I said I'd post again once I'd had the Diamond a little while. It's now been two weeks and I can honestly say I'm completely happy with it. Battery life for me is fine - I charge it about every three days and it chugs along with exchange push pretty much constantly. I am quite comfortable with the soft keyboard and I …

Update 29 Mar 2010 - See this post for some updated usage notes I have been looking at Fitnesse.NET for a while; if you have not come across this testing tool I cannot recommend Gojko Adzic book highly enough; an excellent real world introduction to Fitnesse.NET. For me, the problem with Fitnesse is that it's WIKI …

I see that the registration (and hence session voting) has opened for the free community conference SQLBits III, I can't make it as it is the same day as Alt.Net. However, I really do recommend this event if you ever work with data (some of you do that don't you?)

The July edition of the Team System power tools have just been released. To pick out just one of a great set of tools - have a look at the Alert Editor, a really easy way to wire up external events handler to do things when TFS events occur.

Thanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event. The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site

I posted last week about a couple of issues we were experiencing with SharePoint. I made some traction on the Workflow History issue at the end of last week and the revelation was pretty far-reaching, so I'm posting again. It turns out that the stuff I said about systemupdate was wrong... up to a point. There is a bug …

In my last post about the Diamond I said I would let you know what the battery life is. I therefore carefully refrained from giving it any charge over the weekend, even when connected to my PC. That means that it received no power from 5.30pm on Friday until it died (which it did, eventually). After that time, exchange …

Richard's little mobile blogging app is nice, but he isn't that responsive to user requests (ie, mine!) so I thought I would see if anything else was out there. Sadly, the answer appears to be 'not really' However, I did come across Diarist, from Kevin Daly. Perhaps not surprisingly I am using it now. I must say that …

That might sound like a strange thing to say, but when my shiny new Touch Diamond, which I picked up from Orange this week, has no Orange branding or customisation of the UI. I hadn't really noticed that until I went into the manual, where the screenshots are totally different from my phone. I was beginning to wonder …

The Alt.net summer conference is now full after about 24 hours and that is with a larger capacity venue than the last one. Told it would be fast