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Upcoming events in October

It is getting to that conference time of year again; I can’t believe the PDC is only 3 weeks away, then VBug the next week and DDD7 just after that. A bit closer to home there are some free events coming up this month: XPClub - October Meeting: "Agile Narrative" by Nick McKenna, Wednesday...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 10-04-2008
Remix UK 08 Keynote

Just seen the keynote for Remix in Brighton, I must say that Bill Buxton 's part was one of the best keynotes I have seen (watch out for the streamed webcast). For me the most important thing for a keynote is to set the tone, the meme , for the conference and his session certainly did. OK it is good...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-18-2008
Alt.net - the day after

Back home now after a excellent two days at Alt.Net in London . As with the spring conference this was a thought provoking event. I really like the whole open space format, though there were four 'main sessions' the event started the night before in the planning session and the bar and carried...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-14-2008
September XPClub Meeting is this Wednesday

The next XPClub meeting is a double bill: Code Quality and Scala + Lift . and is being held at the usual venue the Victoria Hotel Leeds . This is a free event open to all. As usual drinks and snacks thanks to the club sponsors are free, also there will be a draw for one free personal license for any...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-07-2008
Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 with SP1

Today I got round to upgrading our TFS 2008 (dual server setup) with Team Server 2008 SP1 . I tried it first on my demo VPC I use for presentations (reminder I am at VBug Coventry at the end of the talking about TFS , a free event open to all). Anyway, this update went fine and did not take too long...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-06-2008
Registration opened for SQLBits III (Cubed)

I see that the registration (and hence session voting) has opened for the free community conference SQLBits III, I can't make it as it is the same day as Alt.Net . However, I really do recommend this event if you ever work with data (some of you do that don't you?)

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-18-2008
Leeds SQL Usergroup

Thanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event. The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-17-2008
Next XP Club meeting

This months meeting of the XPClub is on Wednesday . It is a general group chat about refactoring, branching and merging. This is a free event, usually with a few free beers, at the usual time & location, 7pm at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds , so hope to see you there

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-07-2008
Speaking at Leeds SQL User group

For those who are interested, I am speaking on Visual Studio for Database Professionals at the Leeds SQL user group on the 16th July. This is a free event, f or more details see the event web site .

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 06-21-2008
XPClub Meeting about Opera

Good session at the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club last night. Chris Mills of Opera spoke on the mobile web. If this, or the general issue of standards in web development are of interest http://dev.opera.com is well worth a look.

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 06-12-2008

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