But I am now a MVP for BizTalk , Hurrah. My thanks for the support the VS team has given me in the last year and I look forward to working with the BizTalk chaps and chapettes over the next year even more than I have this year. Also many thanks to the MVP support team as I know due to the broad areas of the community I …

Just found out that Robert and myself are both now doing two sessions at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference next week. **Thursday **13:45 - BI in SQL 08 (Richard Fennell) 16:45 - Microsoft Volta: Next Gen .NET Client-Server Apps (Robert Hogg) **Friday **10:00 - Overview of Business Process Automation and …

With the advent of Silverlight we are going to see more and more web delivered applications. A good example of what we can expect is the Microsoft HEROES happen {here} virtual launch site. If you did not make it to the event it is well worth a look with all the slides and videos of the sessions. This site does makes …

I see there has been a release of the VSTS Scrum Process Template for VS2008 on CodePlex, so adding a way to run Scrum projects with the current release of TFS without the fiddling required for eScrum. It looks good, but is missing for me the best part of eScrum, the web site that allows quick updating of the Scrum …

Both Richard and I are presenting at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference (IMTC) 2008 on the 3rd and 4th of April l, in Dublin. Richard is presenting on BI in SQL 08 and I am presenting on Overview of Business Process Automation and implementing an Enterprise Service Bus using Microsoft BizTalk 2006. The agenda …

Richard and I headed down to Heroes Happen Here event in Birmingham in preparation for our launch events in a few weeks time. Due to external pressures and Richards driving ( he won't spring for a helicopter ) we didn't arrive until a bit after the event had started ( I know , I thought they would wait , but its ok …

if you read my post on Home Server well a video that having a server at home is not shameful ( more than 3 is though , hint Barry ) Watch the Video b.

Incase you haven't seen , Vista Service Pack 1 is out and already available from Windows Update. well I am five machines through and not a hitch. Service Pack 1 adds more than fixes , it offers significant performance and reliability improvements. it also adds a set of general improvements which I don't think are well …

Join the surreal world of Barry Dorrans on DNR - if you listen long enough you could even hear something about Cardspace.

if you have listened to me talk about code quality and engaging with developers about the need to produce quality code from the get-go, you will not be surprised at the deep pleasure that a new release of FxCop brings to me. if you haven't had the pleasure of such a gripping conversation ( or rant as most people would …