If you are in Newcastle on the evening of the 22nd I will be speaking at Vbug on Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition. Hope to see you there.

Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting is on the 13th May where Ralph Williams will be talking about Exploratory Testing, the session outline sound interesting.

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the Alt.net ‘In the North’ conference today; and also to our sponsors. The event could not happened without you all. As promised here is the list of blogs, books etc. we had on the whiteboard. **Books **Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile …

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Alt.Net ‘in the North’ over the next two days. If you cannot make the planning session tonight, but are in Bradford later, we will be in the Titus Salt Pub for a few drinks sponsored by SEED software. We will probably be upstairs from about 8:30pm Technorati Tags: altnetuk

Microsoft Press have just announced that they have made some books available for free during April Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! b.

I have been working on some automated build and testing for a project based on the Microsoft MVC framework. The build was working fine, and test were being run, but I was not seeing any code coverage data in the build summary in Visual Studio for the builds done by the Team Build box. However if I ran the test suite …

I spent too much of my misspent youth looking into optimization techniques and scheduling problems and I would always come up against computationally intractable solutions and then looking for a more practical solution. I think that these experiences have made me the pragmatist I am today (best effort is better than …

I got round to listening to the latest Radio TFS podcast today whist out for a run, Adopting Team System with Steve Borg. If you are looking at adopting TFS or even just critically looking at your development life cycle with a view to improving (irrespective of the tools you use), then this podcast is well worth the …

Updated 12 June 2009 - I have been having problems using this technique of Typemock with Sharepoint Workflows, the workflows keep unexpectedly idling as opposed to activating. If you suffer similar problem please check for later posts as to any solutions I find. Now I can test a basic workflow it soon becomes obvious …

At my session at SQLBits IV on Visual Studio 2008 DBPro GDR it was mentioned that there was a major patch just about to be released to address some known issues. Well Brian Harry has provided links to the release of the release candidate of the GDR QFE