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Mashing Darling

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Mashing up….that’s so 2006 darling….this year you have to be doing it ‘in the cloud’ . The Government 2.0 Taskforce (think pulled up socks, a sprinkling of  ’2.0′ magic and a whole bunch of semi automatics) are going all mashup on us – watch out!! The thinking behind this borrows a great deal from a [...]

The geography of Football (real football)

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Yesterday my team got off to a flying start to the new season with a great result away at Bolton. Whilst reading the reports on the game I came across this interesting map which shows the geographical origin of Premier League players. In the past 20 years the face of the premier league has changed [...]

The Sensor Web

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The deadline for the CCIP is approaching and I’ve been lurking on the announcement list and was really interested in this great little application which provides sensor data via Sensor Observation Services. I think the reason that I like this site so much is that it paints a really clear picture of sensor web enablement, [...]

Failure

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I’m working on a project at the moment which is using SCRUM.  So far I (and hopefully the team too) think it’s going well despite the occasional FUD that you hear about the place, sometimes this can be distracting but I keep telling myself that we’re getting a return from the process and those responsible for [...]

Where’s my Trace

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A few days ago I decided to change the way I was developing my current solution. I am creating a WCF service and had started out with a standard class library, but hit some issues in terms of regularly building an installer and deploying the libraries onto a test web server. To address these issues [...]