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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…

Posted on: May 30, 2016
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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…

Posted on: May 13, 2016
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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 -…

Posted on: May 6, 2016
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Blender GTX980ti

So last year I upgraded from my old EVGA GTX580 Classified to a Palit GTX980ti JetStream. I expected a massive…

Posted on: April 23, 2016
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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…

Posted on: April 23, 2016
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A New Little Blender Render

Yup, had a little play around with an abstract blender idea the other day. Just completed the render.

Posted on: April 21, 2016
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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…

Posted on: March 29, 2016
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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…

Posted on: March 19, 2016
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var thisIsSo = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);

– .NET Brain Fart

The Decline of Ebay

Ebay used to be great. Today, however, was the last nail in the coffin for me. Either as a seller,…

Posted on: March 6, 2016
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My Life With a MacBook Pro – 3 Years In

Hmm ... where to start? I had to buy a MacBook, I need to write and compile apps for iPhones…

Posted on: February 27, 2016
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TeamCity – Sharing Build Properties

Sharing parameters and properties can be a bit confusing for new users of TeamCity. Lets use a simple example to…

Posted on: February 26, 2016
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Xamarin iOS TeamCity Build

So this turned into a complete nightmare for a while. TeamCity Mac Agent Push Installation I started by trying to…

Posted on: February 26, 2016
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Source Control – Learning Git

Over the years I've used many source control systems. Most of them seemed pretty simple to use after a short…

Posted on: February 21, 2016
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Bye, Bye Parallels – Hello Virtual Box

So I finally did it. When I first purchased my MacBook Pro I bought a copy of Parallels 8. What…

Posted on: February 20, 2016
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MvvmCross iOS Support and Samples

A while ago Martijn van Dijk and I had a very brief chat about creating an MvvmCross iOS Support library…

Posted on: February 16, 2016
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SSD Windows 10 and The Dreaded INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

So, I this has happened to me a couple of times now and frankly it's a sham, it really is. …

Posted on: January 26, 2016
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Programming – Imagine trying to complete a puzzle whilst also designing it and cutting it out.

– Me

Abstracting APIs – Abstract Potentially Insane?

There's no doubt about it, things that help are good. This topic of abstraction came up in a chatroom the…

Posted on: December 20, 2015
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View Model Value Change Tracking in MvvmCross & Xamarin

Change tracking object contents at first might seem like an easy or straightforward task but there are lots of pitfalls…

Posted on: December 19, 2015
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