SmallRss in depth, part 1

This is the first part of a, probably, short series running through the main parts of SmallRss. I'll start on the client; for one reason I found that the most interesting. I plan to cover the main ...

PB season

After working my way back from injury at the turn of the year, I'm now running well again and have just hit a couple of new PBs! First off, super happy to break through the 19 minute barrier at St ...

SmallRss

It's taken longer than hoped, but it's finally up on GitHub: a self-hostable online RSS reader in C# - SmallRss. Although it is still very much early days, as I have a number of bugs and missing ...

Jantastic!

Since the Watford Half Marathon, I've been slowly building back up from the injury I picked up in January and now starting to feel stronger and stronger again, which is great. One thing I've enjoyed ...

Frameworks, frameworks everywhere

Since the news hit, I've been trying out a few Google Reader alternatives such as NewsBlur and Feedly but they don't really work for me. I think I'd now prefer to "own" this myself. ...

Bye Google Reader

So Google is killing off Reader. How annoying. I started off with RSS using a locally installed application which worked well until we enter into the multi-device world - work, home, phone, and more. ...

My RavenDB sample

As mentioned in my last RavenDB post, I planned to put together a simple RavenDB sample project and put it up on GitHub. I've finally got around to doing it, and it's now up on my GitHub page. ...

First Dip into RavenDb

There's been a little theme in my last few posts: RavenDB. I've enjoyed getting into it and love the simplicity, so thought I'd quickly sketch out how I've integrated it into my ASP.NET ...

Watford Half Marathon

Last weekend I completed my second half marathon: the Watford Half. I'd like to say I smashed my PB from last year of 1:28:57, but alas no. My finishing chip time was 1:33:18. Injuries Unfortunately ...

Saving a simple object in RavenDB

As you might have guessed from my previous post, I'm trying out RavenDB. I'll probably do a larger post shortly, but this time I just wanted to cover a simple problem I had, which has an equally ...

RavenDB management gui

I've been trying out RavenDB and have been loving it! However, I've had one problem: the management interface. I'm using Raven in an MVC app, using the EmbeddableDocumentStore: docStore ...

VirtualBox and SkyDrive

Networking is tricky beast, especially for an ignorant developer like myself - I just want it to work. Having given up with the VirtualBox shared folders set up, I installed SkyDrive on the Windows 8 instance ...

Web project in VirtualBox

I've set up my new Mac and installed Windows 8 within VirtualBox. I use SkyDrive to sync all my documents between machines so installed the Mac SkyDrive client and pulled down all my content - over ...

MacBook Pro

It's arrived! I'm now know what I'm going to be busy doing this weekend... My boxed MacBook Pro Written on my new MacBook Pro 13" with Retina display

Moq - Capturing property set

Moq is an excellent mocking framework, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to capture the value of a mocked property. For example, I wanted to exercise some method then check that a property ...

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