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• New book on Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 from Packt Publishing

  Recently Packt Publishing sent me a copy of ‘Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010’ by Peter Ritchie , I have to say I have rather impressed by it. My only major issue with it is that of the title, this book covers much more than the refactoring... Posted Sep 03 2010, 09:43 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Books, Opinion

• Great iPlayer Media Center Plugin

  I am very impressed with the iPlayer Media Center Plugin I found on the Australian Media Center Community , I like most people found it installed fine but that it failed to add itself to the start menu. However this was easily fixed using Media Center... Posted Aug 18 2010, 01:25 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Opinion, MCE

• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management released announced

  In the VSLive! keynote Microsoft made announcements about Lab Management, it will be RTM’d later this month and best of all it will be included as part of the benefits of the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN and Visual Studio Test Professional 2010... Posted Aug 13 2010, 10:49 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: VSTS, Opinion, Lab Management

• Once more with feeling…watching yourself on video

  I have been meaning to watch back the video taken of my recent presentation for a while. This weekend I have had the chance to sample the highlights! In the past I have always found it hard to watch myself on recordings, though after the initial cringe... Posted Jul 25 2010, 11:11 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Opinion

• BCS EGM results

  The BCS has had its EGM today and the results are out . Basically the vote is about 75% in support of the status quo, which I am not surprised by. What I am really pleased to see is that the Trustees withdrew the special resolution the change the number... Posted Jul 01 2010, 09:46 PM by Richard with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Opinion, BCS

• IDD Building a breakfast comment to a become process – now there is a leap

  Gil at Typemock has been posting about some ideas we discussed over breakfast at the Typemock Partner conference a while ago, I have been a bit slow at commenting, so I though I better add to the conversation. Though Typemock is an excellent mocking framework... Posted Jun 20 2010, 08:48 AM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Testing, Sharepoint, Opinion, Typemock

• Post NDC2010 thoughts – a great event

  What a great event the Norwegian Developers conference is. It is a nice size so there is a good selection of tracks, but no so big you feel lost, also the speakers and attendees were all mixing freely which I think always makes for a good atmosphere.... Posted Jun 20 2010, 08:33 AM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Events, Community, Opinion

• When roving what I hate most about windows mobile 6 is not knowing what connection it will try to use.

  When travelling aboard what I hate most about Windows Mobile 6 is that I have no idea if the phone is going to trying to use a local WiFi or 3G. Mobile Outlook seems the worst culprit, it loves 3G over everything else!. On mobile 6.5 there are just too... Posted Jun 17 2010, 10:50 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Opinion, Mobile

• Thoughts on the BCS EGM

  I got the paperwork for the British Computer Society EGM this week. This EGA raises some interesting issues, the best overview of the issue I have found seems to be on the Computer Weekly site . So has supporters of the EGM motion argument, led by former... Posted Jun 06 2010, 09:54 PM by Richard with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Opinion, BCS

• Great book on Kanban

  I won’t bother to repeat what Gojko has said on David J, Anderson’s book on Kanban , other than to say I agree wholeheartedly. I too have been looking for a good introduction book on Kanban as applied to software development (so K anban as opposed to... Posted May 29 2010, 10:45 AM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Books, Agile, Opinion, Kanban

• More on my Vodafone 403 errors – an explanation at least

  The next chapter of the ongoing saga . I had the 403 errors again today when using my phone as a modem to test out firewall. As I was in the office I had time to call Vodafone support. As expect I had to speak to a succession of people: Person 1 – call... Posted May 21 2010, 10:51 AM by Richard with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technical Tips, Opinion

• Looking for a good overview of Visual Studio 2010 and ALM?

  Visual Studio 2010 provides many new features to aid Application Lifecycle Management. Learning its capabilities can be a bit daunting, especially if you are new to Team Foundation Server. So enter the new book ‘ Professional Application Lifecycle Management... Posted May 17 2010, 08:09 PM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Books, VSTS, Opinion

• Stupid support suggestions from Vodafone about 403 server proxy errors

  A while ago I blogged about the problems I was having with 403 error when trying to use my HTC phone as a 3G modem or using Opera or IE on the phone itself . When I initially complained Vodafone refunded my data fee for the month and said engineers were... Posted May 13 2010, 08:45 PM by Richard with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Opinion

• My article on Typemock Insider Blog

  I have an article posted on the Typemock Insider blog about the Typemock Academy I attended. Posted May 11 2010, 10:32 AM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Opinion, Typemock

• Post AIC 2010 Thoughts

  I was at the AIC 2010 conference yesterday , which I enjoyed more than last year . The most interesting session was Ivar Jacobson . He discussed how immature our industry is, with its disjoint between software engineers and academic computer scientists... Posted Apr 01 2010, 06:52 PM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Opinion, Software Craftsmanship, AIC