I am sitting on the train heading north. After deciding trying to stream the England/Wales match from iPlayer on the train WiFi was probably not a good idea, especially after just reading the score, I though I should write about the Alt.Net UK Conference; a very interesting experience. It is great to meet so many …

It seems there are still some places left for SQLBits II in Birmingham on the 1st of March. If you want to go I suggest you register fast as these community events do fill up fast.

I enjoyed presenting on TFS at the inaugural meeting of the Peterborough VBug group last night. Thanks to Jyoti Majithia (VBug regional administrator) and Andy Westgarth (VBug chairman) for organising it. Hopefully this will be the start of another thriving user group community. If anyone wants a copy of the slide …

One of the most important toys of our time has turned 50 , I am a huge fan of learning and development tools and Lego is one of the greatest out there. There isn't a Christmas or Birthday that I don't provide the mandatory educational ;) set of Lego to some random child/niece/nephew or developer. GizModo has a cool …

It looks like the Black Marble Web Site is a bit of a disaster today, I am sure it will be fine by tomorrow. I guess this is what the web is all about, but there are limits ;) b. Technorati tags: Web Site, Disaster, Netdisaster

A while ago I made the classic mistake of installing the Beta2 of TFS on our live servers after seeing posts that it was reliable enough for production use. I had stupidly assumed that there would be an upgrade path to the RTM; there usually is from the last beta, but not this time. TIP: Don't ever do this yourself, …

Just heard my session Development Life Cycle using Visual Studio Team Edition for DB Professionals has been accepted for SQLBits II on the 1st of March in Birmingham. Thanks to everyone who voted for it, and I hope to see you there. 

I have been debugging some SharePoint 2007 webparts and have had to resort to TRACE output and the SysInternal DebugView; it is like ASP pages in the 90s all over again! Anyway had a weird problem that only alternate TRACE.WriteLine commands were appearing in the view. I have not found a reason why or a solution as …

It has come to the point when I have to explain that facts of life to my youngest daughter , luckily Microsoft have come to the rescue with a rather useful book to help explain the issues at hand. It is only available online but do hope they do a print run of this deeply educational book. b. Technorati tags: Home …

If you run the 2008 Power Tools BPA against a TFS 2008 install that has the 2005 Team Explorer also installed on it you will get virtually no reports generated. It runs to completion but the reports are empty. This is due to some clash between the BPA and the TFS 2005 DLLs (V8.0). Removed the 2005 Team Explorer and it …