During conversations over the last few months with people about ESB , SOA and BizTalk. It became quite apparent that there was information on the subject for people who knew what all the TLA's were but no first step primer, so Wrox press commissioned me to produce an E-Brief to help IT managers , Architects and …

I have just had it confirmed that I will be talking with Mat at the Irish Web Developers Conference in Dublin at the end of the month on Live Labs Volta. if you want to know more about Live Labs Volta come to the session. b. Technorati tags: Irish Web Developers Confererence, Volta, Live Labs

Our January Event with Ed Gibson ( Microsoft UK's chief security advisor ) went really well and everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Ed has a very specific set of ideas he is keen to share , one of them is that all parents should spend 10 minutes speaking to the little people ( children) and I agree , I also know …

The big Microsoft launch is nearly upon us , Windows Server 2008 , Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. We have run Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 events in the last 6 months to get everybody up to speed and ready to go , but we haven't run a specific visual studio event. If all goes well over the next day …

Well Vista is one and what an un remarkable year , not many patches , no problems with hardware , no problems with wireless networking. While it may lead you to think that there is nothing to celebrate , I think not , it just works. bar my hate hate relationship with UAC kindly telling me it is turned off , I like …

Microsoft released an hotfix rollup which solves a lot of performance and usability issues. you can find the link along with the rest of my Visual Studio 2008 master links list here b. Technorati tags: Visual Studio 2008, Hotfix

One of the most important toys of our time has turned 50 , I am a huge fan of learning and development tools and Lego is one of the greatest out there. There isn't a Christmas or Birthday that I don't provide the mandatory educational ;) set of Lego to some random child/niece/nephew or developer. GizModo has a cool …

It looks like the Black Marble Web Site is a bit of a disaster today, I am sure it will be fine by tomorrow. I guess this is what the web is all about, but there are limits ;) b. Technorati tags: Web Site, Disaster, Netdisaster

It has come to the point when I have to explain that facts of life to my youngest daughter , luckily Microsoft have come to the rescue with a rather useful book to help explain the issues at hand. It is only available online but do hope they do a print run of this deeply educational book. b. Technorati tags: Home …

if you are out and about and need a WiFi to GPRS router look here b. Technorati tags: WIFI routing GPRS