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<p>Ted Neward has a brilliant article on MSDN entitled: Pragamatic Architecture: Layering. In it he reexamines the whole concept of splitting an application up into tiers, particularly looking at the why and more importantly when; as is WHEN is Read More

Here's some cool tips about Windows XP, including a few I didn't know about. My favourite tip is the following: You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using ‘taskkill /pid’ and the task number, or just ‘tskill’ and Read More

Philipp Lenssen has an excellent article with some fundamentals on what a good blog post should look like. Here's the salient points. Use descriptive headlines Write in Inverted pyramid style The first link is the most important one Re-intoduce code Read More

I just hate people who warp and twist facts in the interest of putting a story together. I suppose I'm a bit of a pedant sometimes; if someone says "Ah .. it was three quarters full", I'm pretty quick in pointing out "Well actually, it's only 60% full, Read More