Andrew Aitken's bloghttps://www.andrewaitken.com/en-ushttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2026/writing-with-claude/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2026/writing-with-claude/After a ten year gap, I've found Claude to be just what I needed to write more blog postsTue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2026/pivot/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2026/pivot/Lessons from a project pivot - why taking the time to understand the problem your client is trying to solve is just as important as capturing what they want to build.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2016/suzuki-violin-book-one/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2016/suzuki-violin-book-one/Reaching the last song in Suzuki Violin Book 1 after two years of weekly lessons.Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2015/getting-parts-of-request-uri/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2015/getting-parts-of-request-uri/A quick reference for the different properties available on a .NET Uri object.Thu, 21 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2014/extensionattribute-defined-multiple-assemblies/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2014/extensionattribute-defined-multiple-assemblies/Fixing a Visual Studio build warning caused by Lucene.Net defining ExtensionAttribute in the System.Runtime.CompilerServices namespace.Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2014/shooting-film/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2014/shooting-film/My journey into film photography, from a Pentax MX to a Holga, and why shooting film is worth the effort.Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2014/deploying-my-blog-with-travis/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2014/deploying-my-blog-with-travis/Setting up Travis CI to automatically deploy a Pelican blog to GitHub Pages on every push.Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/creating-a-custom-section-in-umbraco-6-part-2/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/creating-a-custom-section-in-umbraco-6-part-2/Implementing custom trees with child nodes and context menus in Umbraco 6.Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/creating-a-custom-section-in-umbraco-6-part-1/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/creating-a-custom-section-in-umbraco-6-part-1/A guide to creating a custom application section in Umbraco v6.1.Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/nearly-there/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/nearly-there/Site updated with a new responsive design, with a few things still to fix.Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/making-things-squishy/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/making-things-squishy/Converting the blog to use Twitter Bootstrap for a responsive mobile-friendly design.Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/its-in-there-somewhere/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/its-in-there-somewhere/A visual representation of a .NET codebase.Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/instant-insanity-solver/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/instant-insanity-solver/Writing a C# program to solve the Instant Insanity puzzle found at my sister's house.Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/comma-separated-lists/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2013/comma-separated-lists/A handy generic method for creating comma separated strings from object properties in C#.Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2012/another-small-update/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2012/another-small-update/Converting the blog to Umbraco and starting a remote control rover robot project.Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2012/model-parent-null/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2012/model-parent-null/Debugging a strange Umbraco issue where Model.Parent was always null due to naming conflicts.Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2012/small-update/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2012/small-update/Fixing a 404 logging issue and planning future blog improvements.Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/500-recipes-for-chicken/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/500-recipes-for-chicken/Passing the last MCPD exams, monsoon rains, and celebrating in Calangute.Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/one-week-to-go/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/one-week-to-go/Passing the WCF exam and halfway through the MCPD course in Goa.Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/down-the-road/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/down-the-road/Passing the 70-515 exam and celebrating in the bars and clubs of Goa.Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/hello-bedsheets/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/hello-bedsheets/Studying hard for the 70-515 exam and encountering the salespeople of Goa.Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/non-stop-tooting/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/non-stop-tooting/Navigating the streets and traffic of Goa, finding a KFC, and surviving the lunch menu.Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/goa-baby/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/goa-baby/Arriving in Goa for an MCPD course. First impressions of the apartment, the heat, and the food.Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/caching-file-contents-with-cachedependency/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/caching-file-contents-with-cachedependency/Using CacheDependency to monitor a file for changes and automatically invalidate the cache.Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/first-post/https://www.andrewaitken.com/posts/2011/first-post/The first post on my blog, built with asp.net MVC 3 and the Razor view engine.Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT