Are you seeing the error "Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version" on the BBC web site or on YouTube "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player"? I have been on my Dell Mini; I …

You can’t say that things never change. I nipped out to Tesco last night for a few bits of shopping – you know, some beer, spices for cooking, etc – and came back with an Acer Aspire One. As you do… To be fair, I have been looking at them closely, and Tesco are by far the cheapest place to get one. I picked up the 1Gb …

I posted a while ago on wiring in Fitness.Net into a unit test framework using HTML files to hold the tests. Well I have been using the technique for some workflow acceptance testing and hit a couple of gotta’s that are easy to forget: Make sure the HTML files containing the user story tests are set to copy to the …

It is getting to that conference time of year again; I can’t believe the PDC is only 3 weeks away, then VBug the next week and DDD7 just after that. A bit closer to home there are some free events coming up this month: XPClub - October Meeting: "Agile Narrative" by Nick McKenna, Wednesday, 8th October, 7pm for 7:30pm …

I posted about the problems of using Blend with source control, specifically TFS. Well the next version of TFS Power tools gives a partial answer. They are to include Windows Shell Extensions so at least the check-in/out process can be managed would having another application open other than an explorer windows. Well …

As we move into the SOA world workflows will become more common and so the need to test them will increase. If we take the most simplistic view these are a sets if statements and loops so should be amenable to automated testing and TDD. However you have to careful how you try to do this, it is too easy to forget that …

The one major thing that I did not like with my Dell Mini was the fact it had installed XP Home. My main grip with this was the fact my main user account had to be an admin user, and I could not login as a user called administrator unless in safe mode. So I decided to do an in place upgrade to XP Professional (which …

WOW, I was expecting this in a few weeks but Microsoft have just announced that .NET 4.0 will include new versions of WCF and WF , with new stateful and conversational services and significantly improved designers. The new version of WF includes a 10 times performance increase , new flow control models including a …

Two weeks ago I was delighted to be at ReMix in Brighton. On the last day I was asked to be a Judge in the finals of Speaker Idol. The speakers did a great job in entertaining and informing the attendees , taking there own valuable time at the conference to share more information with others. One chap presented on RGB …

Colour me impressed. I managed well over four hours’ battery life today and found the Mini 9 a joy to use. I have encountered a snag, however, and it wasn’t one that I expected. You see, I’m now sitting on the 21:30 train from London Kings Cross to Wakefield after having been in the big smoke for a day of meetings. I …