Craig Rowe

Techlead / Developer

28th April 2009

You really should know and use these... seriously...

Simple things apparently annoy me a great deal...

.NET Developers should be aware of, and use, .NET constructs that have been around for ages:

Obviously it's up to you in the context of each situation you encounter, but to never use these at all is surely madness.


Other Recent Posts

It's alive! (again) (16th April 2025)

I once wrote an article entitled "Why you should make your own site". How clever I was to talk about content ownership and using side projects to learn...Fast forward a decade or more and I'd given myself a long term code and design maintenance project to progressively narrate over the years via various blogs and social media posts... [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] (to name but a few).…

re:develop 2016 (14th October 2016)

Having not made the trip down to Bournemouth for re:develop 1 or 2 it was great to be in attendance for it's third incarnation.…

DevSouthCoast GameJam 2013 (15th September 2013)

Making games over a weekend... competitively... and we chose a dead technology... why the hell not!…

NodeCopter Southampton 2013 (11th August 2013)

Hack Days are awesome. How could they not be? you get to make stuff with like minded people with no bosses, no client deadlines, no point but the love of it. …

Joining Dootrix (24th November 2012)

It's been a while since I posted. I'd like to say that's because a lot's been going on. In reality I got lazy and now I just happen to have something to write about that can make it sound like a lot has been going on.