The digital home of Richard Garside

This is my digital home, a resting place for my personal and client projects. I'm a web developer based in Leeds. I specialise in .NET MVC and Flash ActionScript projects. You can find out more about me here.

Recent stuff from my blog

  • Bridge statistics, manga and SQL

    I didn't enjoy stats at school very much. It seemed a very dry subject that involved a lot of tedious calculations and I didn't really see the point. Perhaps if we'd been encouraged to use computers to do the tedious stuff and been given data sets that were more interesting I'd have realised that actually stats can be a very interesting subject.

    After reviewing and enjoying The Manga Guide to Relativity, I was excited to be sent a copy of The Manga Guide to Statistics to review. It inspired me to look at statistics again. Perhaps they do have a point, perhaps with some interesting data and … more

  • Moving from Subversion to Mercurial and Bitbucket

    I've been using Mercurial for source control on my own small projects for a while and have really liked it. I've also wanted to stop supporting my own Subversion server, but previously I've found hosted solutions too expensive. That's why I like Bitbucket's pricing structure. I have lots of projects that need source control, but I either work alone or as part of a small team. Bitbucket charges by the team size, not the number of projects (which seems like a much better way to judge the budget of a project) and it's free for teams of 5 or under.

    I've wanted to move my existing subversion … more

  • Movember at Old Broadcasting House

    November has been Movember for some of us at Old Broadcasting House.

    Movember is all about growing a moustache to raise awareness and money for prostate and testicular cancer. There's only one day left and I will be shaving my moustache off as soon as possible. However Chris and Leo like theirs so much they're planning on keeping them for a bit longer into Mocember.

    You can donate to any of us or the team at our Movember pages (in order of photo appearance):

    Leo (fantastic tache) Fowler

    Chris (killer whiskers) Kenworthy

    Richard (gringo) Garside

    Cactus photo by: Alan Levine more