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

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 modelling I have …

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.