I like you

I like you Originally uploaded by SimonAntony.co.uk I like you I do, honestly I do, fancy a date?

Scanning Electron Microscope Image

This scanning electron microscope image, The Glass Forest by Mario De Stefano, won first place in photography in the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. It shows a community of tiny diatoms – algae characterised by a peculiar glass-like cell…

B&B nationalisation is confirmed

I’m glad my mortgage is not with B&B: Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) is to be nationalised, the government has confirmed. Under the arrangement, the government will take control of the bank’s £50bn in mortgages and loans. Shares in…

About the name Simon Steed

This is funny as hell, did a search on google for my name and blog and came across a site which promised to tell me all about myself, some of the stuff is pretty cool, things like Apparently i’m very…

Dotnet Charting

I was looking for some suitable dotnet charting components/code and came across the following three articles. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/pseabury/2DCharting11152005052210AM/2DCharting.aspx http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/steve_hall/drawinglinechart02072007053420AM/drawinglinechart.aspx http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/jodonnell/ChartingInGDIplus11192005063716AM/ChartingInGDIplus.aspx Heres a screenshot of the one i’m using:

Exception Handling the nice way

I’ve knocked up a simple project that demonstrates a few things, namely: Avoiding file locking issues when writing to a logfile using recursion Dealing with Unhandled Exceptions globally Writing this data to a local log file The source code is…

Erect

Erect Originally uploaded by SimonAntony.co.uk I love the serenity of this, it’s so obscure this tower sat in the middle of nowhere – in fact when the tide comes in, it laps at the edge of the green grass, even…

What type of drinker are you?

Apparently the british government have determined that there are nine types of drinker – excerpt from the BBC website: Drinkers fall into ‘nine groups’ The government believes it has identified nine types of heavy drinker as it launches a new…

Get your local machine/computer name in c#

Four ways to get your local network/machine name: string name = Environment.MachineName; string name = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName(); string name = System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName; string name = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“COMPUTERNAME”);