Ola! Andy and I are now in sunny Espana. Only it's not sunny. Oh well... However, true to form we started our trip, having registered at the conference centre, by eating hot dogs in a german fast food joint in a Spanish shopping centre! If you're passing, Kurz & Gut does pretty good food.
I'm also extremely …
Read MoreDeveloper Express and Microsoft now are shipping a limited free copy version of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro. The free edition is available for C# developers using Visual Studio 2008.
A list of features :
- Find any File or Symbol...
- Tab to Next Reference
- Expand/Shrink Selection
- Intelligent Declaration Based on Usage …
Read MoreThe P&P team have released the Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance Guidance book. The guide is designed to help groups meet customers expectations of delivery.
- How to Plan for Acceptance Testing
- What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run
- How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests
- Defining What “Done” Means ( this is the …
Read MoreSo back home now after a reasonable journey back from LA all things considered; so I have had a bit of time to reflect, was the PDC good?
Well I think I enjoyed my previous PDC in 2005 more, your first time always sticks in your memory. I think that this might be due to the fact that at the 2005 PDC LINQ was announced …
Read MoreWhile I was at the PDC I missed the announcement that the release candidate for Database Edition was made, I was not following blogs too much. You can find all the download links for the RTM at Gert Drapers Blog, you can also see his PDC session where he made the announcement.
Why did I miss the session you might ask? …
Read More- The keynote today was all about MSR, interesting as ever. I particularly liked the demos of Second Light (Surface computing that reaches beyond the surface of the physical pc) and Boku (a system to help children program). The latter is close to our hearts at Black Marble due to the work we have done on FPL, another …
Read More - Well it was all end user focused today; Windows 7 and experience in Live systems. All looks very nice, given the usually question you have to raise in a connected environment over personal data security. I am sure Microsoft have done a good job of physical and logical data security, but the whole concept of mesh …
Read More It has been a while but I knew a conference would turn up some good buzzwords
Meshify – to add Live mesh functions to a site
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