Attempting to use Wireshark to debug WebSockets traffic
I’ve been attempting to get some WebSockets code to work using SuperWebSockets and a simple html + javascript page in Chrome. My success has been limited to ...
Android Phone Update Nov 2011
I’ve been using Android phones for a couple of years now, with my ultra budget Orange San Francisco being my favourite so far. ROMs, and De-Bricking I’ve b...
Microsoft Flight - It will be free
Looking throught the material at , I’ve come to the conclusion that the next version of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator will be available for free. Yes, I beli...
Deserializing XML to Objects
Save the output of the Serialize post to a file called sample.xml Paste the following C# code directly in LINQPad, change language to ‘C# Program’ and run i...
Serializing Objects to XML
Paste the following C# code directly in LINQPad, change language to ‘C# Program’ and run it. void Main() { //create test object hierarchy with data ...
Android Software I Use
Having lost my old Samsung Galaxy (the original i7500 on Android 1.6), I decided to keep a log of software I install. It turns out the market only remembers ...
XML - Meh!
I’ve never been a fan of XML. The first time I came across it was around 2001 working for an ISP. We received press releases from the Press Association (or ‘...
Coding Katas
I read a very interesting article over on InfoQ about Coding Katas. http://www.infoq.com/articles/BDD-Katas-1 I then went and read the original articles by ...
The Curse of Cost-Benefit Design
Weighing up the costs of a new feature against the benefits to the customer sounds like common sense. For those with a project manager mindset it is likely t...
PHP Coders - Please Think More Carefully About Code Layout
I’ve only recently started to use PHP again, but have coded a lot of classic ASP over the last few years, and both platforms share the same potential annoyan...