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Welcome! This is my tech blog, my personal feed, and generally home to some of my private ideas, thoughts, rants, etc...
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Highlights from Silverlight User Group UK #11 (04 February 2010)
My top highlights from last night's 11th Silverlight User Group UK at Microsoft's customer service centre in London. [Google's cache of official blog post by the community organisers (blog currently down)] - Event Twitter hashtag: #SLUG ...
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Global Radio launches new online media player (01 February 2010)
The UK's biggest commercial radio company, Global Radio, launched a new version of their famous online radio player today, which I built over the past few weeks using Microsoft's web platform. Powered by the newest and most exciting new web tec ...
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Talk to me! (21 January 2010)
Comments page for your general feedback on any topic Use this page to tell me what you think! Speak your mind. Speak freely. Try to think in terms of an open, two-way conversation. Tip: if you use a fake email address, your co ...
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Take control of your website’s URLs in ASP.NET with a custom HttpModule (17 December 2009)
How to set-up a custom HttpModule to enforce site-wide URL rules In this article I'll show you how to add a custom HttpModule to your website, using my RedirectModule as a simple, quick and easy example. Why use custom HttpModules? When creating a ...
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BBC and private sector announce major new cross-industry media player project for the UK (19 November 2009)
A consortium of UK media companies, including the BBC and major commercial broadcasters, today announced a major new project to build a national cross-industry UK media player. Private sector companies involved include Global Radio, the UK's largest c ...
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