Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

The main argument for bankers earning vast amounts of money seems to be that in a global market, they’ll just bugger off somewhere else if w...

A while back I had to interview some people for a developer role at work so came up with a few questions, combining a few from the web with ...

Embedded Analytics provide a nice service that will email you whenever somebody clicks on a new link to your site. I’ve been signed up for ...

It seems a little strange to me that at a time when banks are meant to be desperately trying to increase their balance sheets, they are offe...

A while back I picked up a copy of the Evening Standard and was surprised to see Facebook and Twitter logos at the top of every page, sugges...

…with a somewhat larger waste line, somewhat smaller IQ and hopefully with less OCD tendencies.

I’ve been disenchanted with Google Friend Connect for a while. I only used it for commenting on my website but it has a number of weaknesse...

I’ve seen one or two examples of using Google Maps in a WinForms desktop app, but the ones I’ve seen seem to involve loading image tiles fro...

I received a bug report about my website. The maps that appear on my UK postcodes pages weren’t working in IE8. I hadn’t noticed since they...

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 ...