Thanks to the advanced notice from Tracy and Matt's blog, I picked up my HTC Touch Diamond yesterday from the Orange Store and it's great! 'But wait!' I hear you cry, 'didn't he go on about the experia x1 and how he wanted one?' Well, yes, I did. I admit it - I am fickle in my affections.Since I wrote that post, I have …

Registration has opened for the Alt.UK Summer conference. If the first UK Alt.net conference event is anything to go by it will fill up fast, so don't hang around if you are interested

I was trying to publish a .NET 3.5 WCF service to a network share e.g. \myserversharefolder_to_holdservice and got the error "The specified file could not be encrypted" for all the files. I changed to a publish to the local disk it published fine, so what caused that? As part of some security impact …

This months meeting of the XPClub is on Wednesday. It is a general group chat about refactoring, branching and merging. This is a free event, usually with a few free beers, at the usual time & location, 7pm at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds, so hope to see you there

I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success, but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written. Historically we have used our own home grown call tracking …

I need to update something like 300 web.config files today, with the same change in each. I turned to my old friend Google for his recommendations and up popped a magnificent free tool from Nodesoft. Why magnificent? It's advanced mode allows you to specify start and end tags and update everything in between. That's …

Well done Richard, who has been given the accolade of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual Studio Team System.

When trying to view an item in a list which has workflows run against it, you get an error: Some part of your SQL statement is nested too deeply. Rewrite the query or break it up into smaller queries Problem Background Trying to explain the exact nature of our configuration in this case would break many people's heads. …

It really good to see so many submissions for the DDD7, and many new names, always a good sign of a the community working well. I just got round to putting one in myself on integrating testing into MSBuild. There is still time for more though. So have a think and put in a session proposal - trust me it is great fun.

You may have noticed that I have disabled comments on my old posts. You may also have noticed that I have now disabled the Contact Me function on my blog. Why? Comment spam, and more recently, a huge influx of spam via the contact form. I will try to find a solution via some kind of community server plugin. In the …