So, 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 …

I 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 seen …

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 …

So, the keynote was interesting. Much of the content I had seen before, but there were some demos that were interesting and a few snippets that made me take note. For example, I had not understood that the acquisition of Kidaro will enable interaction between applications running within a virtual machine and the host …

It's an exercise in surreality. I've just walked through tunnels reminiscent of THX1138, to emerge in a wonderful blue-bathed auditorium, and they're playing the Akira soundtrack (specifically the bit from just after the first nuclear explosion). Weird. Andy and I travelled all the way from Bradford, and the first guy …

Having just returned from PDC in LA, here are my highlights from the week. Windows Azure - this is the OS for the cloud. Microsoft have learnt from their experiences and created a secure, scalable platform for developing and deploying your web applications. .Net Services - Are a set of services hosted in the cloud to …

It's 7:25 AM. Andy and I are hoping to make a whistle-stop trip to the Cathedral before making it to the conference early enough to get good seats for the keynote. I thought I'd take a picture of the conference pack, especially since I've heard grumblings about the PDC bag. The TechEd pack looks pretty much identical …

A new version of the Application Architecture Guide ( v2.0 ) has been released to beta. Part I, Fundamentals of Application Architecture Part II, Design Part III, Layers Part IV, Quality Attributes Part V, Archetypes - Design and Patterns Get it Here. b.

Ola! Andy and I are now in sunny Espana. Only it's not sunny. Oh well... However, true to form we started our trip, having registered at the conference centre, by eating hot dogs in a german fast food joint in a Spanish shopping centre! If you're passing, Kurz & Gut does pretty good food. I'm also extremely …

Developer Express and Microsoft now are shipping a limited free copy version of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro. The free edition is available for C# developers using Visual Studio 2008. A list of features : Find any File or Symbol... Tab to Next Reference Expand/Shrink Selection Intelligent Declaration Based on Usage …