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Adrian Ritchie

A .Net developer on the sunny island of Guernsey and an offroading nutter on an R1200GS (see @ridearound).

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I know it’s been a while since I last posted but this is going to be short and sweet.  I’ve just been working on a SharePoint 2010 site where I’ve need to change the names of site content types and have the changes pushed down to a ...

After a very last minute decision to switch my hosting to http://www.encapture...

This is a little macro that you can use in Visual Studio to make it easy to attach to the w3wp processes that are spawned by IIS: I should point out that in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 you will need to run Visual Studio as Administrator, or disable ...

For recycling purposes,  plastics are divided into 7 different categories that are numbered 1 to 7.  In Guernsey at present, we are only recycling categories, Nos. 1, 2 & 6. Inclusion of the wrong kind of plastic into the recycling bins, can lead to ...

Today I tried migrating a Visual Studio WPSBuilder project from one machine to another.  The originating machine was 32bit Windows Server 2008 the destination machine was 32bit Windows Sever 2003 Standard. To migrate the project I simply zipped the ...

One of the neat features that I used frequently in MacOS X Leopard & Tiger was the ability to use the wifi connection tool to get the passwords for wifi networks that you have already connected to.  Being a consultant I am constantly hopping networks ...

Every once in a while I manage to pull together a meal that astounds me.  I tweeted on Sunday with a picture of the meal in question.  What was really special about this meal was the sheer lack of food miles that went into it. Razor clams These were the ...

On my way to bell ringing practice last night I happen to pick up a screw (easy tiger!) in one of my car tyres.  So during my lunch today I took the car into my local Target Auto Parts store to get the puncture fixed. Whilst I was waiting I did what I ...

I’m always looking for the next great thing when it comes to Search.  Google is great but I can’t help but feel it could be better.  Since attending a developer course for FAST ESP back in January I’ve been looking for a Search provider ...

Background: For work, I’m using a Windows 2008 Server virtual machine for doing all my SharePoint and .Net development on.  As it has got all of the cool stuff I’m working on, it is also the machine that I use to demo what I can do to ...