- I like the concept of SideShow and I think one of its flaws is not enough devices NOW , they are slowly coming on stream but not quickly enough for me. So along with all of the other items arriving this week I was pleased to see this a windows mobile version of side show and I have spent the day controlling my PC from …
Read More I will say it now and I will say it again , Live Writer rocks. A new tech preview with some cool user features and even more developer features are available here.
User Features include:
Video and Image enhancements : Soapbox support , Better Image support (cropping , tilting , effects )
Editing: Word count , smart …
Read MoreI am not at TechED Dev in Orlando ( I am going to IT Pro next week , see me at the BizTalk ATE stand ), but there are some important announcements to cover off.
Microsoft Project Codename “Velocity” CTP
**“**Velocity” allows high availability to data by integrating Large clusters of machines _s_eamlessly into a single …
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July.
The slides I used yesterday were virtually identical to the ones I used at SQLBits II and can be found …
Read MoreTypical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version!
See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.
Read MoreI am speaking at the Scottish SQL user group on Wednesday about VS2008 for DB Professionals.
Hope to see you there.
Read MoreThere has been a good deal of discussion on Blogs and Forums as to if there is a need for a developer edition of Sharepoint (WSS3.0) so you can develop against it under Vista. Historically your options were:
- Run W2K3 on your client PC - licensing issues and maybe drivers if using a laptop
- Do all development in a VPC …
Read More- I forgot to say in the last post the thing I noticed most about Spain - the quality of the roads and the courtesy of the drivers. Both excellent. As a cyclist in the UK I am used to pot-holes and being cut up all the time. None of this is Spain, drivers seem happy to wait for cycles and overtake safely giving loads of …
Read More I have had a week off on holiday at a triathlon club training camp (some holiday some might say, 26 hours of training sessions in 6 days). We were staying at Idle Breaks just outside Malaga. A location which I cannot recommend highly enough, great location, facilities, food and owners.
However, I have to say you do get …
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