I went to ScaleConf a couple of weeks ago, and have been meaning to write about some thoughts I had, so here it is!

Each .net project has a version number (4 dotted numbers, e.g. 1.0.0.0). While you could leave it like that, it would ideally point back a unique revision in your source control system.

I recently asked a question on Ask Ubuntu, regarding setting up my Ubuntu (12.04) virtual machine with a mail server, but to not actually send any mail.

Google Web Fonts is a great resource for custom web fonts. It is free and has a huge library of fonts (508 different fonts at time of writing).

I have a separate blog where I post photos I take, and I recently noticed a problem with how the actual JPEGs display in Firefox. It was almost like they were showing the image in a lower colour mode. All other browsers displayed the images fine.

As a by-product of the XtsSharp project, I implemented a SectorStream, which is a stream that reads and writes whole sectors

I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time, but laziness, procrastination and work have managed to get in the way.

This site has now moved to it’s own domain (garethlennox.com), rather than sitting in a subdirectory under another domain.

Finally, I’ve updated the design of this site, to brand-new spanking HTML5, including a fluent layout, that adjusts for larger and smaller screens

Just spend hours working out how to do this. If you’re moving pictures to another PC or your Picasa db gets broken, you may lose all your albums.

I’ve been thinking about backup solutions, and have been trying to find one that fits what I need.

I’ve uploaded some hi-res wallpapers on my photoblog site, from photos I’ve taken. Have a look, I think they’re quite good!

So, I’ve been playing around with Mono on a virtual machine for a while now, and want to just put down some thoughts.

We’re distributing our .net application using Microsoft’s MSI installer technology (using the very powerful WiX to do it).

The WP Super Cache plugin for Wordpress is a pretty awesome plugin. The other day I was having problems with it not doing any caching

If you’re using SQL Server, and you’re inserting records into a table with an auto increment primary key, I suggest you don’t use @@IDENTITY to retrieve the previously inserted Id.

I’ve recently finished a new site for a client, and in the process of developing, I uploaded a test site to a web server for the client to review.

We’re using SQL Compact 3.5 in a smart client desktop application, talking to it with NHibernate and are experiencing performance problems in a couple of places.

I was reviewing some code, and noticed a couple of unit tests that had TODO comments in them (and no code).

I’ve got a list of links in the sidebar of this blog. What is not obvious is that this list is an aggregated list of links that come from multiple sources.

So I’ve decided to start posting my own photo’s onto a dedicated photo blog, you may have noticed the photos appearing in the sidebar (the wonders of rss!).

This is a fascinating article:

One of my pet peeves is opening a source code file, and seeing half of it commented out, or blocks within it commented out. What’s wrong with this?

Took this the other day, just a ribbon hanging off the ceiling.

Took this the other day from my flat’s balcony.

So, after much thought, I’ve decided to start posting more photos here. Hopefully it will force me to post more often!

So, I’m playing with Zend Framework. My initial impressions are that it seems very cool.

You want to know what all the big guys are doing out there in the “web 2.0” world? Have a listen to the mp3s of the “Future of Web Apps” summit.

TinyMCE rocks! I have been integrating it into our content management system, and I must say its impressive.

Ahhh…. perfect for skiing! :)

This blog is now running under wordpress 2. Its looks very spiffy, but I still need to explore all the changes.

Since I discovered rss feeds, I have tried many feed readers, but all the applications didn’t work for me, I needed a web-based reader.

Yes, I am still around :)

I was just reading a post over on whitespace, and it got me thinking about learning any computer language.

There have been lots of people writing about ajax recently, and more importantly about ajax accessibility.

Woohoo! No default wordpress template to find here any more.

Having been using wordpress for a little while now, a couple of things bug me.

I recently found some useful software that automatically stitches together multiple images to create panoramics.

One of the problems we found with people using our content management system was that, frequently, they would take very long editing a page, causing the session to time out, thereby losing their changes.

Welcome to my new blog, we shall see if this lasts…