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Another Microsoft Certification acquired!
Ever since gaining my MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) and MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer) certificates at the end of 2011 and the early part of 2012 I’ve had an...
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DDD East Anglia Conference Write-Up
This past Saturday, 29th June, saw the inaugural DDD East Anglia conference. This is the latest addition to the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper events that take place all over the UK and sometimes around...
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I’m now a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer!
Ever since my last post about Microsoft Certification, I’ve been slowly beavering away to study and take the two remaining exams that would allow me to be recognised as a Microsoft Certified Solutions...
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DDD North 2013 In Review
On Saturday 12th October 2013, in a slightly wet and windy Sunderland, the 3rd DDD North Developer conference took place. DDD North events are free one day conferences for .NET and the wider...
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Mercurial Pushes and the authorization failure of doom!
Ever get the notorious “abort: authorization failed” message from a Mercurial “push” command?? You are not alone! It seems the way to fix this is to always ensure that the Bitbucket username is...
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I’m now an MCPD!
Ever since I passed my MCTS exam back in December last year, I’ve been hard at work doing further study and practice to attempt to pass the follow-up exam 70-576: PRO: Designing and Developing...
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JavaScript / jQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2012
I blogged a while ago about a rather ugly and hacky way in which you could get the goodness of jQuery (and general JavaScript) IntelliSense in the Razor editor in Visual Studio 2010’s IDE. This...
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SSH over SSL with BitBucket & GitHub.
I’ve recently decided to switch to using SSH (Secure Shell) access for all of my repositories on both BitBucket & GitHub. I was previously using HTTPS access, however this frequently means that...
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I’m now an MCSD in Application Lifecycle Management!
Well, after previously saying that I’d would give the pursuit of further certifications a bit of a rest, I’ve gone and acquired yet another Microsoft Certification. This one is Microsoft Certified...
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DDD East Anglia 2014 Review
Well, it’s that time of year again when a few DDD events come around. This past Saturday saw the 2nd ever DDD East Anglia, bigger and better than last year’s inaugural event.I’d set off on the...
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DDD North 2014 In Review
This past Saturday, 18th October 2014, saw another DDD (Developer, Developer, Developer) event. This one was the 4th annual DDD North event, this year held at the University Of Leeds. After arriving...
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DDD South West 6 In Review
This past Saturday 25th April 2015 saw the 6th annual DDD South West event, this year being held at the Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre in Bristol. This was my very first DDD South West event, having...
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SSH with PuTTY, Pageant and PLink from the Windows Command Line
I’ve recently started using Git for my revision control needs, switching from Mercurial that I’ve previously used for a number of years. I had mostly used Mercurial from a GUI, namely TortoiseHg, only...
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OWIN-Hosted Web API in an MVC Project – Mixing Token-based auth with FormsAuth
One tricky little issue that I recently came across in a new codebase was having to extend an API written using ASP.NET Web API 2.2 which was entirely contained within an ASP.NET MVC project. The Web...
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MVC Razor Views and automated Azure deployments
The other day, I decided that I’d publish a work-in-progress website to an Azure Website. This was a free Website as part of the free package that Azure subscribers can use. The website was a plain...
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DDD North 2015 In Review
On Saturday 24th October 2015, DDD North held its 5th annual Developer Developer Developer event. This time the event was held in the North-East, at the University of Sunderland. As is customary for...
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Stacked 2015 In Review
On Wednesday 18th November 2015, the third Stacked event was held. The Stacked events are community events primarily based around Windows development. The events are free to attend and are organised...
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SQLBits 2016 In Review
On 7th May 2016 in Liverpool, the 15th annual SQLBits event took place in the new Liverpool Exhibition Centre. The event had actually been running since Wednesday 4th, however, as with all other...
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Beware NuGet’s filename encoding!
The other day, I was troubleshooting some issues that had occurred on a deployment of some code to a test server. Large parts of the application were simply not working after deployment, however, the...
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I’m now an MCSD in Application Lifecycle Management!
Well, after previously saying that I’d would give the pursuit of further certifications a bit of a rest, I’ve gone and acquired yet another Microsoft Certification. This one is Microsoft Certified...
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