A software engineering and leadership blog

I think I'm a fairly typical developer in that doing front end work is something I'm not very good at and simply have to put up with. That being the true I normally wouldn't bother blogging about it. But in this case I came across an odd problem which confused... [Read More]

Over the past couple of weeks I've started to rewrite a project I wrote a few years ago using Sharp Architecture and ASP.NET MVC 1. I wanted to update to ASP.NET MVC 3 and remove the dependency on Sharp Architecture which would force me to implement a lot more functionality myself, and... [Read More]

I started mountain biking about a year ago after being forced to stop playing basketball because of a horrific knee injury. I'm only joking it wasn't horrific at all, just mildly inconvient. I learned to ride, as a lot of people do, when I was a kid. So I've been... [Read More]

Over the past few years I've come to believe that when building web applications in fairly small teams, .NET has the edge over Java. I have come to this conclusion having started my career using Java, then subsequently moved on to .NET, all the while working on web applications in small... [Read More]

I've been meaning to automate some if not all of the build on the project I work on for some time. Initially I considered NANT, because I have previous experience with ANT, and MSBuild. After a very small amount of research I decided that MSBuild was the way to go. It's really a... [Read More]