https://cargowire.net/ 2025-03-30 weekly 1 / Home The Homepage https://cargowire.net/blog 2016-10-15 weekly 1 /blog Blogs Things I think about https://cargowire.net/blog/itsalive 2025-04-16 never 0.5 /blog/itsalive It's Alive! (again) Back once again it's the renegade master... https://cargowire.net/blog/redevelop2016 2016-10-14 never 0.5 /blog/redevelop2016 re:develop 2016 Conference at the beach! https://cargowire.net/blog/devsouthcoastgamejam13 2013-09-15 never 0.5 /blog/devsouthcoastgamejam13 DevSouthCoast GameJam 2013 Making a game in a weekend https://cargowire.net/blog/nodecoptersoton13 2013-08-11 never 0.5 /blog/nodecoptersoton13 NodeCopter Southampton Flying javascript! https://cargowire.net/blog/joiningdootrix 2012-11-24 never 0.5 /blog/joiningdootrix Joining Dootrix Very gradual change you can believe in. https://cargowire.net/blog/polygotdotnetdev 2012-07-04 never 0.5 /blog/polygotdotnetdev .NET Web Development, you know you want to... Secretly... no really, it could be your new guilty pleasure... ...maybe I can convince you. https://cargowire.net/blog/shouldwealllearntocode 2012-06-04 never 0.5 /blog/shouldwealllearntocode Should everyone learn to code? Learn to code? not learn to code? argue about who should learn, when and why?.. definitely. https://cargowire.net/blog/barnsite 2012-04-03 never 0.5 /blog/barnsite The Barn site is live! For the last few weeks I've been pulling together the concept of 'The Barn'. Ostensibly it's a company blog, but to me it's a bit nicer than that. https://cargowire.net/blog/bcbomo4 2012-03-07 never 0.5 /blog/bcbomo4 Barcamp Bournemouth 4 This time with added hackspace. https://cargowire.net/blog/wp7vsiphone 2012-02-16 never 0.5 /blog/wp7vsiphone WP7 vs iPhone And why I'm back to my iPhone 4. https://cargowire.net/blog/newdesign 2012-02-05 never 0.5 /blog/newdesign Cargowire has a new design And why getting a pro designer on board is awesome https://cargowire.net/blog/bemiddleclass 2011-01-15 never 0.5 /blog/bemiddleclass Why you should try to be a middle class developer And how I can get an iconic comedy sketch into a blog about devs https://cargowire.net/articles 2013-11-04 weekly 1 /articles Articles Things I think about https://cargowire.net/articles/trigonometry 2014-03-22 never 0.5 /articles/trigonometry Programming with circles Fun with html canvas https://cargowire.net/articles/codereview 2013-11-04 never 0.5 /articles/codereview Code review Welcome to argue the toss, my tosser this week is... https://cargowire.net/articles/knowledgesharing 2013-09-24 never 0.5 /articles/knowledgesharing Knowledge Sharing All I know is I don't know nothing. https://cargowire.net/articles/admityousuck 2011-01-15 never 0.5 /articles/admityousuck Admit you suck What should be your new years resolution? https://cargowire.net/articles/commoncode 2010-08-29 never 0.5 /articles/commoncode Thoughts on Common Code... Some ramblings on maintaining a common codebase for web projects including thoughts on the less hyped benefits. https://cargowire.net/articles/extendingxml 2010-04-05 never 0.5 /articles/extendingxml Extending Xml: Two birds with one stone? Mini post introducing extending Xml with a few examples from cargowire.net https://cargowire.net/articles/joeltest11 2010-02-21 never 0.5 /articles/joeltest11 The Joel Test #11 During the Boagworld 200 show Drew Mclellan, Rachel Andrew, Paul Stanton and I discussed the Joel Test. One of the tests we didn't get on to was test number 11... https://cargowire.net/articles/dotnetdev102 2010-01-28 never 0.5 /articles/dotnetdev102 .NET Dev 101 (part 2) A follow-up to my .NET Dev 101 rant from early 2009. Aimed at beginner to intermediate .NET devs. https://cargowire.net/articles/xslfordesigners 2010-01-20 never 0.5 /articles/xslfordesigners XSL for Designers? An intro to XSL using CSS as a basis for comparison. Applicable to designers and developers alike. https://cargowire.net/articles/playwithpipes 2010-01-11 never 0.5 /articles/playwithpipes Paginate and filter with Yahoo Pipes An intro to how Yahoo pipes can be utilised to paginate, and filter multiple datasources into one feed. Useful to delegate the hard work, leaving your code to handle just the desired content. https://cargowire.net/articles/usefulfordotnetdev 2010-01-04 never 0.5 /articles/usefulfordotnetdev What's useful for a .NET Dev? Towards the end of last year I had some correspondance with a Boagworld listener who was interested to know what kind of resources I used for both dev and just plain keeping up to date... here it is in lovely blog post stylé. https://cargowire.net/articles/cargowiremvcrouting 2009-12-06 never 0.5 /articles/cargowiremvcrouting Cargowire MVC: Routing Cargowire is now running .NET MVC. This is the first in an intended series of articles discussing the implementation and changeover from .NET WebForms... starting with Routing and URL design. https://cargowire.net/articles/xmlexplicitiseasy 2009-11-05 never 0.5 /articles/xmlexplicitiseasy Xml Explicit Always Sucks You and I both know that if you ever venture into the world of SQL Server's XML explicit, you usually end up regretting it. So here's a brief example of how it works.. just to refresh your memory. https://cargowire.net/articles/whydotnetmvc 2009-08-18 never 0.5 https://boagworld.com/development/why-dotnet-mvc-and-why-should-we-care Why .NET MVC? (and why should we care?) An intro and brief take on .NET MVC and what it means particularly in reference to WebForms. https://cargowire.net/articles/seamlessubuntuwindows 2009-08-09 never 0.5 /articles/seamlessubuntuwindows Ubuntu gets inside Windows A run down on my experiences of getting my pre-existing Ubuntu install to run inside VirtualBox on vista. https://cargowire.net/articles/donthatemeformydotnet 2009-05-02 never 0.5 /articles/donthatemeformydotnet Don't hate me for my .NET A quick airing of my thoughts on .NET after plenty of discussions with haters and lovers alike. https://cargowire.net/articles/ourfirstairapp 2009-02-13 never 0.5 /articles/ourfirstairapp Our First AIR App A Boagworld post on the experiences of Dave McDermid and I in creating a simple AIR application. https://cargowire.net/articles/whyyoushouldmakeyourownsite 2008-11-30 never 0.5 /articles/whyyoushouldmakeyourownsite Why you should make your own site A developers view: Thoughts on the benefits of starting from scratch https://cargowire.net/articles/cacheexpirationscheduling 2008-10-25 never 0.5 /articles/cacheexpirationscheduling Cheap Scheduling with Cache Expiration Need scheduled activities but don't or can't create a service? https://cargowire.net/articles/dateformattinginxml 2008-10-18 never 0.5 /articles/dateformattinginxml Dateformatting in XML Simple way to format dates using .net objects and xml/xslt. https://cargowire.net/articles/dotnetobjectsinxml 2008-10-12 never 0.5 /articles/dotnetobjectsinxml .NET objects in XML Need to get extra functionality into your xsl transforms? https://cargowire.net/articles/threedimensionalknowledgerepresentation 2005-09-29 never 0.5 /articles/threedimensionalknowledgerepresentation 3D Knowledge Representation [Dissertation] An investigation into, and prototyping of, a multimedia solution to the representation of a field of study. https://cargowire.net/projects 2011-09-26 monthly 0.5 /projects Projects Things I'm making https://cargowire.net/projects/dungeon-crawl 2018-10-08 never 0.5 /projects/dungeon-crawl Dungeon Crawl - Unity/ReactJS Game Cooperative dungeon adventure. Defeat the Demon King and his minions! Your smartphones are the gamepad, your browser is the video game console. https://cargowire.net/projects/boagworld-ios 2012-09-09 never 0.5 /projects/boagworld-ios Boagworld - iPhone App A Boagworld app that lets you access, search and read Boagworld (including podcasts and quick tips) and Headscape Barn content. https://cargowire.net/projects/repo-me 2012-08-19 never 0.5 /projects/repo-me Repo Me - wordpress plugin A wordpress plugin that can be used to request posts based on modified dates returning titles/excerpts/bodies categories and any requested custom fields. https://cargowire.net/projects/rulebasedthemes 2012-03-25 never 0.5 /projects/rulebasedthemes Rule Based Themes - wordpress plugin A wordpress plugin that, based on user created rules provides a class string to be used [probably on the body element] in your css. https://cargowire.net/projects/redshift 2011-11-26 never 0.5 /projects/redshift Alpha Labs In association with Microsoft, Nokia and One Dot Zero https://cargowire.net/portfolio 2025-04-08 monthly 0.5 /portfolio Portfolio Things I've made https://cargowire.net/portfolio/confused-mobile-react 2025-05-01 monthly 0.5 /portfolio/confused-mobile-react Confused.com Mobile App Built from the ground up with React Native Cross Platform technologies, replacing a pre-existing .NET MAUI project. https://cargowire.net/portfolio/gridserve-mobile 2025-01-01 monthly 0.5 /portfolio/gridserve-mobile GRIDSERVE Mobile App Led a dev team of 6 on the Swift / SwiftUI & Kotlin / Compose GRIDSERVE EV mobile charging app. https://cargowire.net/portfolio/confused-mobile 2018-10-03 monthly 0.5 /portfolio/confused-mobile Confused.com Mobile App Led a dev team of 2-4 on the Xamarin Forms / MAUI Confused.com mobile insurance app. https://cargowire.net/events 2025-03-30 monthly 0.5 /events Events Things I've seen https://cargowire.net/events/builddeveloperday2024 2024-06-04 never 0.5 /events/builddeveloperday2024 Microsoft Build: Developer Learning Day Copilot, Azure Fabric, API Center and AZD https://cargowire.net/events/fullfrontal2011 2011-11-11 never 0.5 /events/fullfrontal2011 Full Frontal 2011 Client-side by the seaside https://cargowire.net/events/dconstruct2011 2011-09-02 never 0.5 /events/dconstruct2011 dConstruct 2011 https://cargowire.net/about 2025-03-30 monthly 1 /about About What is cargowire https://cargowire.net/interesting 2025-03-30 monthly 0.5 /interesting Links Sites of interest https://cargowire.net/notes 2025-03-30 monthly 1 /notes Notes