: Paletton
    • Solving Advent of Code in Amstrad LOGO
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 14: Typora
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 13: Chrome Dino Game
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 12: Open Hardware Monitor
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 11: Audacity
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 10: Fira Code
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 9: Microsoft PowerToys
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 8: Instant Eyedropper
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 7: ngrok
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 6: Franz
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 5: WClock
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 4: X-Box Game Bar
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 3: Reincubate Camo
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 2: WinDirStat
    • Dylan's Advent of Cool Nerd Things Day 1: Sizer

  • November

    • Spark - a tiny standalone HTTP server
    • Using HTTPS with Kestrel in .NET Core

  • September

    • Whatever Happened to "Don't Be Evil"?

  • August

    • Where's the YouTube Video?

  • July

    • How I Write Timed Talks
    • Workshop: Introduction to Distributed Systems with .NET
    • Using Canon DSLR Cameras as Webcams
    • Stay In, Rock Out: I'm Playing Live Online!

  • May

    • Locking Down & Levelling Up, Part 1: New Computer Time
    • Running Jekyll on WSL2
    • Piedroit: A Raspberry Pi-powered USB Footpedal (Part 2)
    • Piedroit: A Raspberry Pi-powered USB Footpedal (Part 1)
    • Microphone Tips for Remote Presentations
    • Online Presentation Tips

  • April

    • Going Virtual with NDC Copenhagen

  • March

    • Going Virtual, Part 3
    • Going Virtual, Part 2
    • NDC Online Community Ambassador
    • Going Virtual, Part 1

  • February

    • Spleeter: Like Unbaking a Cake, but for Music

  • January

    • Look! I Made a Company!
    • Speaking and Playing at GOTO Oslo 2020

• 2019

  • December

    • Shaving the Jekyll Yak
    • NDC Meetups in Portugal in January
    • Better Meetings with Agenda Defender

  • October

    • About That Meetup.com Announcement
    • Publishing Talks

  • August

    • Migrating from Blogger to GitHub Pages

  • May

    • Saint-Petersburg, Russia - Tips for Tech Travellers

  • March

    • A release notes bookmarkdownlet for Pivotal Tracker

• 2018

  • November

    • PostgreSQL, Heroku, .NET Core and npgsql

  • August

    • The Horrors Lurking in your Legacy Codebase

  • July

    • Reflections on Alt.NET Birmingham 2018

  • January

    • Tech and travel in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

• 2017

  • December

    • Thank you for flying Analysis Airways

  • November

    • Goodbye Spotlight… Hello Skills Matter!
    • London .NET User Group Open Mic Night

  • October

    • Why You Weren’t Picked For NDC London

  • September

    • London, London, Uber Alles

  • August

    • Generating self-signed HTTPS certificates with subjectAltNames

  • July

    • Deployment Through the Ages
    • Securing Blogger with CloudFlare and HTTPS
    • Summer 2017 .NET Community Update
    • Use Flatscreens

  • June

    • Interview with Channel 9 at NDC Oslo

  • May

    • Interview with habrahabr.ru about HTTP APIs in .NET

  • April

    • It Works On My Machine!
    • Robert M. Pirsig on "Stuckness"
    • There’s a problem with the phalange!
    • The Pursuit of APIness: The Secret to Happy Code

  • March

    • Goodbye ECMAScript; hello UKMAScript!
    • It's a bug! It's a feature! It's… a limitation of the fundamental design of your test framework?

  • February

    • Progressive.NET 2017 : Call for Themes
    • Bring back alt.NET? But… why?
    • Naming Things is Hard: Spotlight Edition

  • January

    • Semantic Versioning with Powershell, TeamCity and GitHub
    • Sharing a Dropbox folder using Bootcamp and exFAT
    • My Life with the Microsoft Natural Keyboard

• 2016

  • November

    • IdentityServer, OpenID Connect and Microsoft CRM Portals

  • October

    • The Laws of Distributed Systems
    • The Mystery of the Chinese Junk

  • September

    • Upcoming Conferences and User Group Talks

  • July

    • Affordances, Signifiers, and Cartographobia
    • ASP.NET Authentication with Adxstudio
    • ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance

  • June

    • Why I'm Voting Remain: Social Media Redux
    • Why I’m Voting to Remain in the European Union.
    • Join us at the Progressive.NET Tutorials 2016!

  • May

    • The Next Big(int) Thing
    • We're Gonna Build a Framework!
    • London.NET User Group – A Progressive.NET Special!

  • April

    • Hintjens
    • Coming Soon To A City Near You…
    • The Axosoft GitKraken Songwriting Battle!
    • Exupérianism: Improving Things by Removing Things

  • March

    • How to *really* break the internet.

  • February

    • The Mysterious Case of the Latin General: Collations in SQL Server
    • Better Hypermedia Through Obfuscation
    • “How Can Software Be So Hard?”

  • January

    • Let’s Talk About Feedback
    • “The Face of Things to Come” from PubConf
    • Would you like to speak at London .NET User Group in 2016?
    • Conway’s Law and the Mythical 17:00 Split
    • The Rest of ReST at NDC London
    • Confession Time. I Implemented the EU Cookie Banner
    • Restival Part 6: Who Am I, Revisited
    • Restival Part 5: Who Am I?
    • In London next Saturday? Come to PubConf!

• 2015

  • December

    • Restival Part 6: Who Am I, Revisited
    • Restival Part 5: Who Am I?

  • September

    • Membership and Dynamics CRM - How's It All Going, Then?

  • August

    • Dynamics CRM Online: Any SMTP Server You Like! (as long as it's Gmail or Yahoo)
    • As a Developer, I Want to Abolish User Stories, So That I Can Ship Great Products Faster.

  • July

    • The Mysterious Case of the Missing Milliseconds

  • June

    • REST Workshop at Progressive.NET 2015 next week
    • Slides and code from NDC Oslo 2015
    • Restival Part 4: Deployment and Fun with Case Sensitivity

  • May

    • Restival Part 2 Revisited: Attribute Routing in WebAPI
    • Restival Part 3: Hello, World!
    • Restival Part 2: All Aboard The Routemaster

  • April

    • One API, Four Frameworks: The Great .NET ReST Showdown
    • Spotlight, Dynamics CRM, and the age-old question of “build vs buy”
    • Spotlight, Dynamics CRM, and the age-old question of “build vs buy”

• 2014

  • May

    • NSBCon 2014 – All About NServiceBus

  • January

    • How to read FormsAuthentication.Timeout in .NET 3.5
    • Friday Puzzle Time! (aka EU Roaming Data Charges)

• 2013

  • December

    • The Joy of GUIDs

  • October

    • Automatic Semantic Versioning with GitHub and TeamCity

  • August

    • Building a ServiceStack-based OAuth2 resource server using DotNetOpenAuth

  • June

    • Linking Subversion Commits to Pivotal Tracker on Windows using Powershell

  • March

    • Adventures in Querying with RavenDB

• 2012

  • December

    • Adventures with Powershell and Amazon EC2 (part 1)

  • October

    • The Joy of Forms Authentication, IIS7 and Device Profiles
    • Rocksmith for Guitar Players
    • Ripping Off Paying Customers the Ubisoft Way

  • August

    • SECURITY_DENIED_BY_MIMEMAP Hosting WCF Services in IIS 7 Classic Mode
    • Planning Poker… with LOLCATS

  • March

    • Cross-Domain Forms Authentication with ASP.NET

  • February

    • Snowcode 2012

• 2011

  • October

    • GiveCamp UK 2011 – A Retrospective

  • September

    • Moleskine + Kindle = ... Moleskindle?
    • Software Development - HORSE-style

  • August

    • SkillsMatter Progressive.NET Tutorials 2011

  • June

    • Just Do It: Command-Query Segregation, Nike-Style
    • How to install "Active Directory Users and Computers" on your Windows 7 Workstation
    • Why Cloning Classic Games in Javascript Makes for a Great Hack Day
    • Notes from the KaboomJS! LonDev Hack-Day

  • April

    • Want to work for Spotlight?
    • Slides and Notes from “So You Think You Know JavaScript”
    • Churn-down Charts
    • Development Methodologies

  • March

    • I’ll be talking about JavaScript at Skills Matter on April 5th

  • February

    • True Names, and Other Dangers: What Dr. Seuss Can Teach Us About SoA
    • Making HttpContext.Current Available Within a WCF Service
    • Check Out smtp4dev if You Build Mail-Enabled Software on Windows
    • How to host Git in the same Apache server that comes with CollabNet Subversion
    • Running IIS and Apache on the same Windows 2008 R2 Server

  • January

    • “Choose Life” For DBAs
    • Mapping a Drive Letter to a Subversion Repository with CollabNet, WebDrive and WebDAV

• 2010

  • December

    • Christmas, Crisis and the Cloud

  • November

    • Git Logos and Icons
    • Sending Templated E-mail using the Spark View Engine
    • Should “Cancel” cancel the cancellation, or just cancel the cancellation cancellation?

  • October

    • “If It Ain’t Broke…” – Why Good Code Doesn’t Guarantee Happy Users
    • Making iPhone Ringtones using Free Software
    • /usr/bin/tawgo: Instant Geek Cred for Movies
    • Stap Me Vitals! Scanning Domain Servers using System.Management

  • September

    • Five Things I Wish My iPhone Did
    • Fun with Powershell, SQL Backup and Automated Restores
    • Want a Free Red Gate Tool to Support Your Open-Source .NET Project?
    • .NET String Formatting Cheat Sheet
    • Automating Secure FTP Backups to a Windows 2008 Server

  • August

    • Heisenbug of the Day: IIS 7.0 Discarding POST Data From Firefox 3 when using Custom 404 Handlers

  • April

    • Uncle Bob’s Bowling Kata in Functional C#
    • Dynamic CSS with .less at the TechDays Open Source Evening

  • March

    • A Manager’s Perspective - Why Attend Progressive.NET Tutorials?

  • February

    • Fun and Games with NHibernate and String Keys

• 2009

  • December

    • Fun with msdeploy, Extended Protection and Windows Authentication

  • November

    • Axure RP: Lego For Software Designers
    • A (Slightly Faster) URL Resolver Module for ASP.NET MVC
    • A URL Resolver Module for ASP.NET MVC
    • Code from my HTML5 / MVC2 Talk at SkillsMatter

  • October

    • You Forgot to Say the Magic Word…
    • Is doctype.com a License Too Far for Stack Overflow?
    • Is There Such A Thing As Test-Driven Maintenance?
    • There Can Be Only One. Or Two. Or Three, but Never Four.
    • Hey… My World Wide Web Went Weird!
    • RESTful Routing in ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2
    • Coordinating Web Development with IIS7, DNS and the Web Deployment Tool
    • A Neat Trick using Switch in JavaScript

  • September

    • I love this photograph.
    • A Better Example of Command-Query Separation
    • AltNet Beers – Command/Query Separation with Udi Dahan
    • Determining FluentNH Schema Mappings based on Entity Namespaces

  • August

    • The Problem with Stack Overflow
    • Alt.Net UK Conf – Unit Testing WinForms UIs

  • July

    • Tool Time

  • June

    • Managing Loosely-Ordered Collections : Lopsided Fun with NHibernate
    • What If They Ran The Trains For Free?
    • White Noise and Chaos
    • NHibernate / Castle ByteCode provider – are you running the right number of bits?
    • Just for Fun: The Webcam Teleprompter Shroud Experiment

  • May

    • Speaking at SkillsMatter Open Source .NET Exchange III
    • Room Service Oriented Architecture
    • What If SQL Had Abstract Tables And Composite Types?
    • Offsite Backup Recommendations for Really, Really Big Files?
    • Unsubscribe (aka ‘the Internet Way of Saying “It’s Not You, It’s Me.”’)

  • April

    • A Weird Little Quirk with Windows 7, Outlook 2007 and NormalEmail.dotm
    • Hey, Apple. DVD + iPod - Make It Happen. Here’s How.

  • March

    • Exifacto – a Nicer EXIF Library for .NET
    • Just One More Reason to Love Red Gate Software

  • February

    • Critical Mass
    • Blog woes…
    • A Post About Nothing, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Nullable
    • Specs, Bugs & Rock’n’Roll
    • OCTV: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You?
    • SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard
    • Videos from SkillsMatter Open Source .NET Exchange
    • Is a Crisp a Value Object?

  • January

    • jQuery at WebTech Exchange 2009
    • jQuery at SkillsMatter Open Source .NET Exchange
    • The Story of the Lazy-Loading Lunchbox
    • Two things I'd love to see in my next mobile phone

• 2008

  • December

    • Mocking the QueryString collection in ASP.NET
    • Open Source .NET Exchange
    • Stuff You'll Wish You'd Known When You Switched To 64-bit Windows
    • Fun with Server.GetLastError() in classic ASP on Windows Server 2008

  • November

    • Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
    • HQL-lo World
    • Usability Tip of the Day: Label your Form Elements, Dammit.
    • Working on ASP.NET MVC Beta and Preview code side-by-side
    • A Rant about RAID, with a Bad Metaphor about Eggs, and No Happy Ending.
    • The Roadcraft of Programming
    • Huagati DBML Tools for Linq-to-SQL

  • October

    • Help! I have Multiple Internet Personality Disorder!
    • Adding a work-in-progress to Subversion
    • Googling the Zeitgeist
    • Updated VS2008 / Castle / NHibernate solution bundle
    • Cycling, Eyedroppers and the Benefits of Laziness Applied with the Proper Tools
    • ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 and Linq-to-SQL - One Month On

  • September

    • A Ready-To-Hack Visual Studio 2008 Solution including NHibernate and Castle Active Record
    • Making Your SVN mod_dav_svn Repository Firefox-Friendly

  • August

    • Colour transformation in .NET and GDI+... aka "What Is The Matrix?"

  • July

    • Crazy from the Heat...
    • Gadgets and Gizmos Time...

  • May

    • Strongly-Typed View References with ASP.NET MVC Preview 3
    • Let's Usurp "Web 3.0" and Do Something Useful With It...
    • The Future of Subversion?
    • I Want Tony Stark's Build Server (with possible "Iron Man" Spoilers...)
    • Subversion + WebDAV + Wiki = Cool. Fact.
    • Getting Started with Confluence
    • Firing Static Events from Instance Methods in C#

  • March

    • The OUTPUT clause in SQL Server 2005

  • February

    • Encoding videos for the Xbox 360 using ffmpeg
    • Reflections on Alt.Net.UK