Received in an email today from the BCS: I am delighted to inform you that your application for Chartered IT Professional (CITP) status has been successful.

If you are using Forms Based Authentication and try to access Site Policies you may well find that you get an Access Denied response. If you do, this post will help you! I've been meaning to post this for a while because I'm sure it may help somebody. As usual, it's been pushed back and back until now I finally have …

I know it is on his blog but Richard is an MVP, it couldn’t happen to a nicer person. I am also pleased that Kevin Ball was renewed and Andy Westgarth is also now an MVP. it was nice to see all of the above at our event today. congratulations to all the new and renewed MVP’s b.

Found out last night that I have just been made an MVP for Team System, is that cool or what!

Martin Woodward posted a few weeks ago about his build bunny. Now this is something I had tried a while ago for DDD4, but hit the same problem Martin had that the old Nabaztag API was too slow and messages could take hours to arrive, making it useless in the real world. Inspired by Martin and the new faster API I have …

For those who are interested, I am speaking on Visual Studio for Database Professionals at the Leeds SQL user group on the 16th July. This is a free event, for more details see the event web site.

I have been setting up a new Team Build server today. All our projects are being set to do code analysis (FXCop) after the build. For one project this worked on the developer PC but failed on the build machine. The CA0055 error means 'file not found' or 'could not load' the assembly to be analysed. Firstly I suspected …

I am just back from a week on the BizTalk Stand at TechED IT in Orlando, it was great to have the opportunity to chat to so many great people and to meet other BizTalkers. I was privileged to meet some great people to name but a few Mark Beckner author of the classic Apress BizTalk 2006 EDI book. Todd VanNurden co …

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 …

Good 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.