My name is

David Cumps

Freelance software engineer

A passionate geek, always curious, always learning.

FLAC stores music without any loss of quality, at a fraction of the size of wave files. Why it's the right format for an audiophile.

The Russian store behind AllOfMp3 and Mp3Sparks let you pick the format and quality of every song and pay by file size, a model I'd buy from.

Getting PHP syntax coloring in Visual Studio 2008 by treating .php files as C++ with a registry file and a custom usertype.dat.

Writing debug messages from C# with System.Diagnostics and reading them, locally or remotely, with Sysinternals DebugView.

Introducing myself on the new blog in 2007: from an Amiga 500 and QBasic through PHP to C# and .NET.

After three years on weblogs.asp.net, the blog moves to its own domain, with a new design based on Coding Horror and Fluid Solution.

Windows Search can look inside files, but by default not inside .sql or .php files. One registry key per extension fixes that.

Back from WebDD 2007 in Reading: sessions on microformats, CSS, Ruby on Rails and unobtrusive JavaScript, and pizza with new contacts.

Microsoft UK sent a personal confirmation and a campus security badge for the free WebDD 2007 event in Reading.