I spoke at NxtGenUG’s Coventry user group earlier this week on GUI testing. All seemed to go well, but we shall see when I get the attendee feedback. It was good to see such a good turnout for a summer event, I know how hard it is to get people out at this time of year – I would hope that it was the scintillating …

I have just been building a couple of Sharepoint 2007 test servers with SQL Express I have been seeing the error message ReporterServer$SQLExpress $ is an illegal charactor. having removed SQL Express and replaced it with SQL Server the error still persists however after some gnashing of teeth and toil , the answer is …

I am presenting at NxtGenUG user group in Coventry on the 14th of August. I will be presenting an updated version of my presentation from DDD on Testing graphical user interfaces

It has just been bought to my attention that this Blogs server had been set to not allow new users to create accounts. This was due to an overly tight security review, sorry to anyone wo has wanted to post comments on either BM-Bloggers or Musapaloosa. New member registration has been re-enabled - comment away Richard

I decided to build a MCE PC for home (replacing a £200 DigiFusion PVR), I thought how hard can it be, it is just XP and a TV card. I don't intend to go into the gory details of the build, suffice it to say one blown motherboard and a true understanding that this is an OEM product (for dedicated hardware) not for the …

I had a great time at the Office Developer Conference in Hammersmith last week. It covered Infopath 12, SharePoint V3 and Workflow, some of my hot topics at the moment. It was great to put faces to names (and bloggers) like Dave Gristwood, and to see a few others speak again (like Mike Ormond). I also enjoyed Jessica …

I have just finished moving a large Embedded Visual Studio 4 (MFC) project to Visual Studio 2005. It was somewhat a painful experienece which I would not want others to have to endure. I am sure anybody else will have different problems but the solutions that helped me were

1. build a new Visual Studio 2005 MFC …

I had to have a new motherboard in my Dell 5150 laptop, one of the memory slots failed on the old one. Since the repair my laptop seems to have been running hot. Also when using Virtual PC 2004 SP1 the sessions seems to pause for a second or two from time to time. I have tried the hotfix for VPC 2004 and this seemed to …

A day or so ago our CruiseControl stopped working, I was seeing loads of problems in the Get source stage. Basically it was timing out, but it had work last week! OK I had been trying to get MsTest integrated but that should not have effected the source control. After much fiddling including: Creating a new VSS DB …

I have been trying to get Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer style unit tests working within CruiseControl. The documention says it should work, but is a little scant as to the detail of how to do it. So now I have it all going I thought an example of the working ccnet.config file with some comments might help other …