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 …

Since updating to TFS 2008 we have lost our Sprint Burndown chart in eScrum, not a major problem as we use the cumulative flow in its place. However, I have eventually got round to fixing it.

It turns out the problem is down to the the way the dates for the start and end of the Sprint are converted to measure names for …

If you are using the TFS API within a WebApp with impersonation there is a good chance you will see the error below when you run the web site on IIS

System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.    
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource)    
at …

I have just adding some Performance Counters to instrument some code and had a few issues that are worth knowing about.

I created two categories of counters using the following code:

//Create a category with a single counter
PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(
               "categoryName", …

Saw an excellent play last night, Hapgood at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. For those who have no heard if it, it is a Tom Stoppard play about spies and physics set in the late 80s.

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loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Promotional image for West Yorkshire Playhouse production of Hapgood, Josie …

I have just uploaded the first release of my BlogWriter for Smart Devices which allows you to post new messages to blog servers that uses the MetaBlog API. My aim was to provide a LiveWriter like application for devices like my HTC PDA.

In the zip file you will find these instructions and a .CAB file. The installation …

I went to very interesting IET meeting last night entitled 'Enigma & Friends' given by John Alexander. He is a private collector of encryption machines; the bulk of his collection is currently house in the Block-B exhibit at Bletchley Park and is open to the public.

The difference between going to the museum and …

This post has been written with a blog writer (same idea as Live Writer) that I have written for a Smart Device using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5

The reason I wrote it was I find Community Server a bit awkward to use in a web browser on a small form factor device like my HTC Cruise phone. Being able to create a post …