Bruce Boughton

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Madgex
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Internet Computing at Sussex

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Friday, 2008-05-16

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Thursday, 2008-05-15

[dbo].[Fruit Salad] on Down at Silicon Beach

Every now and then we have a Hack Day at Madgex. We've just had our third one (the second one during my Madgex tenure), appropriately named Madgex Hack Day III (photos, tweets) and accompanied by some brilliant t-shirts. While Andrew, Graham, Nick and I spent the day dicking around with a table football table, an [...]
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Shared The Morning Brew #94 on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Wednesday, 2008-05-14

Shared Comcast to Acquire Plaxo; Pulse to Become Central to Creating Unified ... (John/Plaxo's Personal Card) on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared SMS texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space! on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Tuesday, 2008-05-13

Shared Bike Trees: Preventing theft by parking bikes up in the air on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Monday, 2008-05-12

Shared The strange saga of Lewis Hamilton and his front-right tyre in Turkey(episode 2) on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Sunday, 2008-05-11
Saturday, 2008-05-10
Friday, 2008-05-09

Shared Announcing Facebook Connect (Dave Morin/Facebook Developers) on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Wednesday, 2008-05-07

Shared Rackspace Unveils Mosso For Scalable Storage on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Building the Real-time Web on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Jealousy on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Tuesday, 2008-05-06

Shared OpenID with myVidoop on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared VMWare Takes Wraps Off Fusion 2.0 Beta on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Understanding Model-View-Controller on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared LINQ to SQL Tips 3: Deferred (lazy) or eager loading of related objects with on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Synchronisation on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Google Reader Gets More Social: Now With Notes (Duncan Riley/TechCrunch) on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Monday, 2008-05-05

Shared Moving to Unicode 5.1 on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Free Chapter from Douglas Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Shared Actively enforce your conventions on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Saturday, 2008-05-03

Watching/attending May 19, 2008: DJUGL (Django Users Group London) Meetup at Capital Radio Building, GCap Media on Upcoming

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Thursday, 2008-05-01

Watching/attending Jun 11, 2008: Skillswap goes Javascript at Lighthouse on Upcoming

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Type: Education

Wednesday, 2008-04-30

Shared The Man Who Fell Sideways on Bruce Boughton's shared items in Google Reader

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Sunday, 2008-04-27

Bookmarked Integrating Languages in the Visual Studio Shell – Aaron Marten (aaronm@microsoft.com) and Carl Brochu (cbrochu@microsoft.com) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Thursday, 2008-04-24

Bookmarked VisualSVN Server using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Saturday, 2008-04-19
Sunday, 2008-04-06

Snow in April? on Down at Silicon Beach

If you haven't heard by now, Brighton woke up this morning to quilt of snow. We went down to the beach to marvel: Climate change is not all bad…
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Tagged: Brighton, Life

Saturday, 2008-04-05

Watching/attending May 27, 2008: Microformats vEvent at The Yorkshire Grey, Holborn on Upcoming

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Homes & Gardens features O’Fabulous on Down at Silicon Beach

I recently designed a website for O'Fabulous, a wonderful boutique hotel in County Donegal, Ireland, created by my friends at Swell Group. Now, the May issue of Homes & Gardens has featured O'Fabulous in its Destinations section: This is everything that a boutique hotel should be: small, perfectly formed and oozing personality. O'Fabulous indeed. Click below to [...]
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Wednesday, 2008-03-26

Bookmarked 960 Grid System using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

A CSS framework for grid layouts which gives either 12 or 16 columns in a 960px wide design.
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Sunday, 2008-03-16

Bookmarked CodeProject: Alternative to the C# out keyword using Generics, Anonymous methods and Type converters. Free source code and programming help using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

A generic result class for passing outcome information as well as data from a method.
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Saturday, 2008-03-15

Watching/attending Jun 7, 2008: 2nd Red Bull Flugtag at Hyde Park on Upcoming

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Type: Festivals

Wednesday, 2008-03-12

Bookmarked PolyPage using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Polypage was designed to ease the process of showing multiple page states in html mock-ups. By adding simply adding class names to a document you can imply state and conditional view logic.
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Bookmarked Choosing a Distributed Version Control System - Dave Dribin's Blog using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Comparison of 3 Distributed Version Control Systems: git, mercurial, and bazaar.
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Monday, 2008-03-03

Bookmarked The Complete Inspector Morse: From the Original Novels to the TV Series – David Bishop using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

A reference guide to the Inspector Morse novels and TV series.
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Bookmarked Tropic of Capricorn – Australia (BBC iPlayer) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Travel documentary. Simon Reeve travels the Tropic of Capricorn. In Australia, he witnesses the migration of the humpbacked whale and visits the Great Barrier Reef.
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Sunday, 2008-03-02

Bookmarked The Bank Job (2008) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine, a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity
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Saturday, 2008-03-01

Watching/attending Sep 15, 2008: Performance Testing - A Heuristic Approach (3 day course) at The Werks on Upcoming

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Type: Education

Watching/attending Sep 18, 2008: Performance Testing with Scott Barber (1 day course) at The Werks on Upcoming

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Type: Education

Wednesday, 2008-02-27

Bookmarked Better SCM Initiative : Comparison using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Point comparison of popular Source Control systems
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Tuesday, 2008-02-26

Bookmarked InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper (by ratings) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Bookmarked Desktop Wallpapers | Vladstudio.com - free desktop wallpapers, widescreen, dual monitors, iPhone wallpapers, backgrounds for mobile phones, wallpaper clocks, e-cards using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Friday, 2008-02-22

Bookmarked || Dummy Text Generator | Lorem ipsum for webdesigners || using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Tuesday, 2008-02-19

Bookmarked Meet iPaper | Scribd using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

iPaper is for documents what YouTube is for video – a lightweight document viewer built in Flash capable of displaying PDFs, office documents, graphics, etc. with find-as-you-type. Built in ad-monetisation allows Google AdWords adverts to appear on your
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Bookmarked LINQ To SQL and Stored Procedures : Visual Studio 2008 and Repository Factory - David Hayden [MVP C#] using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

How LINQ to SQL can use existing stored procedures to create a CRUD data access layer for your business objects.
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Bookmarked How to Speak – Patrick Winston using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Lecture by Patrick Winston (in QuickTime format) about techniques for public speaking. In the talk, he exhibits many of the techniques and offers up advice on how to employ them in your own talks.
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Bookmarked An ergonomically designed mouse 'Wow-Pen Joy' unveiled - AVING USA using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- <Visual News> Wow Technology(www.wow-pen.com), well known for pen-type mouse, unveiled its ergonomically designed USB mouse ‘Wow-Pen Joy’ in Korea market.
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Friday, 2008-02-15

Bookmarked The Green Mile (1999) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

The story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the execution of a wrongly accused man who has the power of faith healing.
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Wednesday, 2008-02-13

Bookmarked Preview 3: Backpack Page Changes - (37signals) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

37signals demonstrate a neat way to provide information from other collaborators when working with shared documents.
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Monday, 2008-02-11

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Bookmarked The Prestige (2006) using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Bookmarked The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So, to make ends meet, alongside her job at the diner Mary Beth works by practicing her own unique talent: 'song reading'. By making sense of the so
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Saturday, 2008-02-09

Bookmarked Fail Again Crane using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Tuesday, 2008-02-05

Tip: How to convert Atom feeds to RSS on Down at Silicon Beach

I recently had a support call for backnetwork where posts weren't coming through for one of the organiser's feeds. The problem was that the feed was in Atom format, and we don't currently support Atom on backnetwork (we're working on it!). I searched around for an Atom to RSS converter but couldn't find one [...]
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Sunday, 2008-02-03

Bookmarked PS, I Love You – Cecelia Ahern using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Bookmarked Atonement – Ian McEwan using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

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Bookmarked Lewis Hamilton: My Story – Lewis Hamilton using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Lewis Hamilton tells the story of his life leading up to his rookie season in Formula 1.
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Bookmarked Not Dead Enough – Peter James using del.icio.us/bruceboughton

Suspense-packed thriller about a psycho killer in Brighton out to wreak revenge. Three dead bodies point to one man, but did he do it?
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Friday, 2008-01-11

Recognition on Down at Silicon Beach

It's always nice to get some recognition for a job well done. Jane, Iain, Mike and Alison have all been working hard on the Haymarket project for a couple of months now. I joined them in December to work on some of the new features for Brand Republic and it's been good. It's sites like [...]
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Friday, 2007-10-26

s/pc/mac on Down at Silicon Beach

So, finally, I have ditched my PC for a nice shiny new Mac—a 24″ iMac to be precise. Did I mention it's sexy? Right now I'm feeling a bit disoriented, mainly because I'm a keyboard shortcut kinda guy (what's this round orb on my desk?) and they're all completely different on the Mac. [...]
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Friday, 2007-10-05

Plane spotting on Down at Silicon Beach

I'm sitting in Heathrow T4 looking out over the airfield with jumbos taking off over my head. I'm off to Toronto with my girlfriend for two days and then on to New York, New York for six. I've been told the weather out there is very nice. My girlfriend has been in [...]
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Saturday, 2007-09-15

BrightonDigital Mailing List on Down at Silicon Beach

I recently joined the BrightonDigital mailing list, which is a business-oriented digital media mailing list for Brighton (duh!). Although it's got nowhere near the traffic of Brighton New Media, it's steadily growing in size as Ian notes. While BNM seems to be a catch-all mailing list (recent topics have included alien sightings, a [...]
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Thursday, 2007-09-06

LINQ at VBUG on Down at Silicon Beach

A bunch of us from Madgex launched a pincer movement on the Brighton Visual Basic User Group (VBUG) on Tuesday night to listen to a talk by Ian Cooper on LINQ. LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a .NET 3.0 technology which provides a type-safe query language integrated directly into the various CLR languages. It allows [...]
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Tagged: .NET, Technology

Sunday, 2007-09-02

Planning a Trip 2.oh on Down at Silicon Beach

At the moment, I'm trying to plan a multi-city break to Toronto and New York with my girlfriend. The flights to and from Toronto are already booked, but I need to sort out a hotel in Toronto, flights to and from New York and a hotel in New York. No big deal, right. [...]
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Wednesday, 2007-08-29

Pet Hate: Login to Unsubscribe on Down at Silicon Beach

Grrrrrr… it makes me soooo angry when a site makes you login to unsubscribe from an email. Normally, if I want to unsubscribe, it's because I'm bored of your service. What makes you think I remember my login credentials? Calm breathing, Bruce. We can get through this…
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dConstruct ‘07 Fast Approaching on Down at Silicon Beach

It's been a busy few weeks for me—so much so that I hadn't realised quite how soon dConstruct is. At Madgex, we're sponsoring the event so there's been a sudden rush of activity. Of course, the main thing we've done for the conference is the Backnetwork: http://dconstruct07.backnetwork.com/. (If you're going to dConstruct [...]
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Saturday, 2007-07-14

Trojan Horse on Down at Silicon Beach

What would happen if you tried to tow a giant Trojan horse into secure facilities. Let's find out… Update: Would any airline be so stupid as to put out a boarding call for Al Kyder or Terry Wrist? The answer, surprisingly, is yes (YouTube).
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Thursday, 2007-07-12

The Amber Room—Steve Berry on Down at Silicon Beach

The fate of the Amber Room is one of the abiding mysteries of the 20th Century. We have many photographs of the magnificent creation - a room in the Tsar's palace at Tsarskoe Selo panelled in huge sheets of beautiful, glossy amber - and we know that the Nazis dismantled it and took it [...]
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Car-bon Neutral on Down at Silicon Beach

BP have launched Target Neutral—a way to offset the damage your car does to Mother Earth. To 'neutralise your CO2 emissions', you enter the make, body shape and fuel type of your car along with your annual mileage and average fuel economy. You're told just how many tonnes of carbon dioxide your car [...]
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Reading List

Currently reading

  1. The Complete Inspector Morse: From the Original Novels to the TV Series – David Bishop

    A reference guide to the Inspector Morse novels and TV series.

    Monday, 2008-03-03

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  2. Lewis Hamilton: My Story – Lewis Hamilton

    Lewis Hamilton tells the story of his life leading up to his rookie season in Formula 1.

    Monday, 2008-02-11

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Recently read

  1. Not Dead Enough – Peter James

    Suspense-packed thriller about a psycho killer in Brighton out to wreak revenge. Three dead bodies point to one man, but did he do it?

    Monday, 2008-02-11

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  2. The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker

    Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So, to make ends meet, alongside her job at the diner Mary Beth works by practicing her own unique talent: 'song reading'. By making sense of the so

    Monday, 2008-02-11

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Future reads

  1. Atonement – Ian McEwan

    Monday, 2008-02-11

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  2. PS, I Love You – Cecelia Ahern

    Monday, 2008-02-11

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