Yesterday was the ever great DDDNorth. Huge thanks to everybody who came,helped, spoke and organised a great event, what a great bunch of people.

I must also thank the University of Leeds for their support in providing accommodation for the event.

A greater bunch of people where the self selecting bunch who came to …

While I have been pootling about updating machines at home I received an  Error: 0x80070070 for _KB2919355 patch. After some digging the problem and a bit of trial and error was the need for 4.5 Gb of free space to be available which on some of our smaller tablets was a challenge.

But simple enough, clear the space and …

Day one at Build brought a lot of anticipated announcements with a great mix of surprises and totally awesome demo’s.

The main overall push was the One Microsoft, in essence Microsoft has managed to bring all of their eco-systems into sync, the bottom line developer code can be used and reused across Windows 8, Windows …

Just been renewed as an MVP once again!

Great way start Build :)

I am pleased to announce details of the Black Marble Virtual Pet Sanctuary!

It has been estimated that in the EU alone over 2.1 billion virtual pets/avatars or other cyber creatures, are rotting away due to neglect.

Soon to be enacted EU Regulations, the European Virtual Pet Law (2014) about the long term treatment and …

The good people over at SyncFusion have taken it upon themselves to provide the Microsoft development community with a great set of books to bootstrap you into different Microsoft development technologies.

To find these little gems head over to http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks

you have to register …

With the interesting move for compilers to become services, it is a natural and welcome follow on that F# is now available as a compiler as a service.

The Package contains

• F# Language tokenizer – tokenizer service
• Processing untyped AST service
• Using editor (IDE) services – components needed to build an IDE
• Hosted F# …

A nice surprise today the Nokia Black update appeared on my Nokia 1020. The update brings some great new features but also a hidden fix for those of us running the GDR3 developer preview which now allows correct use of the PlayTo feature.

Updated Nokia Glance

Glance now includes other notifications from apps similar to …

In a wrap from last year I am posting some summary's of key information from the last few months that people may have missed.

Since the Windows Phone team made the update 3 available to developers there is now a new set of Images for Update 3

These images allows you to test on Update 3 at the same resolutions as Update …

It is that time of year, our Annual Tech Update is upon us.

if you are an IT manager or IT pro come to the morning and find out what happened in 2013 and see a roadmap for all Microsoft Technologies for 2014 from Windows to SharePoint, from SQL Server to Azure

register here Tech Update for Microsoft Technologies for …