David Grey's Blog

I'm Still Here!

David — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:45:00 GMT

Hello blog, it's been a while! You've probably been wondering where I've been. Well I'm still here, I haven't gone anywhere, I've just been fat too busy doing other things. I've spent most of the last 6 months working on renovating...(read more)

Finding My Way

David — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:29:56 GMT

I’ve always liked the song Finding My Way from Rush’s first album. It may not have won much critical acclaim but I like the song and the title seems to fit my life quite well at the moment. You may recall from a previous post that my wife has filed for...(read more)

Windows 7 ate my screen (or how I thought the upgrade had failed)

David — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:48:49 GMT

I like Windows 7, it’s a massive improvement over Vista and my PC’s now work more responsively than a geriatric tortoise. I’ve installed Windows 7 on about 15 different machines now and my installation and upgrade experience has been painless. Until the...(read more)

Arnie was right – I’ll Be Back!!

David — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:11:46 GMT

And I am. Back that is. It’s been well over a year since I last posted a blog entry. So why the long absence? The short answer is because my life turned upside down 12 months ago and I found myself separated from my wife, and now I’m in the midst of an...(read more)

Laying on the Style!

David — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:54:50 GMT

The .NET development landscape is awash with some fantastic tools. Visual Studio itself includes a wide range of powerful tools but there are some great free and commercial third-party tools available, including some from Microsoft themselves. One I added...(read more)

Give voice to your suggestions and tell us what you think

David — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:50:30 GMT

When I get the chance I listen to a broad range of IT-related podcasts. Just recently I've been catching up on some of Scott Hanselman's Hanselminutes podcasts. In one of the recent episodes I was intrigued to hear about User Voice , an online...(read more)

The future is Red...

David — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:38:01 GMT

I learnt yesterday that Lutz Roeder, who produces the Reflector tool for .NET, has decided that it is time to move on to other things and is ceasing further development on Reflector. If you're a serious .NET developer then you'll already know...(read more)

Take care of yourself, take care of the environment

David — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:04:08 GMT

I came across an interesting post on Green Blog yesterday which postulated that the reason why most people don't care about the environment is because they don't care about themselves. It went on to suggest that they also don't take responsibility...(read more)

Towards Carbon Neutral Computing

David — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:34:19 GMT

For many years now software companies have been engaged in the practice of dogfooding , actively using their own products to convey their confidence in them. I was interested to read yesterday that the UK Government is dogfooding its own IT carbon reduction...(read more)

Where did my day go? Oh, wait... I've been trying to copy files with MSBuild

David — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:54 GMT

I've spent most of my day today trying to copy some files from one location to another using MSBuild. This is something I've done plenty of times before, but in this case I was trying to do something other than just copy an entire directory of...(read more)

The ethics of economic success?

David — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:46:10 GMT

Modern business, at least in the Western economies, is predicated on continued economic growth and returns for shareholders which often results in the the ability to generate profits being viewed as the only indicator of success. I may be odd, but I've...(read more)

Firefox, please let me make my own decisions

David — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:49:54 GMT

I finally got around to downloading and installing Firefox 3 today and on first inspection it does some to have a better look and feel and some nice improvement over version 2. One thing I wasn't impressed with though was the installation process...(read more)

McConnell on Software Professionalism

David — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:21:00 GMT

It's half term holidays which is giving me a break from my normally hectic schedule for some much needed family time. It's also a good opportunity to catch up on some reading and I've just finished reading Steve McConnell's Professional...(read more)

The World is Going Green

David — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:29:01 GMT

Not in the environmental sense unfortunately but in the literal sense. Why so? I had reason to be doing a lot of web surfing yesterday and couldn't help noticing how many of the sites had logos, buttons, graphics and images in various shades of green...(read more)

A Noteworthy Day

David — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:38:03 GMT

Around 7:50am today something unusual and noteworthy occurred. The issue of Peak Oil got an airing on Radio 4's Today programme. Many people are unaware of or unwilling to talk about Peak Oil, the point at which the world's oil supplies start...(read more)