I am a big fan of virtualisation and it as a concept has changed development practices so I am pleased that Virtual PC 2007 is out and FREE , get it and install it. Virtual PC 2007 32/64 bit enjoy b.

Yesterday Rob Miles of Hull University gave his very interesting presentation on XNA and the Future of Game Development - Rob Miles as the community part of our day of events in Leeds. All the samples and demo's Rob used can be found on his Blog, the XNA specific area is http://www.robmiles.com/xna. This is also a …

Black Marble are pleased to be hosting this evening event on 31 January. XNA represents a major milestone in the field of game development,bringing game creators a unified platform and the safety of managedcode. It also greatly reduces the difficulties faced when starting outin game development, closing the gap between …

Our annual Technical Update events are running on January 31 but this time, our Technical Update for Developers is changing ... it is now including Martin Parry, a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. The Developer Evangelists for Microsoft are taking the developer launch for Office 2007 and Vista on the road in the …

NxtGenUG and Dinis Cruz are running 2 day residential courses on Advanced ASP.NET Security training including such topics as Security Principles, .NET Framework Architecture, Threat Modeling, Discovering Vulnerabilities, Penetration Testing Techniques and Secure Coding Techniques. Those of you who attended the Ed …

I have been fiddling a bit more on my Vista media center PC and I thought I had a solution to the sleep issues I previously posted about USB Power Asus (and I think many other brands of motherboard) default the USB ports to have no power during S3 sleep mode - to save power. This means that you cannot use a USB device …

In my last post I covered my woes with my upgrade from XP MCE to Vista Ultimate. Well here is an update...... TV After contacting Hauppauge I could not get a date for a HVR 1100 Vista driver. I managed to wait a week with my reduced set of digital channels (less than on analogue!) but could not put up with it any …

I have posted in the past on getting my XP Media Center PC running - not really a product for the novice. So it was with high hopes I decided to upgraded to Vista - Media Center functionality is now standard, it must be easier! The initial update was fine, I ran the upgrade advisor and it told me to remove Nero and …

I am now a certified Scrum Master having completed a course with Mike Cohn in London. I have read about Scrum a good deal in the past, and it turns out I had not been that wrong in the way I had tried to implement it. So was it a good course, I certainly think so, Mike leads the class well. As with most project …

This is the first time I have got Internet access since DDD4 on Saturday. You can now get my DDD4 slides about continuous integration. I have edited them a bit from the version I used at the weekend, as the session was very demo lead I have dropped in main configuration samples I used as slide notes. I hope they are …