Thanks to Kimberly Tripp for pointing this out. Always nice to have the latest version of the SQL Server books online and the link below allows a "live" search format for accessing content. Using IE7 you can also add the online books as a search provider. SQL Server Books Online Scoped Search

Well , I could not have predicted the last week. A great event on Thursday on Sharepoint , hot foot to the train station on the way to see my students compete in the UK Imagine cup. But I was in Linda's car and the Cam shaft decided to make a break for it out of the top of the engine. Thanks to the lovely AA I still …

First a criticism of Microsoft , why oh why oh why do Microsoft send out the notifications about the MVP awards on April fools day. It's not like I would suspect foul play from the guys in the office but .... More importantly a heap of thanks to the nice people at Microsoft for awarding me an MVP and even more thanks …

More detail will follow, but great news just in from Reading! The Seedlings, a team of students from Hull University, mentored by Black Marble's Robert Hogg, have just won the UK leg of the Imagine Cup, and are on their way to Korea later in the year! The entry, a program to teach children to progam, MyFPL (My First …

I have just been watching the Tech Fest 07 Keynote with my eldest daughter and Microsoft Research has been doing some really cool things. The world wide telescope was noted with some interest and I suspect we will be looking at it further. I could be wrong but it looks like our old friend Robert Scoble 33:16 into the …

Black Marble has standardised on Acer for our notebooks and in general we have been very very pleased. They are powerful , cost effective and nice to use. The only problem that has occurred in the last few months is that my 8200 ( 8204 ) had a cosmetic fault ( the lid had delaminated ) , this was dealt with quite …

Until recently there has been little or no information about Orcas unless you are actively looking , what has been noticeable over the last few weeks is that the DPE crowd at Microsoft in the UK and PM's from corp have been blogging more and more prolifically. Last month is did a brief overview of Orcas and the rest of …

For a long time ( my time with XP ) , I have used Baden Slick Run to run commands using the keyboard. For those not familiar with Slick Run you set it up point at application assign a quick name and when you press the windows key + Q , type the quick name and the app starts ( with all appropriate command line params as …

The .NET micro framework is now available .NET Microframework , the MF adds a new project type to Visual Studio. the first thing I noticed is that the name space for the libraries is Microsoft.SPOT , SPOT was the original name of the MF. I would expect this to change before release. I think any desktop developer and …

I have been spelunking through a pile of documentation on Sharepoint and came across a comment that people who follow the priciples of REST (Representational State Transfer) are referred to as RESTful or for the more extreem RESTafarians. As this seems to be the case I wonder if someone who advoates SOAP is SOAPful or …