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The marketing agency I work for have just launched a used caravan sales website, which is the biggest project I’ve worked on to date for the agency.

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Ok, firstly I’d like to apologise for not blogging for a while, but I have a million and one excuses, including trying to sell my house. Less said about the state of the UK property market the better.

Anyway since my last blog, I’ve been doing a lot of reading. Some of this includes tips on general web stuff such as search engine optimisation. However, my biggest area of reading has been into Agile web development, specifically in .Net. Has it been a life changing experience? No, but it certainly has made a big difference to my coding and how I organise things within projects. I have discovered sites such as:

• CodeBetter.Com which is an endless source of information about the latest coding practices.
• .Net Rocks! a weekly Internet audio talk show for .NET Developers
• dnrTV a great visual source for learning new .Net stuff

I have moved away from reading so many web standards blogs and got my head down to catch up with .Net. I figured that the W3C move so slowly on everything they do I can easily jump out of reading those blogs for quite some time and jump back in at a later date.

So in terms of my blog I intend to start writing articles on my learning of the model / view / presenter architecture and other agile based ideas.

I’ve just put my house on the market and this has made me question what it is that Estate Agents actually do.

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I found out something very random today. Whilst doing a search on theusualsuspect.com I noticed an email address in some of the search results. The email address was kaiser_sose [at] theusualsuspect [dot] com. For years now I’ve had spam emails hitting that email address and I’ve just assumed it was some spammers with a slight interest in the film, however it appears someone (I believe they are German) has been registering an email address under my domain. The question is what on earth can I do about it? I believe there is nothing, maybe I can ask to have the email address removed, but my German is pretty poor.

My brother has set up new website about investing in dubai. No doubt this will mean he will want lots of advice from me on how to do things. The site itself is a great idea for telling people how they can invest their money in dubai. To be honest I’m half tempted myself, except for the fact that I’m busy trying to buy a new house here in the UK. The reason I’m tempted is due to the rate these properties are rising in value, it’s a great investment opportunity. Maybe in a few more years I’ll be able to put some money down on one of these dubai properties.

Ok, so I’ve tried writing a blog in the past and after a while the whole thing has died a death. I think my main problem is that I read loads of other blogs and everyone else seems to have better and more important things to say. One thing I’ve come to realise though, the blog isn’t for other people it’s for me, so I’m going to give it another shot. I’m going to add things to this blog that are important to me, and if someone else reads it then great and if not I’m fine with that, at least I’ll have somewhere to put stuff for future use.

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