On Wednesday, we ran another of our triple-event days; great range of products covered and a lot of positive feedback. We started with m’learned colleagues Rik and John demonstrating all you need to know about Microsoft CRM 4.0. A hearty lunch readied the room for MSDN’s Eric Nelson and Mike Taulty from Microsoft and …

With the slew of great Developer and Architecture Guides appearing I have decided that a central list of them all is in order. I am now marking my resource lists to help people find them in the slew of “interesting” comments in my blog. Enterprise Library is up to 4.1 get it HERE Windows 7 Developer Guide – A guide for …

To license an installation of Typemock Isolator you run the Configuration tools and type in the key, you don’t get the option to enter the key during the installation. When I tried to run this tool today I got the error Now at first I thought it might be that I was on a64bit OS and it was looking in a portion of the …

The ever so great Rob Miles has released his most excellent C# Course for all. It is already spreading to the far east. The big question is where next? b.

I don’t recommend having automatic update switched on (which is the default) for Windows 7. Yesterday my Windows 7 install decided to install 20 updates. It rebooted and then rebooted again and again. My guess is that a driver updated and killed the boot process. It did try to go into the automatic fix, but this just …

The P&P group have updated the Enterprise Library to 4.1 get it HERE b.

I had to work unexpectedly from home yesterday, this has given me a chance to look at TypeMock Isolator and SPTypeMock to aid in the testing of SharePoint without the normal disturbances of being in the office. First thing I have to say is TypeMock is an amazing tool, OK it costs some money, unlike RhinoMocks, but it’s …

At the XP Club last night I was pointed at a web site that contains a very strange guide to Ruby ”Why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby”. This is one of strangest language books I have read in a while, probably since “Mr Bunny’s Guide to Active X”, which was described in its own blurb… “This is the first technology book by …

Technorati Tags: Hardware Microsoft Arc Mouse - Black Somehow I managed to obtain a new mouse for my laptop … it’s a Microsoft Arc. It’s extremely comfortable to use with a subtle transceiver, small enough to leave in the laptop in transit. Plus it looks nicely different, quite stylish and not really very mouse like at …

I am a bit partial to trying out new Microsoft hardware :), Over the weekend I received a Microsoft Arc The Arc Mouse’s is a full size mouse which has a brilliant folding back plate its foldable shape allows it to easily half in size and a natty carrying bag . Its micro transceiver clicks into the underside of the …