Creating Code Listings in WordPress using Visual Studio

In WordPress it has historically been quite hard to paste code listings into the editors and get them to look good.  There are some plugins that try to do it, but none of them seem to work very well with code copied out of Visual Studio. Edit 2016:  Wordpress themselves have now solved the problem …

Delegate Syntax in C# for Beginners

Introduction I have been programming with C# since it came out but I still find the delegate syntax confusing.  This is at least partially because Microsoft have changed the recommended syntax regularly over the years.  This article is a quick recap of the various syntaxes.  It also looks at some of the issues with using …

Why Some Password Security is a Waste of Time

Introduction This is very off-topic, but a recent MSDN article and a paper it referenced got me thinking about password security in our organization.  If my maths is right, the costs of the way we do this are huge. Changing Passwords Monthly I work for a very large bank (it has about 300,000 employees, or …