My apologies to Craig, who posted a comment to my earlier post about our FBA problems and I didn't notice until today. To update you all on the situation, the fault is still with Microsoft and I have not yet received a hotfix. However, for anybody considering FBA in their deployment, I would not let this issue stop …

I said I'd post again once I'd had the Diamond a little while. It's now been two weeks and I can honestly say I'm completely happy with it. Battery life for me is fine - I charge it about every three days and it chugs along with exchange push pretty much constantly. I am quite comfortable with the soft keyboard and I …

I posted last week about a couple of issues we were experiencing with SharePoint. I made some traction on the Workflow History issue at the end of last week and the revelation was pretty far-reaching, so I'm posting again. It turns out that the stuff I said about systemupdate was wrong... up to a point. There is a bug …

In my last post about the Diamond I said I would let you know what the battery life is. I therefore carefully refrained from giving it any charge over the weekend, even when connected to my PC. That means that it received no power from 5.30pm on Friday until it died (which it did, eventually). After that time, exchange …

Richard's little mobile blogging app is nice, but he isn't that responsive to user requests (ie, mine!) so I thought I would see if anything else was out there. Sadly, the answer appears to be 'not really' However, I did come across Diarist, from Kevin Daly. Perhaps not surprisingly I am using it now. I must say that …

That might sound like a strange thing to say, but when my shiny new Touch Diamond, which I picked up from Orange this week, has no Orange branding or customisation of the UI. I hadn't really noticed that until I went into the manual, where the screenshots are totally different from my phone. I was beginning to wonder …

Thanks to the advanced notice from Tracy and Matt's blog, I picked up my HTC Touch Diamond yesterday from the Orange Store and it's great! 'But wait!' I hear you cry, 'didn't he go on about the experia x1 and how he wanted one?' Well, yes, I did. I admit it - I am fickle in my affections.Since I wrote that post, I have …

I need to update something like 300 web.config files today, with the same change in each. I turned to my old friend Google for his recommendations and up popped a magnificent free tool from Nodesoft. Why magnificent? It's advanced mode allows you to specify start and end tags and update everything in between. That's …

Well done Richard, who has been given the accolade of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual Studio Team System.

When trying to view an item in a list which has workflows run against it, you get an error: Some part of your SQL statement is nested too deeply. Rewrite the query or break it up into smaller queries Problem Background Trying to explain the exact nature of our configuration in this case would break many people's heads. …