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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. ...
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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', ...
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Posted 7 days ago by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 05 May 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 16 Apr 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 04 Apr 2012 by
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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()) ...
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Posted on the 22 Mar 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 10 Mar 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 07 Mar 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 18 Feb 2012 by
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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, ...
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Posted on the 11 Feb 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 15 Jan 2012 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 23 Dec 2011 by
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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: ...
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Posted on the 13 Dec 2011 by
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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 ...
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Posted on the 07 Dec 2011 by
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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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Posted on the 17 Nov 2011 by
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