I have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader. It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer, phone etc.....)

The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that you can buy electronic books but there are so many out of copyright …

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July.

The slides I used yesterday were virtually identical to the ones I used at SQLBits II and can be found …

Typical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version!

See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.

I am speaking at the Scottish SQL user group on Wednesday about VS2008 for DB Professionals.

Hope to see you there.

There has been a good deal of discussion on Blogs and Forums as to if there is a need for a developer edition of Sharepoint (WSS3.0) so you can develop against it under Vista. Historically your options were:

• Run W2K3 on your client PC - licensing issues and maybe drivers if using a laptop
• Do all development in a VPC …

I have had a week off on holiday at a triathlon club training camp (some holiday some might say, 26 hours of training sessions in 6 days). We were staying at Idle Breaks just outside Malaga. A location which I cannot recommend highly enough, great location, facilities, food and owners.

However, I have to say you do get …

Yesterday we had the first drop of the VS2008 SP1 Beta, well there is also one for TFS2008. As with the main VS2008 service pack there are loads of fixes and some new features.

• Support for Windows Server 2008.
• Support for SQL Server Codename Katmai CTP6.
• The Add to Source Control dialogs have been improved to be …

14 May UPDATE - Due t illness the speaker cannot make it , so this session is being rescheduled to next month. Check the XP Club site for what is on in its place

Remember tomorrow is monthly meeting of the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds.

The session is by Chris Mills a developer …

Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful.

The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site. There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation on the Extreme Programming Club site.

The noticeable …