I've been far too busy lately and whilst there have been lots of things I wanted to post about, time has not been on my side. Before I start to forget some of the points I thought a quick post was in order. @media 2008 was great. Slides and audio are just filtering onto the blog now. A highlight for me was Indi Young's …
Read MoreGood session at the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club last night. Chris Mills of Opera spoke on the mobile web. If this, or the general issue of standards in web development are of interest http://dev.opera.com is well worth a look.
Read MoreWhen you create a build type for a team project on TFS you can enable testing using MSTest by saying 'run any tests that are found in a given DLL'. I used this today to create a CI build for a project, I am looking at using Team Build as opposed to CruiseCrontrol as we have done historically. I hit a problem that the …
Read MoreThis Wednesday, the 11th, is the rescheduled XPClub meeting 'Exploring Mobile Web Development' with Chris Mills developer relations manager for Opera This is a free event and open to all, hope to see you there.
Read MoreInteresting post from Ben Hall on the role of the tester, something I have posted on in the past. As Ben asks what are other people views?
Read MoreI have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader. It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer, phone etc.....) The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that you can buy electronic books but there are so many out of copyright …
Read MoreAs promised you can get silverlight 2.0 beta 2 here and the june preview of blend and zoom here. The SDK is available here or with the Visual Studio 2008 tools here. b.
Read MoreI like the concept of SideShow and I think one of its flaws is not enough devices NOW , they are slowly coming on stream but not quickly enough for me. So along with all of the other items arriving this week I was pleased to see this a windows mobile version of side show and I have spent the day controlling my PC from …
Read MoreI will say it now and I will say it again , Live Writer rocks. A new tech preview with some cool user features and even more developer features are available here. User Features include: Video and Image enhancements : Soapbox support , Better Image support (cropping , tilting , effects ) Editing: Word count , smart …
Read MoreI am not at TechED Dev in Orlando ( I am going to IT Pro next week , see me at the BizTalk ATE stand ), but there are some important announcements to cover off. Microsoft Project Codename “Velocity” CTP **“**Velocity” allows high availability to data by integrating Large clusters of machines _s_eamlessly into a single …
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