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A Microsoft.NET WCF, Windows Workflow, Silverlight, WPF and Sitecore CMS developer, I specialise in ethical web development. Increasingly active in the Social Media space, both as a user and proponent, I may be contacted through a number of channels, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Check my card on the right.

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06-25-2009
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Discovering BlackBerry

It's that time of year again, when my phone feels a little long in the tooth and I start having primal urges to refresh my tech. Actually, my old phone ( Nokia N95-8Gb ) is perfectly useful and ideal for continued use. I have a problem and I shall...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 06-22-2009

Filed under: BlackBerry Gadget
UK: Have Microsoft fallen out with us?

The UK is widely regarded as being one of the key countries the drive innovation in technology. Indeed, the computer was invented in the UK, in Manchester. Obviously, much of the innovation now occurs in America. With the signifcantly larger population...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 06-19-2009

Filed under: XBox 360, Zune, Microsoft, Windows Media Centre
Isle of Man TT: Rumour control

This year's TT has been particularly enjoyable, mostly because I have been able to take some time off and watch the racing. Until changing my employment, I would have been involved in the publishing of the live timings over the internet on the iomtt...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 06-11-2009

Filed under: Isle of Man TT Twitter
Isle of Man Transport: Badly planned, no wonder they make no money

This post has been a while coming. I have been on the island for 4 years now, and have come to realise the predicament that the non-car driver/owner faces when trying to get around the Isle of Man. The island has 8 or so towns/conurbations that are spread...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 04-08-2009

Filed under: Isle of Man, public transport
How are you?

I've always thought that I was anti-social, miserable and less than friendly in a morning, but I couldn't believe that this was the case. My problem, I explained, is that I dislike the empty "How are you?" and "Good mornings"...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 04-07-2009

Filed under: Work-Life
WCF: JSON Serialization woes

I'm working on improving the performance of my current web application project at various points. As I had already planned for a WCF interface for third-party use, I thought I'd utilise that, exposing objects as JSON-serialized strings usable...

Posted to Blogging About .NET by Nathan J Pledger on 03-18-2009

Filed under: WCF, JSON, ASP.NET AJAX
WCF Exception: "There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection"

I'm beginning to see why people dislike WCF. I'm working on using WCF to feed an AJAX TreeView, and demos of it are FAST. However, in my debugging on my dev server I bumped into the exception: "There can be at most one address per scheme...

Posted to Blogging About .NET by Nathan J Pledger on 03-16-2009

Filed under: WCF
Facebook Home Page

I'm not going to be the first and I won't be the last to write about this, so I won't labour the point. Hopefully the graphic says it all. The new Facebook home page seems to be trying to be more like Twitter than actually bringing prople...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 03-14-2009

Filed under: Twitter, Facebook
Jacqui Smith: "I know, we'll create a huge database"

The UK is facing a number of challenges that span professional bodies and disciplines, which with good intentions, the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is sure she can solve. Helping prevent child abuse Child abuse is a horrendous tragedy that has recently...

Posted to Live to Work by Nathan J Pledger on 03-09-2009

Filed under: Politics, Jacqui Smith
Telerik: radControls: Resizable Splitter

For my current project, I am working on what is quite a complex user interface. I need to develop an interface that has splitter controls and can load one or more modules within each panel. Sort of like Microsoft Outlook three-panel interface. Sort of...

Posted to Blogging About .NET by Nathan J Pledger on 02-24-2009

Filed under: Telerik, jQuery

Name:: Nathan J Pledger
Occupation:: Senior .NET Developer
Location:: Isle of Man

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