William Duffy

In my opinion the most annoying missing piece of date functionality in the .NET framework is an ability to get a DateTime’s ordinal suffix. If you’re as disheartened as me with this then dismay no more. Below is my DateTime extension method that returns the ordinal suffix for the current day of the month.
I’ve put [...]

Can’t find the # hash key # on the keyboard of your MacBook Pro running Windows? I spent ages scratching my head on this one but it is there, it’s just hidden away from sight.
Simply hold ctrl, alt and press 3 to get a nice little hash character onto your screen. Simples!

I ran into a problem this morning that had me stumped. One of our sites was running fine in IE but in Firefox was causing a “400 Bad Request”. To make matters more confusing the server was hosting two domains, one of them working in Firefox and one not. After assessing the server and ensuring [...]

Search Engine Optimisation is an area of the internet that is still very much in its infancy. The techniques and skills required to optimise a website to meet the needs of your customers, the requirements of your business and the technical structure of search engines (preferably in that order) is an advanced skill-set that many [...]

I’ve always wanted to be in The Simpsons. However, unless I become super influential overnight then the liklehood of this ever happening is pretty much null and void.
What a great experience it was then to find this website by Burger King which created me as a Simpsons character. I think it did a pretty good [...]