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Life update
Yet another long time between updates. Sorry about that. Not much has changed for me since the la...
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How’s it going in 2025?
Hello, again. What a long break that was? As you would have seen from the home page of this site,...
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2020 Review and Plans for 2021
I think we can all agree that 2020 was pretty rubbish! Not only did we have the pandemic, but we ...
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2019 Review and 2020 Plans
Wow, this is a really late post. Happy new year! As we're almost one month through 2020, I th...
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London Traffic Cameras app for Windows 10
Today I've launched another app for Windows 10 - London Traffic Cameras. I developed this app...
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Review of 2018, Plans for 2019
2018
2018 did have some highlights, though it was generally a rubbish year:
Mandy has be...
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A Quiet Summer
Hello, welcome back. Sorry for the radio silence over the last few months - although it's bee...
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Spring 2018 Update
Wow! It's been over six months since my last update. Sorry for the radio silence, but I'v...
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Done in 2018
Last December, I managed to get my app, Done Timesheets, into the Microsoft Store. It was a proud...
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Done for Windows 10 Released
Done for Windows 10 is now available on the Microsoft Store.
After several weeks of coding, I ...
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Becomming a Windows 10 Developer
My journey so far on developing an app for Windows 10.
Up until now I have been a web develope...
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Thoughts on the Universal Windows Platform
Some insights on coding for the latest version of Windows.
As you may have (hopefully) been re...
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Update on Done App
Done is nearly Done.
Over the last few weeks I've been developing an app for Windows 10 ca...
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Done - Initial Progress
Progress of the previous weeks work on my Windows 10 app.
Yesterday I intended to write a blog...
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Introducing Done for Windows 10
Here it is, the news I've been promising. Today, I launch a website for a new desktop ap...
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I'm Building Something
At the beginning of next week I hope to launch the new teaser site for the project I've start...
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Grace Church Highlights 2016/2017
Mandy and I continue to love being part of such a dynamic church in Nottingham. Let's hope th...
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New Project Coming Soon
After puzzling over things for the last coupe of years, I've finally settled on a project I w...
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Hello World 2017
After a couple of years of trying different options for a web site, such as Wordpress or developi...
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Programming in 2017
I started programming in the mid 1980s. We had a Spectrum 128k+2 at home, and I used a BBC Micro ...
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Handling Adversity
Yesterday we had the priviledge of hearing Pastor Tope Koleoso of Jubilee Church Enfield&nbs...
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Birthday Trip to London
Mandy and I have just returned from a short weekend break to London to celebrate my birthday. As ...
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Nottingham Light Night 2017
Every year, Nottingham City Council put on an event across the city based around the theme of lig...
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Do It Now
Earlier this evening Mandy set up and lit the fire pit we had bought in the Spring. We had planne...
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Michel Gondry's Music Video in a Shower!
Whilst browsing the Creative Review website, they pointed me to a music video Michel Go...
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Are Microsoft Giving Up?
Following on yesterdays post where I talk about testing the new version of software for...
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Happy Birthday VB
Visual Basic, or VB, is 25 years old. Happy birthday! It was the first programming language I use...
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Dreams
At a church event a few weeks ago, everyone was asked to write their dreams down on a s...
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Social Responsibility
One of the things I’m really impressed with the company I work for, iSite, is the work...
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Review of 2015
I’ve never written a review of the year before as a blog post, even though I enjoy reading ...
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Three Months In
Back in August I mentioned that I moved on from ChurchApp and started working at iSite. Well, tod...
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Goodbye August
This August has been a difficult month for Mandy and I. A number of things have all happened at t...
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Learning .Net
One thing about programmers is that we never sit still - always wanting to learn new things and k...
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Hello World
After several years of being a blogger, off and on, I've decided to start something new. My p...
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myJohnLewis Loyalty Card
John Lewis, the UK based department store, was one of the last few remaining retailers yet to lau...
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Brierlow Bar Bookstore
As I mentioned in my post on the visit to Hartington, we didn’t have long to spend the...
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Hartington
On Easter Sunday, Mandy and I went with a few friends to the village of Hartington in D...
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Weekend Links 2
More links for the weekend now, starting with…
Nightwalk in Marseille
I appreciate t...
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Nott Just a City 2014
Yesterday I took a look at a pop up exhibition that is located within the former Dwell store on F...
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Nottingham Train Station
After months of refurbishment, and partial closure, the concourse to Nottingham Train Station has...
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Weekend Links
Transport for London
The Transport for London (TfL) site is an excellent resource if you&rdquo...
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Nottingham Castle
A couple of weeks ago I saw a tweet by Nottingham City Council saying entrance to Nottingham Cast...
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Cobden Chambers
Saturday 8th March saw the opening of Cobden Chambers in Nottingham. Previously, this small court...
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Tesco Hudl Review
For the last few years I had been exclusively using Apple products – I work on an iMac, am ...
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Paris in Motion (Part I)
Paris in Motion 1 from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.
With all the focus on Londo...
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My Manifesto for Better Software
Build for the future
Try to imagine what future requests will be and put the building blocks...
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All You Need is Love
I came across the video below from the guys at 6Wunderkinder, a Berlin-based startup who pro...
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Chase Happiness
Do what makes you happy. Chase your passion and your dreams. If you love what you do, others wi...
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Pet Shop Boys - Invisible
The new Pet Shop Boys album, called “Elysium”, will be released in Septembe...
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Midnight in Paris
I’ve not seen the film Midnight in Paris yet, but this opening sequence makes me ...
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A Personal Story
Mandy has posted the story on her blog about how we found out we couldn’t have ch...
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A Mayor for Nottingham?
There is a debate going on in Nottingham at the moment, ahead of the elections on 3rd May, as to ...
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Business Lessons From the Little Paris Kitchen
Last night was the first episode in Rachel Khoo’s new series The Little Paris Kitchen on BB...
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Why I Like the New Routemaster
Today sees the new London bus on the roads. Called the Routemaster, it is a replacement...
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The best you can do
I’m one of those people who likes to read about how the people I admire in business think a...
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Ten Ways to be a Marketing Genius Like Lady Gaga
From here.
Have an opinion
Gaga regularly speaks out on issues she feels strongly ab...
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Business Design Tips
Mike Dempsey’s tips from Daniel Cray’s blog:
Seek out clients you like
Hire a...
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Would Sherlock Holmes make a good developer?
I’ve been very impressed recently with the BBC series Sherlock, the modern take on She...
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How Do You Worship a God Who is Holy?
This morning, Mandy and I went to the church we used to be members of because some frie...
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Windows 8 plans leak - has Microsoft missed the point?
It was all over the web this morning – well, the techie sites I visit – about Mi...
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What Clinched It For Me
Yesterday, Mandy and I became members of Grace Church, Nottingham. This marks the end of a y...
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Alex - another computer for novices
This week saw the launch of another computer aimed at novices. Called Alex, its a Linux based lap...
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My Take on Apples iPad
Now we’ve all had time to digest it, I thought I would offer some points about the iPad:
...
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A New Chapter
This post, my first of 2010, is about some changes that are happening/have happened and what I ca...
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Things I Learned Yesterday
Yesterday was one of those days – not the sort where everything went wrong, or a day which ...
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Personal Branding, Google and Facebook
Seth Godin posts a reminder that when you apply for jobs people will tend to search for your name...
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Opt Out of Yahoo Snooping
A colleague from the Federation of Small Business has alerted me to changes in the terms and cond...
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Using App_Code Folder in VS 2008 .Net 3.5 Projects
I’ve discovered that adding classes to a folder called App_Code in VS 2008 may not be such ...
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Is Anyone Else Worried by This?
The Register reports a plan by the UK Government to record all phone calls, text messages, instan...
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Contract
I’ve just started work for a company called i2d2 (which stands for Instructional Design and...
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Wind Farms - Think Outside the Turbine
Watching Telematin on France 2 yesterday (watched it online – don’t ask) I noticed th...
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Microsoft Access error 2185 - you can't reference a property or method for a control unless the control has the focus
Here’s a nice error I’ve been getting from a Microsoft Access database. I’ve be...
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How to Create a GUID Column in Microsoft Access
I’ve become a fan of GUIDs recently. They provide a unique ID to each row in a database tab...
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1
Here’s a warning for those who are to update Visual Studio 2005 by installing service pack ...
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Another Web Browser to Try
Most people when they think of web browsers think of Internet Explorer (the Microsoft one), or Fi...
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Get Directions from Google
My friend Faz sent me some instructions to follow on Google Maps.
Go to http://maps.google....
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Throwaway Culture
Earlier today I spent over half an hour queuing to get into our local tip (dumpit site). I was th...
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Change Control Software Completed
I’ve just completed a software application for Parker Plant which enables them to...
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Lesson in Business - Know Your Target Market
Mid-February I received an e-mail from one of the web hosts I use. They’ve just launched a ...
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New Blog for Mandy
I've finally managed to create a blog for my wife Mandy. She's started a research pr...
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Happy New Year
2007 is already under way, and looks like it’s going to be a very busy year. Here are some ...
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