So I’ve done it. I’ve decided to delete Facebook from my life. Sorry Zuck, you’ve breached my trust one last time and [...]
April 20, 2018
Delete Facebook
UI developers are the tarts of the programming world
March 6, 2018
Dear Procurement Department
I understand that you like to standardise the computers in your business. The ease of maintenance and support is a huge topic, I get that. I also get that [...]
January 25, 2018
Meltdown / Spectre Speculation Issues
So, we are in Meltdown! Thanks for this Intel. So, Intel has been having a very hard time lately. AMD has more or less just blind-sided [...]
January 11, 2018
No Comp Sci degree? == No Interview
Well really? I’ve only been turned down for an interview once with this stated as the reason. With 20+ years in IT behind me that’s [...]
October 24, 2017
Shell Overlay Icons – The Space Wars
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
.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
You have to cede so much power to the government to ensure equality of outcome that tyranny is inevitable.
May 10, 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