- The last session of the day was just incredible. A surfer-dude with boundless energy wandering around the audience in shorts, cracking jokes and telling stories and every single one related in some way to his point. Steve Riley is a fantastic presenter, and his session - Do these ten things now or else get 0wned was a …
Read More You can find the slides for my Vbug sessions on the [Black Marble web site](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/SectionDisplay.aspx?name=Publications&subsection=Conference Papers).
I hope those you attended found it useful.
Read More- My first session of the day was about project Gemini. Following the brief demonstration in the keynote, I was really looking forward to a better look at Gemini, its background and how it will help information workers and IT professionals; I wasn’t disappointed. Cristian Petculescu, the Principal Architect for Gemini is …
Read More OK, MED-V is cool! Sadly, cool though it is, it's not something we'll use3 at BM, but in my previous lives doing large organisation IT, MED-V would have been a killer.
In a nutshell, it is this: create a Virtual PC image with your legacy OS and legacy App. Deploy that VPC to your users desktop so they can run your …
Read More- We were in early today, looking forward to a session on SharePoint with Bill Engolish. Sadly, that was cancelled so Andy and I sat in on the Server 2008 R2 overview session presented by Iain McDonald. That was very interesing, and we learned a bit more about BranchCache. It doesn't look like it will replace WAN …
Read More I am down in Reading for the VBug conference where I am speaking on TFS tomorrow.
Whilst in the bar chatting to Roy Osherove from Typemock, the keynote speaker for the conference, he asked if I had looked at the Sharepoint patterns and practices document that details using Typemock Isolator for unit testing in …
Read MoreAndy and I are now in a TMG preview demo. This looks really interesting - we spoke to the guys at ATE last night and saw a few items that I hope to see now in more detail. TMG is ISA Server vnext - codenamed 'Nitrogen' and part of the 'Stirling' next wave of Forefront.
Stirling family members exchange information to …
Read MoreSo, the first session of the day was an extremely well-attended overview of Windows 7 features. When they talk about evolution rather than revolution with regard to Windows 7, I think that's accurate. It was very much about developing and extending the foundations of Vista.
A few things stuck out, however. An almost …
Read MoreI think that the Barcelona Metro is superb. So far over the last couple of days it’s been an extremely good, fast service that has got us around the city with no problems at all.
In addition, nobody seems to bat an eyelid when people take all sorts of things with them you’d never expect to see at home. So far I’ve …
Read More- Robert blogged about the new beta release of the patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance document. I have had a chance to do a quick read now and I have to say I am impressed. If nothing else it gives great comparative look at waterfall and agile methods for delivery, and a review of many types of …
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