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About Duncan Butler

I’m Duncan, an entrepreneur and co-founder behind nth.digital and The Puzzle Board, where I combine heritage‑focused creativity with modern technology. My work spans AI development, C# engineering, and collaborative problem‑solving with Squad, building smarter tools, streamlined workflows, and engaging digital experiences. Whether refining puzzle production systems or exploring new AI capabilities, I’m driven by creating practical, intuitive solutions that make technology feel effortless.

Silverlight

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Duncan Butler

  If you haven’t heard, and are a developer, then go look at Silverlight, its got to be big, someone was heard to say that Microsoft has rebooted the web!’ I will be putting up some stuff, once I come … Continue reading →

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Tag Cloud

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Duncan Butler

  This post is actually for my benefit, I want to try out using a tag cloud on a web page I am playing with at the moment, mainly to see how the data will look. This looked a good … Continue reading →

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I am Alive

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Duncan Butler

  Ok so its been a while, and no one noticed, but I am still alive, and have loads of things to blog about, which I hope to do over the next few weeks, I have installed a few new … Continue reading →

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Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of Money 16

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Duncan Butler

so finally we are working on the delete function, when a user clicks on on delete check box’s in the grid, and then clicks update button, the selected items should be deleted. writing a test for this is difficult, as … Continue reading →

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Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of Money 15

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Duncan Butler

next on the list  is to do the add transaction part of the update, this should simply be a case of passing the various form controls to the controller object, getting it to extract the various values and checking that … Continue reading →

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Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of Money 14

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Duncan Butler

  right so we now need to display the balance, this is quite simple as we have a text box that is set to read only, and the balance is available form the engine, now we could add this balance … Continue reading →

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String Formatting in c#

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Duncan Butler

One of those things that I am always forgetting the correct syntax for, here is a handy reference for string formatting in c# SteveX compiled

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Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of Money 13

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Duncan Butler

  OK so I have tested the binding, and made sure that what I thought might work did, transferring this to our formal code means we need a way to test it as close to the interface as possible, personally I … Continue reading →

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Real Test Driven Development – Thinking of Money 12

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Duncan Butler

It took a while to figure out correctly but by adding the grid to the form and opening the data grid view task, I selected the object data source and then clicked next, ok so we want to display money engine transactions, … Continue reading →

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Program Launchers and Spell Checkers

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Duncan Butler

For the last month I have been testing a new program launcher, and spell checker supplied by ENSO now they are two products, so I shall treat them totally separately ENSO Words I have great difficulty with spelling (just ask the … Continue reading →

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