Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

You’ve probably seen the adverts where Phil Spencer, the man whose remarkable negotiating skills can sometimes get £5,000 knocked off a £500...

I recently took possession of a new Nokia Lumia 800, thanks to work, and immediately thought it would make a great replacement for my Velose...

Two years ago I noted that the KmLayer in Google Maps didn’t provide an event to inform me if there was a problem when loading the KML . Thi...

My proper website has been around for about 12 years. For most of that time it had very few visitors and the money I made from advertising ...

The Big Bang Theory hasn’t been quite the same since the geeks started to pair off with girlfriends (since half the humour was about them fa...

I’m used to visiting a website and their adverts then following me round the web afterwards. It’s happened with Dell and some property websi...

Internet Explorer has a non-standard method available in XML documents returned from AJAX calls called selectSingleNode . Pass in some XPath...

The blog of my employer Business Optix has gone live. We’ll be posting there as we roll out new features to our web and desktop products, a...

My first foray into the world of bike computers was a Sigma 1609 device. I quite liked it, since it was simple to use with a clear display,...

I wanted to let users log in to our application using their Windows user name or their email address. In order to achieve this aim, I needed...

If like me you find it hard to grasp how the tiny the tiniest things are and how massively huge the biggest things are, then have a look at ...

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...