CallContext

One of the hardest things to get right about being a software developer is estimating the time it takes to develop and test a particular bit of functionality. There have litterally been hundreds of books and articles written on the almost as numerous number of techniques. Read More

Here's something I cobbled together to mimic the Java ThreadLocal class. I wanted a nice way to wrap up the CallContext class, I call it "CallLocal". It provides typesafe access through generics, which saves a bit of typing (no pun intended). Read More

Well, that's the key to the whole thing. The timezone settings are preventing me from having the posts show up with the correct date and time from my point of view. It's not really going to matter, but it's going to look like I'm posting at very weird times. Read More

Whilst I'm becoming quite prolific, I'm not having much success. I've realised I'm a bonehead when it comes to the time on a post. I've set my regional time settings correctly, but posts are showing up stamped in another timezone. Read More

I just had my first blog post loss. I spent about half an hour typing in this wonderful entry on the musical aspect of my life, and when I posted it, it dissapeared.As they say in the Toyota adds, bugger. Read More

Wow! At the same time I decide to start blogging, Robert Scoble leaves Microsoft. Coincidence?... Read More