I see the agenda for DDD5 is up, thanks to everyone who voted for my session on TFS.

I better write it now!

I can confirm that putting a Corsair Flash Voyager USB Stick in 40C Mixed Cotton wash is not the best way to clean it of old data. A traditional format remains the best solution for dirty data.

However, it does show these rubberized USB sticks are tough, two hours in a washing mean seems to have done no harm. Also the …

Went to a great session last night at the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club, a intro to Test Driven Development using just Excel. The presentation was given by Clarke Ching, you can find out more about him and this presentation on his blog

I just had not occurred to me that Excel is a great way to show TDD principles …

On Wednesday 19th of September I will be speaking at an evening event organised by Guy Smith-Ferrier of the .NET Developers Network in Bristol. The session will be on Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

For full details have a look at http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Meetings/tabid/54/EntryID/7/Default.aspx

Just got my reminder for NxtGen's FEST07 conference which is at Microsoft TVP on the 23rd of May.

Unfortunately, due to a busy diary, I cannot make it to the event, but the speaker line up does look good. If you have never seen  Rafal Lukawiecki speak, who has topped the polls at TechEd for the last 7 years, this is …

The problem

We have had an insteresting problem, we have a Virtual Server 2007 R2 (Beta), this is accessed both internally on our company network and externally via a ISA 2006 on the Internet. This has been working fine with our XP PCs, but we saw problems when we tried to use Vista.

When on our LAN, the Vista PC was …

We have been having fun installing SQL2005 Developer Edition on Vista PCs with Reporting Services, you need the SP2 for Vista, but installation of  this kept stalling with authentication problems.

Turns out this is the process to follow:

1. Do a default Install SQL 2005 Dev. Edition
2. Run the Reporting Service …

The voting for the sessions at DDD5 is now open. Have a good read of the options and vote for what you would like to see sessions on.

Of course I would not be suggesting you should vote for mine, but...............

Ayende Rahien and Roy Osherove have been having an interesting ping-pong about the merits and problems of TFS.

Well worth a read....