I’ve got a pile of old MPEGs on my PC from an old Sony camcorder of mine, that I wanted to play on my XBox 360. My XBox isn’t connected to my home network, and I wanted to be able to convert the mpegs into something the XBox could read... [Read More]

It’s been a while since I used NServiceBus and I got this annoyingly cryptic error message this morning: [Read More]

Rick Strahl posted this excellent article on pre-authenticating HTTP requests - this is something that’s caught me in the past but he explains the whole concept so well here I thought this was worth noting for my own future reference.

I’m working on a development database with a lot of varbinary fields - these are great once you have your admin screens but they’re a pain in the initial development phase when there is no GUI for loading data. This little T-SQL snippet can be used to update varbinary fields... [Read More]

A colleague found this blog post by Brian Schmitt, which is one of the most useful little tips I’ve seen in ages. [Read More]