I have recently started using psake to do some build automation at work, and I’ve found that there is not a great deal of information about how to write a build script using psake available on the internet. It isn’t all that amazingly difficult if truth be told, however there are a couple of ‘gotchas’, [...]

Love him or hate him, several years ago, Jeff Atwood (of Codinghorror.com infamy and the really rather awesome StackOverflow.com) posted on his blog a recommended reading list for developers. He has since become a sort of mini internet programming celebrity. Since imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I present to you my own list [...]

Like many people, I have a vanity domain name, www.stuart-grassie.co.uk. Many moons ago I used to host my blog on there, but for a variety of reasons I bought this domain and switched my blog here. So I put up a basic index page, listing a few interesting factoids about me, and what I do. [...]

Nearly every application I have ever used has produced some sort of log output, usually to record details of exactly what the application was doing when an error was encountered. To be perfectly truthful, it is not something that I have ever really given very much consideration to in either my own or work applications, [...]

Update: I have written another post on this subject with some code examples here: http://temporalcohesion.co.uk/2009/11/02/more-on-the-generic-plugin-manager/ Update 2: There is another follow on post here: http://temporalcohesion.co.uk/2010/03/17/even-more-on-the-generic-plugin-manager/ where I talk about what I’ve learned. One of my current long term hobby project is a map/world editor that I’m writing for Andy’s (work in progress) game engine. It [...]