This post has been written with a blog writer (same idea as Live Writer) that I have written for a Smart Device using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 The reason I wrote it was I find Community Server a bit awkward to use in a web browser on a small form factor device like my HTC Cruise phone. Being able to create a post offiline just seemed an easier option. ...
I posted a while ago about my new HTC Cruise, well I am still really happy with it but I have come across a problem. I have found that from time to time I get problems trying to do a Send/Receive in Outlook Mobile via the 3G mobile phone network. Well today after a chat with Tom I spotted the pattern. ...
I will be speaking on Visual Studio for Database Professionals to the Scottish SQL usergroup on the 4th June in Edinburgh. Update The event booking site is now available at http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=115
The details are out the for VBug event I am speaking at, it is going to be at The Castlegate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2JQ Hope to see you there.
A busy time in the next few weeks for free community launch events for Windows 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008. This week we at Black Marble are hosting a series of three evening events (See online booking) where you can see virtually the whole set of Black Marble speakers. On the 30th of April there will be a VBug hosted launch event in Newcastle where I, Rik and Iain will be speaking. ...
After an uneventful journey I have got home from the IMTC conference in Dublin. Thanks to the organiser for running the event, it seemed to go well. I hope I managed to answer any question my sessions on SQL BI and Scrum raised, if not send a message via this blog. I suspect there might be a few from the Scrum session as it seems the cinema (where the conference was held) had a movie scheduled to start at 6pm, the same time I was scheduled to finish so not much chance to stand around for a Q&A and chat. ...
It is the school holidays, so I am sitting in a children’s indoor jungle gym sorting out my slides for Ireland while my son rushes around. Having someone working on a laptop here seems to be a bit of novelty. I have had a number of children rush over to see what I am doing. They don’t stay watching long when they spot the VPC of SQL 2008 and a PowerPoint stack. ...
Just found out that Robert and myself are both now doing two sessions at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference next week. **Thursday **13:45 - BI in SQL 08 (Richard Fennell) 16:45 - Microsoft Volta: Next Gen .NET Client-Server Apps (Robert Hogg) **Friday **10:00 - Overview of Business Process Automation and implementing an Enterprise Service Bus using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (Robert Hogg) 16:45 - What is Scrum? (Richard Fennell)
With the advent of Silverlight we are going to see more and more web delivered applications. A good example of what we can expect is the Microsoft HEROES happen {here} virtual launch site. If you did not make it to the event it is well worth a look with all the slides and videos of the sessions. This site does makes heavy use of multimedia and it is maybe just me but I find it hard to find things, it look great but I don’t like having to guess where the menu might be. In general I want information fast not see a intro video; but this could just be because I am a developer and not a designer. I think this is especially true of sites you go back to again and again. It strikes me that for sites like this search become the key if you are ever to find relevant material. ...
I see there has been a release of the VSTS Scrum Process Template for VS2008 on CodePlex, so adding a way to run Scrum projects with the current release of TFS without the fiddling required for eScrum. It looks good, but is missing for me the best part of eScrum, the web site that allows quick updating of the Scrum project without the need for Visual Studio. If you are going to be doing Scrum you don’t want to having to spend loads of time on the electronic scrum board administration. ...