I’m pleased to have been asked to speak at NEBytes again – a great user group that meets in Newcastle. I’ll be speaking about customising SharePoint 2013 using master pages, themes and search templates, along the same lines as my recent blog  post.

It will be an unusual one for me, as I will spend most of the session …

Update 2/4/2014 – Added notes about using service accounts as opposed to machine accounts for the AppPool running the web service

In the past I have posted on how to get Kerberos running for multi tier applications. Well as usual when I had to redeploy the application onto new hardware I found my notes were not as …

I am speaking at Gravitas’s Tech Talk #3 - "TFS & Visual Studio 2013 vs The Rest" on Tuesday march the 4th about

"Microsoft's Application Lifecycle product has had a lot of changes in the past couple of years. In this session will look at how it can be used provide a complete solution from project …

You will recall from my earlier post how much I like my Dell Venue 8 Pro and how disappointed I was that the stylus was on back-order until March.

Imagine my surprise, then, when a package arrived at the beginning of this week with a shiny new stylus in it!

The GDR3 update for my Nokia 820 has at last arrived. As my phone is a developer unit it is at the end of the automated update list. I suppose I could have pulled it down by hand, but I was not in a major rush as I am not doing WP8 development at present.

The update seems to have gone on OK. Only strange thing was I …

All has been going well since our upgrade from TFS 2012 to 2013, no nasty surprises.

As I had a bit of time I thought it a good idea to start the updates of our build and lab/test systems. We had only upgraded our TFS 2012.3 server to 2013. We had not touched our build system (one 2012 controller and 7 agents on …

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Some time ago I wrote about how disappointed I was with the Acer W3 tablet. I really wanted that small form factor …