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Darrell Russell. A Software Contractor with over 10 years development experience. He is an experienced Microsoft .NET software developer specialising in C#, VB.NET, SQL Server Databases, ASP/ASP.NET web sites, XML, Web Services, WinForms, WCF and WFF development and consultancy work on a freelance basis. Based in the South West of the UK (Tetbury, Gloucestershire) and available to do work within South Wales, the M4 corridor, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Somerset including Bath, Bristol, Swindon, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Salisbury. At the moment he is particulary interested in Agile Software development methodologies including Test Driven Development (TDD).

December 29, 2006

Tony vs Paul

Filed under: Humour — Dax++ @ 10:19 pm

Thanks for the link Ben .. I’m saving this short film for my own reference.

Even the music is cool.

December 22, 2006

White and Nerdy

Filed under: Humour — Dax++ @ 12:06 am

This one goes out to, what, 50% of all the developers I’ve ever known :)

December 21, 2006

Yosemite Web Cam

Filed under: Rock Climbing — Dax++ @ 11:49 pm

Live View of Half Dome from near Sentinel Dome

Live View of Half Dome from near Sentinel Dome

El Capitan, Yosemite

Filed under: Rock Climbing — Dax++ @ 11:36 pm

El Capitan, Yosemite
(sometimes link doesn’t work .. try this instead El Capitan, Yosemite)

Could I climb a route on this big wall one day?

Probably not, if I’m truefull .. but I think that’s much more of a reflection on my answer to the question: Do I want to climb it?

Wow .. what a crazy place to go .. totally do your head in.

The Funniest Images

Filed under: Humour — Dax++ @ 8:35 pm

The Funniest Images .. Ha, Ha!

December 20, 2006

OLTP Blueprint - A Performance Profile of OLTP applications

Filed under: Databases, SQL Server — Dax++ @ 11:52 am

Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team’s Best Practice for OLTP profiling

Interesting list of checks for SQL Server(?) based OLTP databases .. it’s always a little difficult to find concrete guidelines for optimising databases, so it’s nice to see an actua checklist from the peopel that know.

December 19, 2006

Last weeks training

Filed under: Training — Dax++ @ 6:50 pm

Indoor Bouldering x 1 and Indoor Climbing x 2 last week .. so a good week for climbing :)

Still rubbish stamina though .. just a case of waiting, I suppose.

Oh and one meduim run (2-3 miles) too.

December 14, 2006

Reminder to self - must read this blog on VS Team Development

Filed under: .NET v2, .Net, Software Development, Testing — Dax++ @ 2:06 pm

Unit Testing, Agile Development, Architecture, Team System & .NET - By Roy Osherove

December 13, 2006

Biff’s Question Song

Filed under: Humour — Dax++ @ 10:05 pm

As in Biff from the film “Back to the Future”

Biff’s Question Song

You gotta laugh :)

Tribute - Tenacious D and Dave Grohl (live)

Filed under: Music — Dax++ @ 9:59 pm

Tribute - Tenacious D and Dave Grohl (live)

Let there be ROCK! :)

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