You will recall from my earlier post how much I like my Dell Venue 8 Pro and how disappointed I was that the stylus was on back-order until March. Imagine my surprise, then, when a package arrived at the beginning of this week with a shiny new stylus in it! As you can see from the picture, it works just great with …

I’ve been hat-swapping again since just before christmas (which explains the lack of Azure IaaS posts I’m afraid). I’ve been working on a large SharePoint 2013 project, most lately on customising a number of elements around publishing. Getting those custom elements into SharePoint from my solution raised a number of …

The GDR3 update for my Nokia 820 has at last arrived. As my phone is a developer unit it is at the end of the automated update list. I suppose I could have pulled it down by hand, but I was not in a major rush as I am not doing WP8 development at present. The update seems to have gone on OK. Only strange thing was I …

All has been going well since our upgrade from TFS 2012 to 2013, no nasty surprises. As I had a bit of time I thought it a good idea to start the updates of our build and lab/test systems. We had only upgraded our TFS 2012.3 server to 2013. We had not touched our build system (one 2012 controller and 7 agents on …

We are testing the ‘social publish’ plugin for BlogEngine. Rik’s post has the details on what needs to be done to get it working with the current Twitter APIs

I sadly miss Twitter Notify, the plugin for Windows Live Writer that would tweet when I published a new post. Fortunately, there are a couple of plugins for BlogEngine.Net that purport to do the same thing. I’ve just deployed SocialPublish to our server. Configuration is a bit fiddly, and I’m not sure yet how well it …

Some time ago I wrote about how disappointed I was with the Acer W3 tablet. I really wanted that small form factor device, but the Acer fell short in pretty much every regard. Late last year Dell launched the Venue 8 Pro – the first of the new generation of 8” Windows tablets out of the gate. I sat on the fence for a …

Update 27 Jun 2013 See update version of post with more data I seem to be involved with a number of TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrades at present. I suppose people are looking at TFS 2013 in the same way as they have historically looked at the first service pack for a product i.e: the time to upgrade when most of the main …

We have eventually got around to the 2013 upgrade of our production TFS server. It had been put off due to some tight delivery deadlines around Christmas. The upgrade went fine, unlike out some previous ones we have had. The upgrading of our team process templates, to add the new features, was greatly eased by using …

I am upgrade an internal system from .NET 4.0 to 4.5 so that I can use the Team API features in TFS. The system is based around a WCF web service that links our customer help desk system to TFS to keep bug reports in sync. It uses Entity Framework to access our help desk SQL DB. When I changed the targeted .NET …