Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

When I logged into Endomondo the other day I discovered that in the process of redesigning their website, they had also decided to hide som...

For most of my time I’ve been using Windows 8 much as I used previous versions of Windows and stayed well away from the new interface and ap...

Today someone posted a comment to my site saying this at [redacted] you can find a full uk postcode database with all postcodes and long /...

Before I start, I have to point out this is not a me too complaint about not liking the new Windows 8 user interface. I have no problems wit...

After installing Windows 8, one of my AppPools in IIS kept stopping with the error ‘The Module DLL C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\rewrite.dll f...

I’d read a lot about what a bad OS Windows 8 is for desktop systems, since it’s all about adding features for use on tablets. So being the m...

In my day job, each of the customers running in our hosted environment have their own SQL Server database. As we develop the software that r...

It was five years ago. We’d driven down to Spain to see my dad and as we sat in his living room I was amazed to see my teenage nephew and hi...

Just testing out embedding a route from Endomondo

I started to write my own biking app for Windows Phone then found an app that was much better than I could hope to achieve. So here is the s...

I’ve written before about the two bike apps I’ve found for my Windows Phone, MyBikeMap and MapMyRide . I was so convinced that they were the...

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,...