I'm currently working on a project that involves moving a large classic ASP.NET WebForms application to ASP.NET MVC3; rather than completing re-implementing the system as MVC3 in one large hit, we're … more

I’m chuffed to say that Cryin’ Out Loud will be playing at the 6th Home Farm Festival in Chilthorne Domer on Saturday 11th June 2011; the full line up for the day is: The Helm No Closure Hundred … more

A live version of Kate Bush’s classic Wuthering Heights by the idiot bunch of loons that I sing with on a regular basis; this was recorded at The Royal Oak, Ilminster on June 4th 2010 after much beer … more

In a previous post I showed a simple module to check the validity of XML documents from a Powershell command line. Over the past few months I’ve found this little function to be incredibly useful, … more

Apologies for any duplications or reposting appearing in any RSS readers; I've made the last structural change to the site for a while, so hopefully the permalinks for any posts won't change (again) more

I've been getting to grips with the excellent ASP.Net Orchard, and have fully migrated my old blog over to this platform over the last couple of weeks - the issue that I had with the application … more

I came across a problem the other day where a process that relied on several external XML documents was failing due to a combination of factors:

The document had been hand-edited

The document … more

It’s time to jump ship again and move to a new Blog system – this time I’ve settled on Orchard, a .NET CMS system with (amongst other things) a full-featured blogging engine. … more