NET contractor living in Bristol, UK. This blog is an attempt to sort out my coding gremlins or to post solutions on ridding the world of them. Friday, 20 February 2015. I was getting this exception when selecting what looked like a perfectly valid ASP. In my case, it was due to white space in some of the drop down entries being bound. Monday, 9 June 2014.

Performance optimization, or Why does my SQL query take an hour to execute? October 4th, 2015. I love small performance optimizations that make a huge difference, such as these two. From Bruce Dawson of the Chrome team and formerly of Valve Software.

A place to tirade about programming. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Something finally clicked for me, when I was using these languages, and that was Duck Typing. In Ruby there is even a respond to? Method to assert this.

Now, what if we reverse this process? So basically, time is money, time is expensive perhaps people care a lot more about saving themse.