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Recent Blog Posts

I was tagged in: tools windows top5

12/5/2008 6:08:06 AM

Lots of tools are useful, but here's my favourite 5 tools which I install on every pc I use regularly. ....

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I was tagged in: bloomberg vba excel real-time

12/3/2008 10:38:24 AM

The RTD / BDP functions provide real-time data from bloomberg directly to an excel sheet. However if you're subscribing to fields which Bloomberg hasn't designated to be 'real-time enabled' you have to manually refresh bloomberg data for it to have any effect. ....

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I was tagged in: excel file-size

12/1/2008 6:14:22 AM

If you have an excel file over 10mb in size excel could become unstable and it will take forever to save, backup, or pretty much do anything with. It will also use significantly more memory, degrading the performance of your machine as a whole. ....

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I was tagged in: vba ioc dependency injection csharp

11/10/2008 4:31:20 AM

Regardless of how much time Microsoft invests into developing Visual Studio Tools for Office there’s still going to be a market for VBA, but that doesn’t mean we have to compromise our methodologies or best practices. ....

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I was tagged in: internet interests c sharp

10/9/2008 6:28:49 PM

I've just started delving into StackOverflow.com, and I think it's great! Good job all involved! ....

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About This Site

This is the personal website of Matthew Rathbone, a .NET developer from the UK. It contains (or will contain) a record of key projects, his musings on various programming topics, and key contact information.


This site has been made from scratch during slow personal work periods and will continue to grow whenever time allows. It has been created using ASP.NET and C# 3.5


Lots of wonderful features are planned, including such things as Digg/Reddit/dotNetKicks links, and better blog navigation

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