The voting for the sessions at DDD5 is now open. Have a good read of the options and vote for what you would like to see sessions on. Of course I would not be suggesting you should vote for mine, but...............

Ayende Rahien and Roy Osherove have been having an interesting ping-pong about the merits and problems of TFS. Well worth a read....

Maybe it is just my background in network analysis, but I do feel any developer working with remote servers needs a protocol analyzer; in just the same way as you need the SQL profiler when working with a Microsoft SQL server, especially with auto generated code. Without tools like these how can you work out what is …

I posted in the past about all the problems I had with my overheating Dell 5150, and with the problems trying to Vista Betas working on it. Well an update on both.... After putting new thermal grease on the CPU heatskin it never overheated again With the release version of Vista every bit of hardware (bar the modem …

Microsoft marketing have as of today vanished and are presumed missing. They normally show themselves sometime at the end of the product cycle to replace cool and interesting project names with irrelevant and confusing messages about the product. Without the Microsoft marketing department's intervention a large …

I had posted on problems with the nVidia Raid on our SunFire servers. Well I think I now have the root cause of the problems: not the Sun hardware, the nVidia RAID, or Windows 64 bit drivers. All the problems we had were when we used mirrored pairs of Western Digital 500Gb SATA drives that we had bought in a single …

Douglas Coupland's Jpod has been doing the rounds in the office of late. I enjoyed MicroSerfs, so approached Jpod with excitement. Frankly, I'm disappointed. It's not the writing - I 've enjoyed pretty much all of his books. It's not that the books are similar in approach and style (they are) but rather the contrast in …

I think I've mentioned before how I've been updating our IT infrastructure. Company growth has meant a need for expanded services. Add to that new versions of SharePoint and Exchange, mix in a need to run virtual servers for development and you have a need for more tin. Over the past six months I've expanded our domain …

I went to the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club last night, the meeting included an Extreme Hour. An interesting experience; the idea is that in an hour you go through a number of 10 minute XP iterations, doing 'development' by drawing the solution on a white board. Yesterday we had three separate groups of six; each …

Today I rebuilt a PC with new drives and all seemed OK, but after 15 minutes or so it kept stopping (no nice shutdown), irrespective of what the PC was doing. I even swapped back the old disks all to no avail, hence I was stumped for a while. The problem turned out to be it was a somewhat full case and a wire was …