Code rant

How do you sell your software product? Do you fork the source code of your previous customer, modify it a little and deploy it as its own in...

Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell for a .NET Rocks episode on RabbitMQ and EasyNetQ. ...

Anthony Moloney got in touch with me recently. He’s using EasyNetQ , my simple .NET API for RabbitMQ, with his team in Kenya. Here’s an emai...

I’ve spent the last five years implementing and thinking about service oriented architectures. One of the core benefits of a service orien...

I’ve been using Visual Studio for over 10 years, but still keep on learning new tricks. That’s because I learn things very slowly dear reade...

Unix time is the time value used in Unix based operating systems and is often exposed by Unix based APIs. To convert it to, or from, a .NET...

Thanks for everyone who had a go at my Geek Christmas Quiz . The response was fantastic with both Iain Holder and Rob Pickering sending m...

God rest ye merry gentlemen! Welcome to my 2012 Geek Christmas Quiz. Every Friday morning at 15below we have a ‘DevEd’ session. Usually this...

I’ve been having a lot of fun writing a little ‘re-tweeter’ this morning. We basically want to monitor our user stream and then re-tweet any...

WebRequest, or rather HttpWebRequest has the annoying behaviour or throwing a WebException when the server returns 404 ‘not found’ status, o...