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I Graduated in Natural Sciences (Chemistry & Physics) from Durham University, where I did not cover myself with glory, but did fill, and often cover, myself with beer.

I qualified as a secondary school teacher, but I hated teaching. I worked as an IT techhie for a few years but kept being promoted to IT Trainer, thanks to my teaching experience, which I also disliked. I spent some time working out what else I could do instead and reduced beer intake.

I realised that I should work as a programmer, having enjoyed it a hobby since I was a nipper in the halcyon days of the Sinclair Spectrum (48k, Rubber Keyboard). Spent two weeks working out why I didn't think of this to start with, instead of starting my dull-as-ditch-water Chemistry degree 8 years earlier. Had a beer to celebrate.

I Graduated in 2001 with an MSc from Newcastle Uni in Comp Sci. Did cover myself with glory, and drank some beer.

.Netting ever since, and loving it. Though I have largely given up beer due to not being able to hack the pace like I used to.

I was born, brought up, and have lived most of my life near Newcastle. In a fit of temporary insanity I moved to Amman, in my wife's homeland of Jordan, but made it back safely to the UK without any extra holes being made in my person by bullets. To be fair it was pretty safe at the time, if you ignored the roads.

Visit Jordan if you can by the way, the landscape is beautiful and varied, the food excellent and the people the friendliest on earth, after Geordies naturally Smile | :) .

  

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GeneralIt Builds!!!!!! Pin
Keith Barrow18-May-11 14:03
professionalKeith Barrow18-May-11 14:03 
RantWhy Our Code Base Sucks Today II Pin
Keith Barrow13-May-11 7:44
professionalKeith Barrow13-May-11 7:44 
It looks like we've had the cowboys in. I took our live website (did I mention, we develop against live?) and tried to get the solution to build. So far I've cleared literally 1000s of build errors, most due to copy-and-paste of aspx, leaving two UIs pointing at the same code behind file, naturally only one will work as the other references unspecfied variables. It has taken be a day an a half to clear that. Now I've put it into a proper web application, I'm getting a second tranche of errors: no namespacing in the original means duplicate classes. Now I've found Governance.aspx.cs contains a class called "About_Mission", we also have an About_Mission page. Currently the number of errors stands at 278, but I doubt this is the real figure. Worse, I can't automate the process as nothing is consistent.
Buck obviously thought cut and paste is good (hence my problems), whereas real code-reuse is bad, about 70% of the stuff he copied could've been put into a base class. We [currently] use url parameters for pretty much everything, but no UrlParameter class to manage it, so the few parameters we do use are store as magic srtings everywhere in our code-base. I suppose I should be impressed our site works as well as it should.

GeneralWhoa - 2 Months and I have TFS Server! Pin
Keith Barrow5-May-11 1:49
professionalKeith Barrow5-May-11 1:49 
GeneralA new TLA* for the masses [modified] Pin
Keith Barrow20-Mar-11 5:03
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GeneralRe: A new TLA* for the masses Pin
DaveAuld31-Mar-11 3:36
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GeneralRe: A new TLA* for the masses Pin
Keith Barrow31-Mar-11 4:18
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GeneralWhy our code base sucks Pin
Keith Barrow18-Mar-11 5:44
professionalKeith Barrow18-Mar-11 5:44 
GeneralNew Job "Web Team Leader" Pin
Keith Barrow14-Mar-11 10:07
professionalKeith Barrow14-Mar-11 10:07 
GeneralNew Job - "Web Manager" Pin
Keith Barrow7-Feb-11 1:58
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GeneralRe: New Job - "Web Manager" Pin
Ali Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan)26-Feb-11 3:18
professionalAli Al Omairi(Abu AlHassan)26-Feb-11 3:18 
GeneralPlease leave message after the tone Pin
Keith Barrow4-Jan-11 7:57
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