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Podcasting from the PDC
Now showing on Channel9 - Richard's Podcast from the PDC! On Site at PDC...with Richard Fennell

Posted 03 October 2005 16:59 by admin

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Another way to automate the application
Just been to the panel 'CLR Leveraging Dynamic Features' and seen IronPython demo'ed to control a VB.NET application. It was used to load the assembly, create the form, and allowed the triggering of events, but better still allowed the dynamic creation...

Posted 16 September 2005 02:30 by admin | 2 comment(s)

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Channel 9 Sparks Feeding Frenzy!
Channel 9 were giving away 1600 t-shirts in 21 minutes - there was a feeding frenzy and the sharks were on the floor. Funniest thing I've seen in a long time. PDC05

Posted 15 September 2005 22:07 by admin

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Richard's Day 2 Keynote thought
Just a quick one here, WE HAVE SO MANY OPTIONS!!!!!!! I see the short term issue for many prople will be which technology is best, do I go BizTalk now, grow something in house or wait a while for Windows Workflow Foundations. My feeling is that WWF is...

Posted 14 September 2005 20:07 by admin

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Vista Automated Testing - Do we need trained pigeons?
Just been to the Windows Vista: Developing for Test Automation and Accessibility Using Programmatic Access to UI session by Thomas Logan, this is very interesting given the bits I have done over the past year on UI testing. The UI Spy tool and associated...

Posted 14 September 2005 19:55 by admin | 1 comment(s)

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Richard's first thoughts at the PDC
I have wandered round after the PDC keynoted confused; before I came here I thought I had a plan on what to concentrate on but after the keynote all that went out the window! I am at a loss as to which session to go to as there is so many wildly different...

Posted 14 September 2005 00:24 by admin

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Meeting the Channel 9ers
A great evening. We went for pizza and met irascian who was most interesting to chat to, and a Microsoft 9er (2nd from left in picture) who did the channel9 redesign, I think his name is Adam Kinney. Met Scoble, and stayed for a very interesting discussion...

Posted 12 September 2005 08:31 by admin

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Registering and meeting '9'
Richard and I registered today. Saw the "Big Room" which is the name for the aircraft hangar where commnet, hol, and the channel 9 sit down is all happening. Posted a couple of pics to the Channel 9 website, of me and Richard with the 9 guy and Richard...

Posted 11 September 2005 20:18 by admin

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Black Marble at the PDC
Black Marble is at the PDC in LA! Robert and Richard have touched down and are ready to go! PDC05

Posted 11 September 2005 12:18 by admin

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Microsoft PDC
Robert and myself are off to the PDC in LA next week, get in touch if you want to meet up. Richard

Posted 05 September 2005 21:34 by admin

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