Welcome to andrewmclachlan.com, the home of Software Engineer and IT Consultant Andrew McLachlan.

The Carbs & Cals MVC website has gone live. Although there is little visible change to the site, it has been rebuilt from scratch using Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC Framework 3.

There are many benefis to using MVC, in particular it leads to smaller, faster-loading web pages compared to the old ASP.NET Web Forms versions and it paves the way for creating international versions of the website.

Furthermore, a new BMI and Calorie Requirement calculator is in development and will be released soon. This will tell you your body mass index (BMI) and calculate your rcommended intake of carbohydrates, calories, protein and fat based on your age, gender, activity level and desired rate of weight loss.

Since parting ways with Chello Publishing and Carbs & Cals (see below), I have resumed work on my collection of useful .NET classes, something I call ASM Library. As well as containing helper classes and extension methods typical of personal libraries, I have created classes to handle the contents of icon (.ico) files, a system for retrieving email templates using the provider model, classes for reading common video file types and a class that can read and write the Windows hosts file.

As well as the main library, I have been working on some other small projects such as .NET integration with PayPal IPN processing, a CK Editor .NET web control and a suite of classes and controls that support ASP.NET development. I have also been working on creating C# templates for Visual Studio, including Exceptions, Singletons and IDisposable.

My aim is to get the code mature enough that I can release the libraries and source code.