I have been on holiday for a week and I see that registration for DDD6 has opened and closed - good job my session was voted onto the agenda else I would not be going.

Thanks to anyone who voted for my session, see you there.

I see Bradford, where the Black Marble offices are, has been ranked the greenest city in the UK. Strange that at the technology centre we are in there is no recycling at all, not for paper, cans or plastic.

We have asked if such a service can be laid on (developers drink a lot of can of coke), but were told that …

Craig Murphy has just posted a podcast we did at SQLBits last weekend.

Enjoy............

The voting for DDD6 is now open - as I always say vote early vote often.

I hope my submission of a proposal for a session on Scrum is of interest. I know I have had feedback on my previous sessions that people want to know more on this area.

Also saw today on Colin Angus Mackey's blog that DDD7 DDD Scotland will be in …

Last night went to an excellent free meeting at the Yorkshire Extreme programming Club given by Clarke Ching entitled :

Programmers may be from Mars, Customers may be from Venus ...
but why does everyone think that Project Managers are from Uranus?

From the title I was unsure of the content, other than it would be …

Well it can be told I have been offered a speaking place at TechED Barcelona, I am very chuffed. I am presenting with Ewan Fairweather who is a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft on Implementing ESB using the Microsoft best practices. It looks, even though I say so myself to be a great talk.

if you are at TechED 2007 …

I had been quietly predicting that visual studio 2008 would be available around the time of TechED 2007 Barcelona ( 5th-9th November ). But today a patch for Beta 2 has been released which would suggest otherwise The Patch covers faults with C# and intelisense.

Update: Having run the update on some machines it is …