So many of you know that I'm a programmer and that I write quite a bit of code (or at least I did).  So why, unlike other blogs, do I not paste code here or show you something interesting and neat?  That question has been posed to me many a time and the reason is that the code I run into these days that's interesting or neat or code that I write that's interesting and neat simply isn't short.  The code requires a deeper understanding of the system it's being implemented for and without understanding the problem the solution is useless to the viewer.  So why not tips and techniques?  Well, for the most part the internet is a large enough place that it's going to be far easier to find such items out there but I will endeavour to post some interesting tidbits from time to time.