The details are out the for VBug event I am speaking at, it is going to be at The Castlegate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2JQ

Hope to see you there.

A busy time in the next few weeks for free community launch events for Windows 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008.

This week we at Black Marble are hosting a series of three evening events (See online booking) where you can see virtually the whole set of Black Marble speakers.

On the 30th of April there will be a …

After an uneventful journey I have got home from the IMTC conference in Dublin. Thanks to the organiser for running the event, it seemed to go well.

I hope I managed to answer any question my sessions on SQL BI and Scrum raised, if not send a message via this blog. I suspect there might be a few from the Scrum session …

It is the school holidays, so I am sitting in a children's indoor jungle gym sorting out my slides for Ireland while my son rushes around.

Having someone working on a laptop here seems to be a bit of novelty. I have had a number of children rush over to see what I am doing. They don't stay watching long when they spot …

Just found out that Robert and myself are both now doing two sessions at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference next week.

**Thursday
**13:45 - BI in SQL 08 (Richard Fennell)
16:45 - Microsoft Volta: Next Gen .NET Client-Server Apps (Robert Hogg)

**Friday
**10:00 - Overview of Business Process Automation and …

With the advent of Silverlight we are going to see more and more web delivered applications. A good example of what we can expect is the Microsoft HEROES happen {here} virtual launch site. If you did not make it to the event it is well worth a look with all the slides and videos of the sessions.

This site does makes …

I see there has been a release of the VSTS Scrum Process Template for VS2008 on CodePlex, so adding a way to run Scrum projects with the current release of TFS without the fiddling required for eScrum.

It looks good, but is missing for me the best part of eScrum, the web site that allows quick updating of the Scrum …

I have been trying to install the Feb CTP of SQL 2008 on an Virtual PC, but kept getting the following error

SQL Server Browser Install for feature 'SQL_Browser_Redist_SqlBrowser_Cpu32' failed with exception System.InvalidOperationException: This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be …

I will be speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference in early April on the Business Intelligence features in SQL 2008.

I also just found out my Continuous Integration session at Developer Day Scotland has been successful in the vote, thanks to everyone who voted for it.