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 impressed …

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 …

Rik and I arrived this afternoon in Barcelona for the TechEd IT conference that is going on this week. Our flight was pretty good, and our bags even arrived at baggage reclaim fairly quickly. After some confusion, we managed to negotiate the train/underground to get to our hotel (and I must say here that I was very …

I am just back from the PDC and all the great news ( post to follow ) and I am just off to TechED IT all though Rik seems to have forgotten me :( if you are at TechED IT pop over to the BizTalk booth and say hello. b.

The P&P team have released the Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance Guidance book. The guide is designed to help groups meet customers expectations of delivery. How to Plan for Acceptance Testing What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests Defining What “Done” Means ( this is the …