Ian Battersby
A colleague just came to me asking for advice on how to set the value of a referenced parameter with Moq; after nearly berating him for not checking Google I was surprised to find examples out there don't actually make it that obvious to the uninitiated.
What a fantastic ride the last 2.5 years have been since setting myself up as an independent consultant and contractor despite the recession business has not only prospered but grown from strength to strength, especially in terms of opportunities to work with new technology.
I'm planning a series on Lucene/Solr integration with NHibernate & Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC in the coming weeks but thought this might interest those planning to use Solr on Windows.
It seems many years since I attended any geeky conferences or user-groups, in fact whilst at Microsoft in Reading yesterday it dawned on me it's been nearly 10 years since I was last there, and suspect it was the release of C# that had brought me on that occasion. My day at DDD8 yesterday reminded me how much I'd been missing out.
There is said to be a "genius in all of us". Well I'm not sure about that, but an overly neurotic technology-loving passionate geek there is in me for sure.