Route Mapping - Pushpins

Last time I got started with BingMaps plotting some lines on the map. It is however a little bare, and a real route has a start and end point so what I need to add is a couple of markers, or pushpins. ...

St Albans 10K

Yesterday I completed my second 10K of the year: the St Albans 10K. After an adjusted 10K time of 44:47 in Hertford, I had a pretty stiff target to beat and St Albans is more of a hilly, sorry 'undulating', ...

Route Mapping

I've been playing with the Bing Maps SDK with the aim of manually plotting a route and showing the overall distance. It turns out to be fairly simple. Task 1: Create a Bing Maps account The Bing ...

A 10K PB

Well, I completed my first 10K in 48th position out of a total of 380 runners in a time of 45:41 - which works out at 7:12 minute/mile pace (it was actually a little over 10K). Very happy with that and ...

An odd Visual Studio Crash

I had a weird problem this morning: Visual Studio 2010 crashed upon loading my solution with the error: > Faulting application devenv.exe, version 10.0.40219.1, faulting module cslangsvc.dll, version ...

ODBC, Stored Procedures and Named Parameters

Recently, I had to dig into some database code which executes a stored proc. The code was generic - it should work with any IDbConnection. It looks something like this: using (IDbConnection conn = CreateConnection()) ...

Parkrun

As part of my training for my upcoming Hertford 10K race (well 10.2km but who's counting!) I decided to do the St Albans Parkrun event. It was a lot of fun, as well as some pain, and was very pleased ...

HTML form layout using CSS

I'm trying to get all "Web2.0" and get better at using CSS for layout instead of good ol' tables. This time, it's about laying out a simply form: Desired form layout After some ...

WCF: Message Security with a Java Client

The aim is to secure communication between two systems using mutual certificates. The server side is a .NET Windows Service (i.e. a self-hosted WCF service) and the client side a Java application. This ...

Getting friendly with jQuery and Knockout.js

It's new project time! More on that in a future post no doubt, but in brief it's an ASP.NET MVC web application making use of jQuery and Knockout.js. I've dabbled with Javascript in the past, ...

Razor outside of MVC

I had a project which involved generating fairly large XML documents and passing those documents onto a message bus. One option is to do it all in code: that is use the System.Xml.Linq set of classes to ...

First 10K

An early Christmas present to myself? Why not! Yesterday I signed up to my first "race", the Hertford Charity Run. About 6 months ago, I started running to lose a bit of weight and to help ...

Threads no more

There's a phrase that's really stuck in my mind and whenever I either violate it myself or someone else has violated it, I consider the alternative or talk to my colleague about the options: ...

Silverlight Poster Child

There are rumours that Silverlight 5 will be the last version, but if you're looking for an example that shows off what a good Silverlight app looks like, I think the Sky Sports Event Centre has to ...

Oredev 2011 - review

Wow! It was a packed three days in Malmo, Sweden for Oredev 2011. A great event which I thoroughly enjoyed. The information is still running around my head, and there's so much I want to dig into I've ...

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