Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

So little happened today that I actually answered the door to the Jehovah’s Witnesses and tried to convert them to Atheism. I did have a cal...

Following on from my post about using Google Local Search from C#, I thought I’d try to improve it. Deserializing the JSON data ended up wi...

Croydon is “Manhattan as imagined by Le Corbusier” apparently, or so my mate Jethro says. I’d agree to an extent, except I’d have to say it’...

All these cool pieces of AJAX code are great but what if you want to use them from some server-side code? Local Search doesn’t provide any k...

To be frank I thought this would be a complete train crash of an interview. I’d been asked to do a presentation on some of the work I’d done...

So today I had a telephone interview with a potential employer and things seemed to be going pretty well. I think you can generally tell how...

I dunnow, I was kind of expecting the Job Centre to be full of terrifying men shouting ‘gisajob!’ , but it was actually quite a pleasant exp...

I put up an example of postcode geocoding using the Google Local Search AJAX API and somebody asked if it was possible to populate an ASP.N...

Just over 5 years ago I had an interview at APT and after a mammoth interview (the longest I’ve ever experienced) the interviewer told me h...

When I started this series of blog posts I was thinking it might be interesting because we are meant to be in the middle of a big recession....

A few phone calls from agents, but nothing of note.

Form segments don’t provide a way to run a client script when the form segment is loaded. This can be somewhat limiting but it can be solved...

Flags are a great way to pass data between processes or to pass data from an external application to Metastorm BPM. There are several ways t...

I spent the morning taking a programming test, sent it off to the agent (the second in a chain of agents I’ve had to pass through to get my ...

Perhaps the job market isn’t as bad as people are saying, I’ve managed to get myself an interview. Admittedly not the best paying job in the...

It occurs to me that having Metastorm BPM plastered all over my CV isn’t really helping in my job search. If a Metastorm job does come up th...

Things I learned today There are still some jobs available for hackers like myself Some of them are potentially quite interesting. ...

I dunnow, but this may be interesting to people, so I’ve decided to blog about my attempts to find a new job. Given the current economic sit...

I talked previously about how to simplify editing authentication scripts in Metastorm BPM by using the FreeFlow Administrator. What I didn’...

I am in the market for a job. Ideally I’m after a .NET development role in London, but I’ve also got a lot of Metastorm BPM experience so an...