Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

In a few places I've worked, it seems like some people's jobs pretty much entails selecting and adding icons to development projects...

I remember Fucked Company appearing on the web around the time of the dot-com bubble bursting so perhaps the appearance of the Property Sna...

Ask anybody who's had any experience of workflow software what it is and they'd likely give you a different answer to the next perso...

In my last post I talked about validating a XOML workflow . Another way to validate a workflow is to just try and compile it and see what yo...

If you're using workflow assemblies, there is no need to validate your workflow since the compilation process has already done this for ...

I've been caught out by this twice now. If you create a new web control by creating a new class and then inheriting from Control (or som...

Windows Workflow is extensible in almost every way. But one thing I didn't realise until seeing this example is that it is possible to ...

Last time I talked about adding a property to a custom activity , this time I'll talk about validating the value of that property. So w...

I initially thought Windows Workflow was horrendously complicated, needlessly so. I've since realised that it's just exceedingly ext...

It's been around a while so it's about time I wrote down my thoughts. If you want to see the official line take a look at the Metast...

People have got their fingers burned in the past. Installing .NET 2 did cause some applications to break (OK, I can only think of Metastorm ...

Well interesting is perhaps stretching it, but certainly confusing. IE7 has been out for a long time now and it seems to have stalled at abo...

According to a report from a government think tank, house prices may be 10 times average salaries by 2025 . It's all down to supply and ...

How come my 4 year old daughter can take better photos than me? I have no idea what this is a photo of but I love it. She is also available ...

I've sold lots of my old crap on eBay, but I've got a little fed up with it. Most of the stuff I've sold isn't high value so...

I'd always presumed flickr was one of the web 2.0 sites that seemed to think it could somehow make money out of thin air. Then I was upl...

There is a new version of Windows Live Writer available. It looks prettier and has squiggly line spell checking but beyond that I don't ...

We are constantly told that investing in a water butt to water our gardens is a good thing, it saves water and hence the planet. What is nev...

I don't know much about JScript, so when I need to find out anything I head off to Google. So that's what I did when I wanted to kno...

So there's a new version of Google Analytics available which is lovely and shiny and new. But they seem to have removed the ability to s...