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Coder Dojo in MS Dublin
Last week we finished up for the summer after a pilot run of Coder Dojo sessions which were held at...
Author: DermotB Date: 07/10/2013
Languages I have learned
Ok, that should more accurately read “used” or even “abused" - as most of these...
Author: DermotB Date: 04/17/2013
Exam 70-483: Programming in C# 5.0
I took and passed this exam this morning and am feeling quite happy with myself. It is the first of...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/27/2013
Detecting repeated parameter values across multiple method calls
So this was actually asked of me once in an "interview style" situation and it took me quite a while...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/11/2013
Linked list stuff in a modern environment
So recently somebody asked about this and seemed surprised when I said that owing to the...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/11/2013
Checking for a prime number
Ok, looking back at the original post I'm nearly regretting it as I need to find the time to...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/08/2013
Checking if a string is a palindrome
Back in my original college days (over 20 years ago now) this used to be the subject of a running...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/08/2013
Quicksort
Along with Mergesort, Bubblesort and others, Quicksorting of arrays is a standard on any fully...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/06/2013
Greatest Common Divisor (and Lowest Common Multiple)
It's worth repeating the wikipedia definition for GCD here, as it's explains it well: "The greatest...
Author: DermotB Date: 03/04/2013
Binary Search Tree
This is a simple data structure, but again one with which many of us may have not been familiar with...
Author: DermotB Date: 02/22/2013
Checking a string for a valid ISBN number
Continuing the series of "things you may have done in college" this next one is all about array...
Author: DermotB Date: 02/20/2013
Comparing strings with a '*' wildcard character
This was a nice challenge, and while I have here a version that works, I have certainly not tested...
Author: DermotB Date: 02/18/2013
Technical Interview/screen questions...
This topic has come up in my circles lately. Actually I've found myself more than once in...
Author: DermotB Date: 02/12/2013
MCTS in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Customization and Configuration (MB2-866)
I passed this exam today, on my second attempt. MS description is here:...
Author: DermotB Date: 01/23/2013
Implementing the share contract in my Windows 8 App
So I've blogged already about my first Windows 8 app and how I got the background task to update my...
Author: DermotB Date: 12/17/2012
Scraping text from web pages
We've all written some html over the years (ok, in my case not so much), and maybe we all have our...
Author: DermotB Date: 11/02/2012
Removing duplicate screenshot images
Readers of some of my other posts will have gathered by now that my day job involves work on a large...
Author: DermotB Date: 10/22/2012
Building a searchable compiled help file
Working in test automation sometimes involves more than just working towards good infrastructure,...
Author: DermotB Date: 10/21/2012
CareerZoo 22nd September - links
I'm giving/gave (depending on when you read this) a short talk on building apps (mainly WP7, little...
Author: DermotB Date: 09/21/2012
Managing multiple changelists/check-ins in Source depot with help from Excel
I’ve been working on some changes which involve both the additon of new projects as well as...
Author: DermotB Date: 08/23/2012
Windows Phone 7: Dynamically adding an Rss feed per panorama page
My first WP7 app was a little Rss reader for one of my favourite news sites. It’s quite easy...
Author: DermotB Date: 08/17/2012
Updating an entity's related entity set
The problem: I had an issue with entity updates from a CRM solution. I have a plug-in with a step...
Author: DermotB Date: 08/10/2012
Resolving/deactivating entities in a CRM based job or bug tracking system
I have a prototype job tracking system based on CRM 2011. I’ve used job tracking systems and...
Author: DermotB Date: 07/31/2012
Dynamics CRM 2011: Rolling up subgrid totals to a form field
MSCRM does require a little bit of coding when we try to add form field values. A common scenario is...
Author: DermotB Date: 07/05/2012