I was looking into Micro Formats earlier in the year and so I was really interested to see that the Mix team have produced a MicroFormats Toolkits to help create , consume and use MicroFormats. There is a IE component to help identify MicroFormats. A Live Writer Plugin to help create hCards CSS styles for MicroFormats …

Normally when I talk about security I am discussing security about developer , IT or personal ( social engineering ). However this article took my fancy about UCSD Scientists furthering the high tech nature of lock picking by producing a system that makes a working copy of a key based solely on a photograph. b.

I am not a fan of blog posts that are just a repeat of an announcement on other blogs, but in this case I think it is worth noting that the TFS October 2008 Release of the Power Toys are out. The power toys are always interesting but the point of note here is the new shell integration for TFS. This means you can check …

Next weeks meeting is at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds as usual at 7pm. It is going to be group discussion sort of session, the subjects being: Daniel Drozdzewski is going to present the future of the computing (based on the article read in recent New Scientist about processors built on logic gates utilising the chaos …

I attended a very interesting presentation this morning by Mikael Nystrom on creating a master image for SCVMM. We’ve been using VPCs for quite a while, in particular when building test systems for the developers to run their code on. Using a master image (or a series of master images) in SCVMM will help us speed up …

Whist at PDC and the VBug conference I have heard a a good deal of chat over the future of paying for conferences and user groups. This is in the light of all the PDC sessions being available on Channel9 in under 24 hours and that the content at the Vbug conference is also available at free events like DDD. The …

Since we added the new themes to our community server we have not been getting any updates on the Blogs control panel as to the number of times a post has been viewed (but the aggregate views via RSS are incremented OK) After a bit of digging it seems that we missing the IncrementViewCount flag on the in the post.aspx …

In addition to the two Steve Riley presentations I saw, there were a few other items that caught my attention on day 3: Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. yes, that’s right, there will be no 32-bit version. WoW64 will still be available for those of you needing to run x86 apps on the server, but it’s now an …

So, we're on the penultimate day of TechEd EMEA and I have to say that exhaustion is starting to creep in. However, the day had a great start with sessions by Steve Riley and then Mark Russinovich. Steve was talking about security implications of virtulisation and his views were stimulating. He was talking in depth …

Following a strong recommendation from Robert, I attended a couple of talks by Steve Riley (Senior Security Strategist for Microsoft). The first presentation was titled ‘21st Century Networking: throw away your medieval gateways’, the second was ‘Do these ten things or get 0wn3d!’. Steve has to be one of the best …