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Bug tracking with TFS
06 July 08 11:37 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success , but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written...

Filed under: VSTS, Sharepoint, Opinion

Go south young man.......and read a book on a SmartPhone
09 June 08 09:23 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader . It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer , phone etc.....) The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that...

Filed under: Books, Opinion, Mobile

and another point...
28 May 08 02:44 PM | Richard | with no comments

I forgot to say in the last post the thing I noticed most about Spain - the quality of the roads and the courtesy of the drivers. Both excellent. As a cyclist in the UK I am used to pot-holes and being cut up all the time. None of this is Spain, drivers...

Filed under: Opinion, Triathlon

Why aren't there more plays about quantum physics?
04 May 08 08:36 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

Saw an excellent play last night, Hapgood at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. For those who have no heard if it, it is a Tom Stoppard play about spies and physics set in the late 80s. I know of two plays that take their theme from quantum uncertainly, this...

Filed under: Books, Opinion, Plays

I want a TFS 64bit API
29 April 08 02:26 PM | Richard | with no comments

The lack of 64Bit TFS API DLLs is becoming a real pain for me. We have committed to a 64Bit server architecture for all our IIS and hence MOSS servers; both of these seem unable to WOW64 the 32bit TFS DLLs (though Cassini can!) so I cannot load any web...

Filed under: VSTS, Opinion

New style web applications
26 March 08 08:51 PM | Richard | with no comments

With the advent of Silverlight we are going to see more and more web delivered applications. A good example of what we can expect is the Microsoft HEROES happen {here} virtual launch site. If you did not make it to the event it is well worth a look with...

Filed under: Silverlight, Opinion

After months on backorder my HTC Cruise arrives, was it worth the wait?
11 March 08 12:15 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

What seems many months ago I ordered an HTC Cruise from Expansys . My old QTEK S100 was literally falling apart. The new phone was supposedly on 4 day delivery, well it took best part of 4 months to arrive (don't you just hate online stock levels...

Filed under: Opinion

Last night I met a spaceman
06 December 07 09:21 AM | Richard | with no comments

Last night I went to a lecture by Dr Alexander Martynov and Colonel Alexander Volkov organised by Space Connections on the Russian space efforts in both the Soviet and current era. The thing that struck me was the often spoken of different between the...

Filed under: Agile, Weird Stuff, Opinion