Anybody who has met me knows how passionate I am about teaching people to program and getting them to use their minds, Well Microsoft has excelled themselves , Any student in higher education can get Visual Studio Pro 2008 , SQL Server 2005 , Expression Studio , Windows Server 2003 (Not sure on this one , but hey why …

The agenda has been published for **DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Day - Ireland ** which is being held on the Saturday May 3rd 2008 in Galway. I can't make it to the event, but it does look well worth the trip. Keep an on on the conference web site RSS feed to see when registration opens.

Everyday I wake up, I love the world we all live in even more , Technology marches on giving us the vital tools we have needed since the 1970's. Until today I wasn't looking for a new car but come to think of it although I have a newish car I feel the desperate need for a new one and a safari suit , curious. b. …

You have all these books to put on a shelf and as you put one on at one end another one falls off at the other. You just can't get them all on at the same time. What do I mean by this? Sharepoint has many features and with these come limitations due to the way features have been implemented. I am repeatedly finding …

A new release of the Power Tools for the Database Edition to work with Visual Studio 2008 adds several new features a new set custom unit test conditions a new Data Generation Wizard MSBuild tasks to support running TSQL Static Code Analysis from the command line,Schema and Data Compare and a TSQL Static Code Analysis …

Thanks to Colin Mackay for organising the Scottish Developers event in Glasgow last night; as promised I have uploaded the slide on TFS that I presented. I am already looking forward to seeing everyone again at Developer Day Scotland which is also being held in Glasgow at the Caledonian University.

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Fresh and hot foot from the Office Dev conference the first of the Software + Services Blueprints is out. It looks like there are more blueprints on the way , the first one is using Outlook to be a S + S client. The experience is much like Glide which as it looks like the PM is Michael Lehman it is not surprising. If …

I am not suggesting that we cross to border to crush any impending revolt ( but now that I think of it ;) ) , Nope it's Developer Developer Scotland , the first of the Developer Developer events to happen in the North is underway with a great set of sessions to choose from, DDS will be help in Glasgow on Saturday 10th …

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