Guy Harwood

Came across this just now via twitter - http://www.keithclark.co.uk/labs/cssagent/

 I've had this book for quite some time now and it definitely deserves a long overdue review.  I was looking for something that gave an up to date insight on how real applications are built using some of the most popular and proven patterns.  There are too many books around that go head first into one specific way of doing things, and it quickly becomes apparent that you cant apply a lot of the techniques to real world situations.  This book is not one of those. 

NDepend is a code analysis tool for Visual Studio, allowing you to measure code quality using various techniques included within the software package that plugs quite neatly into Visual Studio.

This one has got me a few times. 

After running with a somewhat disconnected set of tools (vs 2008, Ontime, sharepoint 2007) for managing our projects we decided to make the move to Team Foundation Server 2010.  With limited coverage of the product available online i went in search of a book and found this…

I've been using the 960 Grid system for a while on some of my personal projects and if like me you are no css ninja its convenient for sidestepping the usual nightmare of a good cross browser layout, and allows you to move on to the nitty gritty code and functionality.

Attached to this post is an excel spreadsheet i use for populating drop down lists for choosing countries.

I came across a nasty issue when i installed the Advanced Logging feature for IIS7 via the Web Platform Installer on my Windows 2008 Server.  Basically, after installation and reboot none of my sites were working and returned 503 – Internal Server Error.