This is the personal hompage of John  Nunn, a software developer based in Coventry, U.K..

I own a software development company (Tortrix Ltd.) providing software solutions and I.T. services to the Health Care industry. Our solutions include knowledge management dashboards, intranet & extranet solutions using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as well as bespoke solutions.

When not trying to earn a living I help to run a number of Developer comunities, I manage the Midlands Developer network; and I am the regional co-ordinator for VBUG in the midlands.

• 25% discount on all Apress books

  December 23, 2009

   

  As a Christmas thank you Apress are offering a 25% discount on all purchases at Apress.com from now until 31st December. Just enter the promotional code APRESSHOLIDAYML during check out.

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• Developer Developer Developer Day 8

  December 11, 2009

  The eighth Developer Day Event at Microsoft’s UK Campus in Reading has been announced for Saturday 30th January 2010!  Call for speakers has now been open so if you’ve always thought of submitting a session, go for it.

  I’d need to start writing abstracts for my submissions.

  The link for  submissions is - ...

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• Windows 7 Personalisation

  November 10, 2009

  The Windows Personalization Gallery, is a great place to personalise your PC experience. There are some cool new themes from big name brands

      

  and new country based themes.

     

   

  You can also download new Desktop gadgets for your favourite Search provider

   

  or to keep ...

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• Formatting decimal data with C#

  November 03, 2009

  One problem I recently faced was an application that printed directions for drug prescriptions. The main problem I was facing was only showing decimal places if the user entered them. For example the user may have wanted to prescribe 1.25ml of a drug however if when the meant 1ml 1.00ml appeared on the prescription ...

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• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Released

  October 20, 2009

  Microsoft have released the second beta of Visual Studio 2010 today, for MSDN subscribers.

  Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Dot Net framework 4 Beta 2 will be made available to the general public on 21st October, with the final launch date now being 22nd March 2010.

  One major change with this ...

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