Yesterday I was at the Solution Architect Forum: Defining, Building and Using Software Factories at Microsoft TVP, all very interesting and I or Robert will no doubt blog on it soon. The Q&A session throw up some interesting questions on if Software Factories will have an effect on the status of the Software …

1. “YOU NEED A LICENSE TO TOUCH THAT!” 1.1. Introduction Throughout the history of science and technology there has been a trend in the development spectrum away from the gentleman amateur and towards the professional engineer. This report explores at which point on this spectrum Software Engineering currently lies …

Today I tried upgrading a VS 2003 ASP.NET 1.1 application to VS 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 all went OK I had a play but I wanted to roll back from my sourcesafe system to the ASP.NET 1.1 as this is what the production server is using at present. Again this all went OK, or so I thought. I then tried to debug my ASP.NET 1.1 …

This one really got me. I was trying to get the built in WiFi working on a new Acer 2350. Windows XP saw the built in IPN2220 fine, but got no signal strength, but a Netgear USB WiFi worked fine in the same PC After much fiddling and time on Internet I found the problem, there is a small black flight mode switch on the …

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 …

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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 …