Back in the dim and distant history of Black Marble we were involved in the development of an SDK for the BT Callscape 100, a serial port based Computer Telephony Intergration product. This SDK allowed Windows developers to make use of the CTI functionality of this BT product from within any application development …

Robert has jetted off to Microsoft in Redmond to take part in the Business Process Integration & Workflow Conference. This is the event for partners to get up to speed on new and updated solutions for Business Process Automation, Integration Services and Workflow. He will be shown advance details about the …

Now showing on Channel9 - Richard's Podcast from the PDC! On Site at PDC...with Richard Fennell

Just been to the panel 'CLR Leveraging Dynamic Features' and seen IronPython demo'ed to control a VB.NET application. It was used to load the assembly, create the form, and allowed the triggering of events, but better still allowed the dynamic creation and binding of new controls from the IronPython command line. …

Channel 9 were giving away 1600 t-shirts in 21 minutes - there was a feeding frenzy and the sharks were on the floor. Funniest thing I've seen in a long time. PDC05

Just a quick one here, WE HAVE SO MANY OPTIONS!!!!!!! I see the short term issue for many prople will be which technology is best, do I go BizTalk now, grow something in house or wait a while for Windows Workflow Foundations. My feeling is that WWF is the long term answer, but that does not help us today, business …

Just been to the Windows Vista: Developing for Test Automation and Accessibility Using Programmatic Access to UI session by Thomas Logan, this is very interesting given the bits I have done over the past year on UI testing. The UI Spy tool and associated framework is a great way to navigate and control the running of …

I have wandered round after the PDC keynoted confused; before I came here I thought I had a plan on what to concentrate on but after the keynote all that went out the window! I am at a loss as to which session to go to as there is so many wildly different areas I want to know more about! The big item that struck me …

A great evening. We went for pizza and met irascian who was most interesting to chat to, and a Microsoft 9er (2nd from left in picture) who did the channel9 redesign, I think his name is Adam Kinney. Met Scoble, and stayed for a very interesting discussion about life, the universe and Microsoft. Then went on to the …

Richard and I registered today. Saw the "Big Room" which is the name for the aircraft hangar where commnet, hol, and the channel 9 sit down is all happening. Posted a couple of pics to the Channel 9 website, of me and Richard with the 9 guy and Richard lounging on the 9 guy bean bags. Also available in our …