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legislation
March 9, 2011
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EU Cookie Directive. Damaging the competitiveness of UK and EU companies.

When I started this blog I never expected I would end up writing an article about a European Community Directive. Let alone one with such […]

user experience
March 7, 2011
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User experience, alcohol and Buddhism

Last Thursday I attended an event hosted by Red Gate Software with the topic “User Experience in Software Development”. I also met with Roger Atrill […]

Future
March 2, 2011
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The Six Waves of Computing

Last year I was lucky enough to be present in the audience when Hermann Hauser gave the keynote speech for the Discovering Startups talks presented […]

conference
March 2, 2011
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Humble in the presence of greatness (or how to feel inadequate really quickly)

Last week I had the pleasure to attend a conference organised by Cambridge Wireless at Cambridge University Møller Centre, Cambridge. The event was free to […]

Life
February 14, 2011
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Banks are clueless about online security

During November I met Dave Collins from Software Promotions. I saw him presenting two talks on effective Adwords marketing and common mistakes you can make […]

Development
February 2, 2011
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DLL Version Finder

Sometimes you need to find all locations of a particular DLL on your machine and then check the version numbers. Use Windows Search then right […]

Development
November 19, 2010
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Problems when subclassing controls

I’m developing a graph control for use in our Memory Validator software tool. Tracking a mouse One of the requirements was that we need to […]

Hints and tips
November 16, 2010
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Don’t try this at home – custom control time sink

There are times when writing a custom control will waste your time like nothing on earth. I’m going to share with you a particularly painful […]

Talks & conferences
October 16, 2010
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59 seconds with Eric Ries

Yesterday I had the pleasure to visit TechHub to listen to Eric Ries talk about the lean startup. Like some others attendees I could not […]

sales
October 5, 2010
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How to sell your company to Microsoft

The business leaders network has an excellent post by Eric Sink about how he sold Teamprise to Microsoft. Great read. Eric is the author of […]

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