Batch geocode your address data

I recently faced the challenge of geocoding existing locations. The location table contains about 10k entries. Around 75% of which had useful address data attached to it. The table contains mainly addresses from the UK but also from the US, Canada and Germany.
I was looking for a tool which would take my 10k entries and [...]

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Where is Flo?

A while back, I posted about a fresh start project wise and that I am looking forward to blogging about my new project and all the development stuff that comes along with it. As you can see (or not) I didn’t post an awful lot recently. Apart from being quite busy recently, one reason for [...]

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More Padness: jQueryPad

Just a quick one:
Similar if not even more useful to the in my previous post mentioned LINQPad is Paul Stovell’s jQueryPad. Guess what it does
jQueryPad is a fast JavaScript and HTML editor. Just start it, enter the HTML you want to work with, bash in your jQuery code, and hit F5 to see [...]

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LINQPad and the magic samples

One of the tools I find myself using quite a lot recently is LINQPad. In my new project we are using NHibernate, which together with the Linq provider is a real joy. I can still remember when I was using NHibernate for the first time in a project and to be honest, the Criteria API [...]

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A Fresh Start

Well, one would hope so!
I haven’t really blogged an awful lot in the past. Well at least not in English. I’ve been blogging a bit over on my German Blog, but that’s mostly non techie stuff. In fact most of the stuff is about my experience as a German guy, living and working in Glasgow, [...]

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Loading projects in Visual Studio using the Shared Profile feature in Parallels

I recently came across a strange problem when setting up my Windows machine using Parallels on my Macbook. I recently bought a Macbook and do all my development stuff using Parallels to host a virtual windows machine. I have 2 virtual machines running, one Windows XP box and one Windows 2008 Server box which is my [...]

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