Recently I had the pleasure of speaking at EPICenter Ireland at Trinity College Dublin

This blog contains many of the links and subject information from this talk however here is a useful quick summary

Repository Database

Built on SQL Server 2008

Stores model definitions (structure)

Stores model instances (data)

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I am really pleased that I will be speaking at SQL Bits The 7 Wonders of SQL on SQL Modelling …

Earlier today I was trying to use the Outlook Social Connector for Linked-in Facebook and live but it would not display the View/People Pane

the answer was odd after ensuring the add in was selected in File/Options/Addins, I changed the registry

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It must be said that Microsoft has provided me with some of the most memorable and sometimes surreal …

The awesome team at Microsoft responsible for Kodu have now now released a new technical preview which has a load of enhancements including save and publish for games

get it here

They have also released a Classroom kit which is VERY VERY good, it would be great if there was an update for UK Teaching but I am sure they …

Well in that case the ever fantastic Eric Nelson is your man, if you join the fans of Windows Azure http://ukazure.ning.com/profiles/blogs/free-100-page-windows-azure

I am sure Eric will find it in his heart to send you the password to download this masterpiece.

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The Visualization and Modelling Feature Pack for VS2010 Ultimate is now available from here it is only available for MSDN subscribers.

The Feature pack allows you to generate code from UML class diagrams,create UML class diagrams from code,Generate dependency graphs and layer diagrams for C, and C++ projects and more. …

At TechED one of the many important announcements is the release to manufacture of Windows Server App Fabric

I will be running some events on App Fabric later in the year so keep watching.

get App Fabric from here

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