Alan Dean

Alan Dean at DDD7 Geek Dinner in 2008
13 Darvel Close
Woking, Surrey, GU21 4XG
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 7960 737 585
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Introduction

I am a professional developer, born in Yorkshire and now living in Woking near London.

I am currently the CTO of MoveMe.com, a London-based startup. For further information on my career, please see my LinkedIn Profile

I fill much of my spare time with research into various techical subjects that interest me. In particular, I have set up the Simple Web Services Working Group to define and promote RESTful / Semantic application service protocols.

I am also active in the developer community in the UK, giving presentations to user groups.

Resources

Here is a list of available resources:

RDF Feed for Object Thinking Object Thinking
This is the reference page for my presentation on Object Thinking, which I have been giving since January 2007.
RDF Feed for RDF Cheatsheet RDF Cheatsheet
This is a cheatsheet of common RDF namespace elements.
RDF Feed for HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST) HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)
An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes, given various headers.
RDF Feed for Alan Dean Miscellanea
C# XML Documentation
An explanation of how to use XML documentation in C#.
Web Page Images and Thumbnails
An example of how to create images and thumbnails of web pages.
Backup
A description of the backup strategy that I employ.
HTTP Vocabulary in RDF
Coverage of my interest in the new RDF HTTP-in-RDF schema.
Civility
Some observations about online civility in light of the Kathy Sierra saga.
Visual Studio Search Toolbar
An explanation of how to add a search engine toolbar to Visual Studio.
Using [SqlClientPermission]
A commentary on using Code Access Security to secure data access.
Cultural Misunderstandings
I was greatly amused by this excerpt from the Charlemagne column of The Economist this week.
AssemblyInfo.cs
A well-formed AssemblyInfo template.
[PermissionSetAttribute]
Advice on the usage of the [PermissionSetAttribute].
Geek Gifts
Gifts that only a geek would truly appreciate.
Project Management Proverbs
A selection of project management proverbs.
Colorblind Web Page Filter
This is about a useful accessibility website providing filtered page views indicating colorblindness.
Software intellectual property rights
This is a relection of my opinion regarding software intellectual property rights following a discussion with Robert McLaws.
.NET - The XML and Web Services Perspective
These are contemporaneous notes made during one of the pre-conference sessions on XML at PDC'03 in Los Angeles.
Culture-Invariant DateTime
Commentary and advice about handling date/time information in a culture-invariant manner.
Satellite Assemblies
A walkthrough of how to use satellite assemblies during internationalization.

Presence

Here are external sites where I have a presence: