Recently, I’ve come to find a lot of spare time on my hands and today I decided that I’ve been sitting on the sidelines long enough; it’s time I got my head into the various APIs and pricing models involved in “Cloud Computing”. There’s a good reason I’ve been waiting […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Recently I alluded to writing a series of posts on the Entity Framework Futures, now referred to as the “Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview 5“ which could really, really use a cool codename. Introduction If you’ve been following along on the Windows Workflow Rules Engine series of […]
Entity Framework Code First (Part 1)
A little late, but better late than never – the Entity Framework CTP 5 was released last month before Christmas, and now that I’m back, I’ll be doing a series of posts on Code First and CTP 5. This is mainly to test out the new Object Validation which currently […]
Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 5
This is something I just don’t understand. We all know about e-mail spam, it has been around for almost as long as the Internet itself, however comment spam is (by comparison) relatively new and a little mindboggling. Nearly every serious blogger I know moderates comments and uses manual and/or automatic […]
Spam Blog Comments: Why?
14 Hi there and happy new year. 2011 promises to be quite an interesting year, and I hope that I can continue to contribute here at Sanders Technology. To kick off the new year, I decided to revisit the Windows Workflow article I started late last year. A little while ago […]
A quick and dirty Rules Engine using Windows Workflow (Part ...
Well, as you read this entry, you find me at a career crossroads. I’m going to apologise in advance if I’m sounding a tad bit melancholy, but at this very moment I really can’t define what I’m looking for. One of the greatest deficiencies in the IT industry, in my […]
A Career Conundrum
Today I was having an off-topic discussion with my wife who is not amused at the number of potential employers who don’t really seem to understand the QA/Test Lead role (duties and responsibilities) and the number of job ads posted which significantly maim it into other roles. It made me […]
Not all code is created equal.
Hi There! This is an open letter advertising my services to large companies, predominantly using Microsoft technologies, who are outsourcing work to the China or Asian region. My wife and I are based currently in HangZhou, Zhejiang province, about 40 minutes from Shanghai. I’m primarily a data architect, however I […]