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What is Cruft?

Submitted on Dec 09, 2006, 4:38 p.m.
cruft /kruhft/ [back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n. An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruft; the TMRC Dictionary correctly noted that attacking it with a broom only...

CLR via C#

Submitted on Dec 09, 2006, 3:38 a.m.
CLR via C# – another great “roll your sleeves up” book. As the author says, there are a lot of “top down” books out there that will teach you how to use a tool, an application, or a framework, but...

Mixing XHTML Document Types in ASP.Net 2.0

Submitted on Nov 22, 2006, 6:32 p.m.
As site I’ve been working on recently required that all pages be XHTML Transitional compliant, with one exception. A special document page of the site needed to be in XHTML Strict format.  The...

Subversion Can't open file next-ids

Submitted on Feb 14, 2006, 9:32 a.m.
As a favour to anyone else out there that may hit this one. svn: Can't open file next-ids: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. If you see this message...

Planning

Submitted on Jun 18, 2005, 8:27 a.m.
Abraham Lincoln: “ If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe.” ...that and other lessons in 'The Art of Project Management' by Scott Berkun. I've not had my...

Yet Another Computer Programming Reading List

Submitted on Jan 02, 2005, 9:23 a.m.
One to be updated in the future. Will create a category for Theory and Fundamentals at some point. Having written a fair amount of high-level language code, VB6 and C#, I figured getting to grips...

Changi Airport and Firefox

Submitted on Dec 29, 2004, 9:16 a.m.
Waiting to board before flying back to Bangkok from Singapore. WiFi promotion here at the airport meant downloading and installing Firefox 1.0. WiFi is wonderful.

Christmas Post

Submitted on Dec 25, 2004, 9:14 a.m.
Having finally joined the online community of bloggers what better way to start than to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.   Tony