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November Agile Yorkshire meeting “William Hill Agile Case Study”
Richard Fennell Nov 4, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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The title of the November Agile Yorkshire meeting (on Tuesday the 9th) is "A case study exploring how agile methodologies were used to help change the way sports are traded at William Hill forever.". As usual this is a free event and is hosted at the Old Broadcasting house in Leeds starting at 6:30pm and I am …
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Speaking at NeBytes in November on SharePoint for Content Publishing
Rik Hepworth Nov 2, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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On the 17th of November I’ll be keeping Richard company on the drive up to Newcastle to speak at the NEBytes user group. My session will be a shortened version of the Using SharePoint for Content publishing I will deliver at the Black Marble event on November 3rd. I will be showing what can be done with SharePoint 2010 …
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Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos – well it looks like fun with hindsight
Richard Fennell Oct 29, 2010 · 10 min read · Uncategorised ·
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[Updated 10 Nov 2010: Also see [More] Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos]
I have been battling some WCF authentication problems for a while now; I have been migrating our internal support desk call tracking system so that it runs as webpart hosted inside Sharepoint 2010 and uses WCF to access the backend services …

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PDC 2010 thoughts - the next morning
Richard Fennell Oct 29, 2010 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I sat in the office yesterday with a beer in my hand watching the PDC2010 keynote. I have to say I preferred this to the option of a flight, jet lag and a less than comfortable seat in a usually overly cooled conference hall. With the Silverlight streaming the experience was excellent, especially as we connected an …
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Common confusion I have seen with Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
Richard Fennell Oct 25, 2010 · 7 min read · Uncategorised ·
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With any new product there can be some confusion over the exact range and scope of features, this is just as true for VS2010 Lab Management as any other. In fact given the number of moving parts (infrastructure you need in place to get it running) it can be more confusing than average. In this post I will cover the …
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First look at Postsharp AOP framework for .NET
Richard Fennell Oct 25, 2010 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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At the Software Craftsmanship 2010 conference I met Gael Fraiteur of Sharpcrafters, he had given a talk on Aspect Oriented Programming AOP.Since the conference I have had a chance to look at his Postsharp AOP product for .NET.
I decided to do a quick spike project for a tender I have been working on, the requirement is …

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First look at Postsharp AOP framework for .NET
Richard Fennell Oct 25, 2010 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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At the Software Craftsmanship 2010 conference I met Gael Fraiteur of Sharpcrafters, he had given a talk on Aspect Oriented Programming AOP.Since the conference I have had a chance to look at his Postsharp AOP product for .NET.
I decided to do a quick spike project for a tender I have been working on, the requirement is …

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Typemock Isolator++ Video
Richard Fennell Oct 25, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I mentioned at the Developer Group meeting I was speaking at last week at the Typemock had a new C++ version of their product. They have now published the video of their webinar on this product.
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Video interviews from Software Craftsman 2010
Richard Fennell Oct 22, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Gael Fraiteur of Sharpcrafters recorded some interviews at the Software Craftsmen conference a couple of weeks ago. The interviewees include Ben Hall, Jason Gorman, Sandro Mancuso, Zi Makki and myself. They are all up on Youtube
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Living with the Acer Aspire 1420P
Rik Hepworth Oct 22, 2010 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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This blog has been a very quiet place for a long time now, reflecting somewhat how busy I have been elsewhere. During this period of heavy work I have found a new friend in my Aspire 1420Tp In some ways it’s sad – my trusty and reliable Dell Mini 9 has been neglected in favour of a younger, sexier model.

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