Well, it's just after 3pm on day one of Mix:UK 07. I'm taking a break with a coffee so I thought I'd post. It's mixed bag down here (sorry - no pun intended). The technology is fantastic - the stuff that can be achieved with WPF and Silverlight is excellent. I'm still a little uncertain that usability has been …

Today and tomorrow I am at the Mix07 conference in London which is being held at the Congress Centre, a building that I knew as the Trade Union Congress building. So given this location I expected a Harold Wilson 'beer and sandwiches' style lunch, but no it was small food (very nice tapas style dishes) and as we all …

I am speaking at the .NET User group in Bristol next week and have been putting some final touches to my demos. One thing I will be talking about is using CruiseControl with TFS. Whilst getting this running on my demo VPC I hit a problem. I did a default install of CruiseControl .Net 1.3, this was on top of a Visual …

In a recent post I discussed the feelings I had about Egg's poor telephone Security, with a follow up that in writing ( this is important to the plot ) that I thought their telephone security was poor and I wished a) to only be contacted in writing and b) close my account. With the predictability of an A-Team episode , …

I am off to loads of conferences and event in the next few week, you wait all year for one then they all come together..... Next week Mix07 - London Office Business Applications Architect Forum - London This month MSDN: Introduction to .NET Framework V3.0 - Leeds (hosted by Black Marble) Microsoft SOA and Business …

New version of LiveWriter beta is out, it adds video support (not sure yet if this feature works with Community Server). Watch out of you are installing it as it also updates other Live components such as messenger and tried to add some IE toolbars you might or might not want

I posted about the problems I had adding a user to a project TFS earlier this week. Well I have seen a similar problem again today, I added a new user to an AD group but they could not access the project until I restarted the Web Server process on my TFS front end server. I still suspect a cache problem is the root …

In a previous Post I discussed Name space collisions inside BM, I am quite upset that nobody has been paying attention to this problem and it is still getting worse. In the last week Paul hired Paul to work for him and Steve hired wait for it , Steve to work for him. if this continues , everybody will will either get …

Today I tried to add a user to an existing TFS Team project, this user had happily been working on other team projects hosted on the same same server. In theory all I had to do was add the AD user to an existing AD group that was already setup as a contributor to the team project I now wanted them to work on. However …

As any of you who are regular readers of BM-Bloggers may have noticed, our blog server structure had become a little confused over the years. We started BM-Bloggers as a single blog hosted using .Text, we then moved it to a multi blog server hosted on Community Server 2.0, then started adding other blogs and mirrors as …