For some of us there has been a quiet war raging inside the Windows registry. The fight is over your shell overlay icons and their priority. I fought back! [...]
August 27, 2017
Shell Overlay Icons – The Space Wars
.NET Geographic Searches
I recently had to implement a localised search mechanism on an API. Maths and Trigonometry aren’t my strengths it has to be said. So I [...]
August 19, 2017
Docker Gotcha
I’ve just had my first Docker gotcha moment. I was happily working away using the setup detailed in my first Docker article. All was [...]
August 9, 2017
Password Sensibilities
I’ve lost count of the number of organisations I’ve worked for that have adhered to the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) [...]
August 9, 2017
PlasticSCM – Just Don’t
If you’re considering this source control tool. Stop. If you’re considering this for your development team, have mercy on them and [...]
August 8, 2017
Docker + Windows + WordPress + MySQL + PHPMyAdmin = Nirvana
The last time I did any WordPress development was over a year ago so I no longer have PHP and MySQL installed. I started marching off down my well [...]
August 6, 2017
The State of Login in 2017 – LastPass to the Rescue!!
I’ve been putting this off for far, far too long. I knew migrating to a password manager was going to be a long boring task and now I’ve [...]
July 30, 2017
SQLite Extensions for .NetStandard NuGet
I just created a couple of NuGet packages for helping to consume SQLite in .NetStandard1.5 applications. Includes all the nice Async stuff [...]
July 20, 2017
Oh Dear, Borked Your Registry Key Permissions?
I recently got so fed up with DropBox trouncing all over my shell icon overlays that I decided to attempt a drastic action. Remove the write access [...]
March 11, 2017
Windows 10 UWP – Emulator- The Revenge
I’ll tell you why UWP is suffering. The UWP flavour of XAML is a mere shadow of WPF and the emulator is shockingly hard to get working or [...]
March 1, 2017
MacBook Prolapse
Apple, seriously … you fucked up. Are you seriously telling your MacBook Pro & iPhone users that they’ll have to buy a dongle to connect [...]
October 31, 2016
Jammer Dot Bizeseses 10th Birthday Today!
Well, well, Its this ‘ere blogs 10th Birthday today! Happy Birthday!!!
October 8, 2016
Windows 7 Updates Roll-up
There’s really no doubt that Windows 7 updates have become a bit of a nightmare. Microsoft have been aggressively pushing Windows 10. Some of the [...]
May 30, 2016
Bookmarks Toolbar in FireFox Full-Screen Mode
This is a neat trick that I use in FireFox. I like to use FireFox in full-screen mode and I use the bookmarks toolbar a lot. The trouble begins when [...]
May 13, 2016
Apple Music – A Disaster for Users
This is the worst thing I’ve ever read regarding an online service. Apple Music service hijacks ALL your content – even your own created works [...]
May 6, 2016
Blender GTX980ti
So last year I upgraded from my old EVGA GTX580 Classified to a Palit GTX980ti JetStream. I expected a massive increase in performance in Blender, both in [...]
April 23, 2016
The Dangers of Self Build Web Site Platforms
This might at first appear like a form of scare mongering, or a thinly veiled sales pitch on my part but I can assure you it isn’t. I have too much [...]
April 23, 2016
A New Little Blender Render
Yup, had a little play around with an abstract blender idea the other day. Just completed the render.
April 21, 2016
ReSharper 10 Speed Woes
I love ReSharper, I really do feel slightly lost when using Visual Studio and hitting Alt+Enter doesn’t offer the same code sugar rush I’ve [...]
March 29, 2016
App Store App Submission – Continual Failure and Obfuscation
The App Store has to be one of the flakiest “services” I’ve ever had the displeasure of having forced on me. App submissions seem to [...]
March 19, 2016