I will be speaking at NxtGen usergroup Birmingham branch on the 17th December about, you guessed it TFS. Look forward to seeing you there.

As I sit on the train traveling north to our Black Marble hosted MSDN event I must write to say how much I enjoyed presenting at last night's .NET Developers Network usergroup meeting; thanks to Guy Smith Ferrier and the whole group for getting it organized. I think I managed to cover all the questions raised about TFS …

I have had a week of Web 2.0 mashup sites at the MIx07 London event so was interested in a thing on the TV last night whilst watching England's appalling performance against South Africa in the rugby. eBay ran adverts with a virtually real time feed (20 second delay they claimed) from a live auction. Now I have never …

I have just heard my proposed session for the SQLBits conference has been accepted. I will be talking on Unit Testing in SQL Server my proposal was: Test driven development is one of the current hot topics in software development, but how far can these principles be applied in the world of SQL? In this session I will …

See I was right, in my post yesterday I said the key role missing in most WPF projects was the 'designer who can cut code' or 'coder with a design eye', the session Silverlight, WPF, Expression design projects - where do we get started today was on just this subject Paul Dawson and Robby Ingebretsen discussed the need …

So we reach the end of the first day of Mix07 London, what are my thoughts? Well the conference, as conference go, is well organized and I can have no complaint over the quality of the sessions or presenters. Has it changed how I think about Silverlight? Well I have realised that 1.0 is a very different product to 1.1. …

Today and tomorrow I am at the Mix07 conference in London which is being held at the Congress Centre, a building that I knew as the Trade Union Congress building. So given this location I expected a Harold Wilson 'beer and sandwiches' style lunch, but no it was small food (very nice tapas style dishes) and as we all …

I am speaking at the .NET User group in Bristol next week and have been putting some final touches to my demos. One thing I will be talking about is using CruiseControl with TFS. Whilst getting this running on my demo VPC I hit a problem. I did a default install of CruiseControl .Net 1.3, this was on top of a Visual …

I am off to loads of conferences and event in the next few week, you wait all year for one then they all come together..... Next week Mix07 - London Office Business Applications Architect Forum - London This month MSDN: Introduction to .NET Framework V3.0 - Leeds (hosted by Black Marble) Microsoft SOA and Business …

New version of LiveWriter beta is out, it adds video support (not sure yet if this feature works with Community Server). Watch out of you are installing it as it also updates other Live components such as messenger and tried to add some IE toolbars you might or might not want