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39 from 12 Nov 2005 to 9 Nov 2012
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2012 13

  1. Bedside Clock v3.0.1.0 for WP7 release notes
  2. From Bing To Skype
  3. It's been a while...
  4. Adventures in Posterous template design
  5. Updating my Chrome extension to manifest version 2
  6. Making a JQuery Slideshow
  7. Moving from Mercurial to Git
  8. A new app a month? Who was I kidding!
  9. Shipped Weight Tracker Facebook App
  10. A whole load of useful dev resources
  11. Version 3 of Bedside Clock App Shipped
  12. Planning about Planning, and Planning
  13. 2012 - Year of Code (and Shipping!)

2010 2

  1. Changing the type of a Visual Studio project
  2. Back at Microsoft–What I’m doing now

2009 4

  1. MSFT in GBP – playing about with Google Spreadsheets, App Engine, Python and Twitter
  2. Why I’m moving on from Microsoft
  3. An IE8 Accelerator for sharing on Posterous
  4. Experiments with my Garmin GPS and Windows Live Maps

2008 7

  1. Fixing an issue with Windows Live Toolbar and Favorites Sync
  2. Linking Fire Eagle and Twitter
  3. Using Fire Eagle to store your current location
  4. Super-fast MSDN
  5. Showing my current location using Virtual Earth
  6. ASP.Net Compilation Tool - do you want to allow updates without redeploying?
  7. Blog Relaunch

2007 3

  1. Using a parameter in a SELECT TOP statement in SQL
  2. SQL Parameters and Types
  3. Performance Counters Fun

2006 6

  1. CTRL + Click opens new tab in IE7
  2. Finding currently installed MSIs
  3. Running Visual Studio Unit Tests in NUnit GUI
  4. Starting off a new process
  5. Cool tip when using Windows Live Local
  6. Rebooting a web server remotely using iisreset

2005 4

  1. Delete and return keys not working in Visual Studio 2005
  2. Windows ISA Client 2004 has a browser tab!
  3. Using SelectSingleNode (or SelectNodes) on XML where the default namespace has been set
  4. Compulsory Introductory Post