I am now a certified Scrum Master having completed a course with Mike Cohn in London. I have read about Scrum a good deal in the past, and it turns out I had not been that wrong in the way I had tried to implement it. So was it a good course, I certainly think so, Mike leads the class well. As with most project …

This is the first time I have got Internet access since DDD4 on Saturday. You can now get my DDD4 slides about continuous integration. I have edited them a bit from the version I used at the weekend, as the session was very demo lead I have dropped in main configuration samples I used as slide notes. I hope they are …

I am convinced that the TFS install has an hidden registry entry that counts the number of time you try to install it, only allowing success after some random number has been reached. The number of blog post you see around the ' I tried and tried and on my X attempt it work". The problem is you seem to have to …

If you are publishing an application with ClickOnce you may not have the final URL for the deployment site e.g. you are planning to use www.myapp.com but you have no access now, this happens to us quite oftan as a software house when we are developing something that will be deployed with ClickOnce within a client's …

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LOM I've been working hard lately on Black Marble's infrastructure. To support the various software technologies we run and would like to run there are now three shiny Sun X2100 servers sitting in our rack. Sun hardware is great - it's robust, reliable and well built. It's …

So what are my final thoughts on TechEd developer 2006? Well I think the split of Developers from IT Pros works. In my opinion this is the best TechEd I have been to from a content quality and relevance point of view, in the past there have been too many sessions on IT Support issues. Also it is good to be back in …

it is now the time that Geek's start their migration away from their temporary home , back to their regular nesting locations. I think watching the migrating geek is fascinating and I have been following this timid species for several days and here are my findings. The natural instinct of the geek is to flock in a …

During dinner several of us were discussing the shortfalls and successes of the TechED so far. Successes Great speakers , good content , well delivered. Which when all considered is all that is needed. however Shortfalls Perceivable lack of Theme , each talk has been categorized and I do say perceived , as a chat to …

As all of the developer community knows , developers live on caffeine and freebies , for example a .NET 3.0 FX T-Shirt can keep a developer alive for over 2 weeks , a hat and pen will keep a developer going for over a week, and a rucksack or Jacket for several months. TechED has been a bit lite on Swag , but that has …

I was lucky enough to see a hands on session with Side Show yesterday afternoon, Dan Polivy who presented the sesssion brought along a selection of mock-up and nearly ready prototypes of mock up Slide Show devices , I think there has been a lot of misconceptions as to the purpose on Side Show and I think that …