Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

For a long time I’ve shown the most popular pages on the home page of my website . I did this by logging every page that was viewed to the M...

If you’ve ever looked round for a profiler for XSL transformations then chances are you’ve found the Microsoft add-on for Visual Studio , wh...

Apparently I’ve been using Spotfiy for over two years . Funny, it seems longer than that. It was the perfect music service for me, unlimited...

Some time ago I imported the Ordnance Survey Code-Point postcode dataset into MySql . It looks like there’s a new version of that dataset av...

Update – I now realise this post is kind of pointless, there is a module for compression of dynamic content, called unsurprisingly Dynamic...

It took me a while to figure this out. Routing is meant to be baked into ASP.NET 4 but when i tried to set it up, all I got was 404 errors. ...

The OS Code-Point Open dataset is great, except for a few omissions. It doesn’t include data for Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the C...

Every .NET developer loves Reflector, since it gives us a chance to see inside assemblies that we don’t have the source for. And I’ve even r...

For a long while I’ve been debugging a .NET service using the recommended approach . Whilst this works, it’s kind of painful. the steps are ...

Us software developers have had to live with offshoring for years. And I can understand why companies do it. If software isn’t your raison d...

Last time, I built a simple app to get the number of visitors to a site using the Google Analytics API . So the obvious next step is to get ...

So if you want to create your own version of Embedded analytics , the first thing to do is figure out how to use the Google Analytics API. I...

I’ve been working on a website for somebody and they wanted to show some information about the number of visitors to the site on the site it...

This was new to me so I thought I’d share. If you want to generate a file name based on some text, but that text may contain characters that...

Styled Google Maps but I haven’t found a use for them up until now. But I had a desire to view urban areas in the UK and realised I could do...

The .NET API for Google Docs is a strange beast. First, it has a DocumentsRequest class and a DocumentsService class. Sometimes you’ll nee...

I had a bit of fun upgrading my Windows 7 machine to PHP 5.2 the other day. There’s an installer available that goes most of the way but di...

Somebody asked how to use my transparent label on top of a ProgressBar control, since it disappeared when the progress bar changed its sta...

We’re all looking for people to blame for the current mess we are in and apparently there are 38 causes of the current financial crisis . I’...

I downloaded the IE9 beta a week or so ago. Though it looked pretty good, the performance was less than stellar. When I looked at the option...