Well, it's the end of day zero, the partner-only day here at the Madrid Project Conference. It's been an interesting day. I'm not sure what I am allowed to say, but service pack 1 for Office 2007, which covers the desktop products, sharepoint, project server et al is very close to being available now. That was an …

Finally, after all the excitement that Richard and Robert had in Seattle and Barcelona, I find myself in the Auditorium Hotel, Madrid for the EMEA Project Conference. According to the multilingual sales blurb in my room, the hotel is the largest in Europe, and I must say it's very nice. We flew in yesterday and today …

Since I upgraded my VS2008 Beta2 to the RTM, the intellisense has not been working. I have seen a few posts about this, some suggesting you need to reset the configuration by running devenv.exe /safemode (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241278(VS.80).aspx) but this did not work for me. So I had a poke …

I was planning on doing a series of blogs about OO design patterns. It certainly is a hot topic in our offices with many differences of opinion on how you should implement software. My aim here is highlight the patterns I've discovered (in a 2nd hand sense :p) for other developers new to object orientated best …

Welcome to my blog. I thought I'd introduce myself and the contents of this blog. This is my first experiment at blogging. I imagine this blog will remain a place for me to discuss ideas rather than my daily activities. I am a software developer working for Black Marble in Bradford, UK. I plan this blog to be …

For those of you who attended my DDD6 session on Scrum you will remember that I had to cut my demo of eScrum short due to taking too many questions as I went along. So I have recorded what I intended to show as a screencast, enjoy.

Today I had to do some work on an old VB6 system, a development environment I do not have on my Vista laptop. So I copied a Virtual PC image I had with most of the tools I needed and ran it on one of our Virtual Servers. As this VPC needed to run at the same time as the VPC I copied it from, I ran NewSid to change the …

The Avalanche of add-on's for Visual Studio 2008 has started. I thought it would be useful to keep a list so here it is. Latest Addition : VSTS Model Power Tool : CTP Visual Studio 2008 SDK Web Deployment Project (RTW) ASP Ajax Control Toolkit Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Templates for Visual Studio 2008 Key Additions …

Got back from DDD6 late last night after our 5am start. After what seemed a short nights sleep I got up to do the Abbey Dash 10K in Leeds this morning with 6000 other runners, posting a 47 minute time, which I suppose is OK given the complete lack training of late due to conferences of late and I was hampered by …

Just seen a post on Brian Harry's blog that the license has been changed for TFS. You no longer need a CAL for all users who connect to the TFS server, a special case of users has been created, those who can create work items, but do little else. You now have an unlimited number of theses as standard. Why is this good? …