Doogal Bell's bloggy thing

I often have ideas for websites, but due to a lack of time I never actually get round to doing anything about them. They may well be terribl...

A couple of years ago I wrote a post giving a vague idea of how to profile XSL transforms without shelling out for Visual Studio Team System...

I’ve been playing around with hosting a Google Map in a .NET WinForms control, for no good reason other than to see if it can be done. The k...

It’s a hard life for a dog. It all starts when the sun comes up. “I must inform my master that the sun has come up. Woof woof…” . Some ...

According to Endomondo , I’ve cycled 2668 miles since I signed up with them, which is just over a tenth of the distance around the world. Ac...

Trying to fix all the things Google Webmaster Tools complains about would drive you insane. Case in point, it will warn you about soft 404s...

I can’t say I’ve ever considered the differences between charging my Nokia Lumia 800 via USB and via the AC adaptor. If I had thought about,...

I needed to send my driving licence off to a company to prove I am who I say I am. Something to do with money laundering, although I’m not e...

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...