Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

Yesterday our pet chinchilla Elmo bit the dust. He had been ill for several weeks. He'd stopped eating and a visit to the vet and some ...

I downloaded and installed IE8 beta 1 primarily to have a look at the new XDomainRequest object which allows for cross-domain requests. Unf...

I'm not one for making predictions. OK, I've made a few in my time but I'm invariably wrong. Predicting that the majority of IE...

I don't know about you but a lot of my web searches bring up Experts Exchange articles. When you first look at the page, it looks like y...

In the first two parts of this series I've given a brief introduction to the integration of Windows Workflow into Metastorm BPM 7.6. F...

I've had this for a while, some of the Flash content on the BBC website wouldn't play (although this is better than the problems I h...

In part 1 I discussed the new Windows Workflow features in Metastorm BPM 7.6. I'll now move onto the database tables used by WF workflo...

I got a lovely book for Christmas, "Factory Records - The Complete Graphic Album" , which shows off the artwork for most of the al...

I was aware that it was possible to add code to a XOML workflow but I hadn't actually seen any examples of it, until I started looking i...

The new version of Metastorm BPM, 7.6, has several new features (and I may do a full review at some point), but the one that interests me th...

Iraq doesn't get in the news much currently, with natural disasters and global financial problems overtaking it in the headlines. But a ...

It's odd that I watched pretty much every episode of Absolutely when it was on and yet I'd completely forgotten about its existence...

Previously I came up with a reasonable approach to executing a child XOML workflow asynchronously but what I was really after was executing...

I have to admit to liking iTunes, but one thing I don't like is all the crap it installs alongside it. Some of this stuff is probably es...

Getting a list of the services loaded into the workflow runtime is pretty simple. Here's some code to do it. using System; using Syste...

The built-in InvokeWorkflow activity requires a compiled workflow type which isn't too useful if you're trying to execute a XOML-bas...

OK, perhaps my dream of a world without money lenders is a pipe dream, but if that isn't a possibility then how about we cut out the mi...

There's an ad for BT on the telly currently in which a mother talks to her partner about her worries for her daughter who's spending...

Somebody posted a comment to my little rant about 0871 numbers . Initially I thought it was just someone trying to defend the use of 0871 nu...

As of today, if you go to Live Maps and you're based in the UK, you get redirected to Multimap instead. It's still possible to get...