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• My criteria when employing a developer

  I had interview today, so reading Scott's set of .Net questions was rather topical. I was thinking, if I was recruiting a developer, what weight would I give to the number of questions they could answer from the list compared to their knowledge or experience... Posted Feb 24 2005, 12:52 AM by MartinSp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• It is not what you know but the people you know

  For the first time in my career I am having to look for a new job because of a change in the strategy of the company where I work means that my skills are no longer required. It is a scary situation as the IT market is still a difficult one. One of things... Posted Feb 03 2005, 01:04 AM by MartinSp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• Looking back to 2004 and wondering about the future

  I really need to post a lot more. I have got it the habit of reading more than writing. 2004 was a strange year. It was a year where many people in IT serious started wondering whether they had a career that would take them through to retirement or even... Posted Dec 29 2004, 12:16 PM by MartinSp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• A dose of reality

  I have been a very prolific blogger recently as I have been very busy working on a project. We all want to work on glamourous projects but this was one of those bread butter jobs which really wants to work on but it pays the bills. A big company who has... Posted Nov 13 2004, 10:01 PM by MartinSp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• Do we learn from history? Or when you started in the industry influences the solutions you propose

  I have been thinking about writing about this subject for a while. However, the posting by Jason Sales prompted me to actually write a blog entry. When I started in computing there were no PCs, just mini computers and mainframes. The UI was mostly a green... Posted Jul 21 2004, 12:26 PM by MartinSp with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• How many versions of Visual Studio do I have to maintain ?

  The most expensive part of any project is maintaince. You think everything is working well and suddenly you get a phone call and you need to resolve a bug in the application. The trouble is the application was written with an earlier version of the .net... Posted Jul 19 2004, 07:19 PM by MartinSp with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• Embedding Gecko(Mozilla rendering engine) in a .Net application

  Over the weekend I had some spare time, so I thought I wonder if you can use the Mozilla rendering engine(Gecko) within a .Net application as easily as you can IE ? This could be important in areas where people have concerns about using IE. It turns out... Posted Jul 19 2004, 07:06 PM by MartinSp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• Sourcegear Vault does not work after installing Visual Studio Express betas ( with solution)

  I am using the excellent Sourcegear Vault product for version control and I was surprised that it would not work after I installed the Visual Studio Express beta products. The database seemed to be ok but I would get an error message if I tried to connect... Posted Jul 08 2004, 10:45 AM by MartinSp with | with no comments Filed under: Dotnet related

• Don't write off rich client apps, or why a J2EE application was rewritten

  Recently I had discussion with a friend about a project he was working on. He said he was converting a J2EE application to a .Net application. Naturally my first question was why ?? I was glad to hear that someone was doing commercial .Net development... Posted Jun 28 2004, 11:26 PM by MartinSp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related

• How many months are there in a year ?

  Silly question, but interesting if you are writing a program and you want to return the months based on the culture of the user. Instead of having to hand code all the month names all you have to do is write the following piece of code: string [] _monthNames... Posted Jun 10 2004, 08:55 PM by MartinSp with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Dotnet related