I have just heard my proposed session for the SQLBits conference has been accepted. I will be talking on Unit Testing in SQL Server my proposal was:
Test driven development is one of the current hot topics in software development, but how far can these principles be applied in the world of SQL? In this session I will …
Read MoreWe're back up north after Mix:UK 07 and I thought I'd follow up my earlier post with a few thoughts on the event and it's content.
Before I do that, however, I need to give a cheer for our guys: Jonny performed incredibly in the Guiter Hero competition to be triumphant in front of his screaming supporters, and Sam, …
Read More- See I was right, in my post yesterday I said the key role missing in most WPF projects was the 'designer who can cut code' or 'coder with a design eye', the session Silverlight, WPF, Expression design projects - where do we get started today was on just this subject Paul Dawson and Robby Ingebretsen discussed the need …
Read More So we reach the end of the first day of Mix07 London, what are my thoughts? Well the conference, as conference go, is well organized and I can have no complaint over the quality of the sessions or presenters.
Has it changed how I think about Silverlight? Well I have realised that 1.0 is a very different product to 1.1. …
Read MoreWell, 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 …
Read More- 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 …
Read More 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 …
Read More- 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 , …
Read More 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 …
Read MoreNew 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
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