My mate Darran is taking part in the Manchester to Blackpool cycle ride on 12/07/2009 along with other family members and friends of his brother -in-law, Neil Robinson, who died last year. During his illness, Brainstrust a UK based charity that helps people with brain tumors were of great help to Neil and the family. They are raising money Read More
Loading Java Properties Files in C#
Java style properties files are not supported in C# – so here is a class that reads and writes Java “.properties” files.
Overriding Static Methods in Java
You can’t override static methods in Java – so here are some alternative (more OO) solutions.
The Making of … Kajabity YearChart – Part 1
I am really proud of Kajabity YearChart because it is the first time I have produced a complete application all on my own and published it. Oh, I know it’s hardly a world shattering innovation – it doesn’t do very much and it’s not particularly “cool” to capture the imagination (and idle fingers) of teenagers. Read More
Windows Vista: Can’t Access Internet after Update
My daughter complained this evening that she couldn’t access the internet again on her Vista laptop – “again” because this is the second time this has happened. A month or so ago she came with the same problem and the fix turned out to be to remove one of the Windows Updates. More precisely, the Read More
Windows Shortcut to Faster Delete
I’ve been getting quite annoyed with Windows XP recently because every time I try to delete files in Windows Explorer it takes minutes or even hours – sometimes even for one small file. Until today, I’ve resorted to using a command prompt and using del <filename> or rmdir /s <directory> to delete it. This works Read More
Why so many “Incomming Links” in my Laptop WordPress? Doh!
Ok, so my genius has gone on holiday for the week! When I first came across WordPress I tried it out on my Laptop – IIS 5.1, PHP and MySQL (more posts on related problems later). Nice. Everything worked. Then, I looked at the Dashboard in more detail – amazing, I’ve only just set the Read More
Kajabity YearChart version 0.2 Released
Kajabity YearChart produces a simple Chart for any year that you can print. This is the first public release of Kajabity YearChart – previously an internal “toy”. Go to the Download page YearChart Home page
The First Post
So, here it is at last! My blog. It’s only taken about 3 years to get here after I had the idea of putting a few articles and grumbles online so everyone can enjoy (or suffer) it! Unfortunately, I’m too much of a perfectionist and I like to take care of all the details myself. Read More