A software engineering and leadership blog

ConclusionI know it's a bit strange to start with a conclusion but I just want to come out and say it, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt is one of the most interesting and useful books I have ever read. Never before has a book given me so many things to... [Read More]

Notepad++ has been my text editor of choice for a number of years now. It's got a lot more features now than when I first started using it. I've not really kept track of the additions so I thought it was about time had a good look to see what's... [Read More]

What? The Teesside basketball league (TBL) site stores all the information vital to the smooth running of the Teesside basketball league. It records team information (including match day, tip off time, venue and contact details), league standings, news, fixtures, match results, team statistics, player statistics and generally makes the world... [Read More]

ProblemI've recently experienced a few issues using the Entity Framework. I'm not ashamed to admit I swore in it's general direction on several occasions. This particular problem was updating foreign key fields (called navigation properties in the Entity Framework). I still haven't entirely decided whether Entity Framework is the problem or I'm... [Read More]

For the last few weeks I've been on the look out for some kind of application that will fill out HTML forms. This is purely for testing purposes. There's nothing more annoying that having to repeatedly fill out long forms in order to test some functionality. I wanted something that was no... [Read More]