I asked the question a while ago if I should buy a Kindle? I still think that new books are too expensive, but as there are loads of out of copyright books available for the platform so I did not hesitate to download the Windows Phone 7 Kindle app today. You never know when you need something to read and what could be better to dip into than a bit of Sherlock Holmes?...
Seems yet again my sessions for a DDD event did not excite the voting public; the selected sessions for DDD9 are out and I am not on the list. Again it does look a nice varied selection of sessions. I have tried to see if I can see a trend in what is being selected, but it seems a fair mix between language feature introductions, web technologies, tools and architecture/process/patterns – so something for everyone....
The voting has opened for DDD9, As with all the DDD style events the agenda is set by you, the attendees, so get in there any say what you are interested in, it is not as if there is not a great choice this time. I have a session up on writing custom build activities for TFS 2010 which I hope some of you will find interesting, but I do fear it is a rather specialist area!...
Did you miss the Typemock session on mocking legacy system this week? If you you can watch a recording at the Typemock site. If you are interested a more SharePoint specific session check out my session next week.
Thanks to everyone who turned out from Rik’s and my session last night at NEBytes. I have not bothered uploading my slides as it was really a demo driven session, but there is a video of a similar session I did at NDC2010 However, if you want to learn more about using Typemock Isolator with legacy system why not attended Roy Osherove’s ‘Be a Legacy Code Unit Test Ninja with Typemock Isolator’ web session next week?...
For ages now I have have been prompted when I loaded Live Writer that there was an upgrade available, and every time I tried it get it, at the end of the install it failed and rolled back. As I did not have time to dig into it I just used the older version. Well today, due to upgrades in our LAN, I need to upgraded Live Messenger and as this is of part of the same Live Essentials 2011 package it not unsurprising I hit the same problem....
Adding a Visual Basic 6 project to your TFS 2010 build process is not are hard as I had expected it to be. I had assumed I would have to write a custom build workflow template, but it turned out I was able to use the default template with just a few parameters changed from their defaults. This is the process I followed. I created a basic ‘Hello world’ VB6 application....
I tried to open a TFS 2010 build template within the Visual Studio shell (the bit that gets installed when you put Team Explorer onto a PC) and saw the error “The document contains errors that must be fixed before the designer can be loaded”. ” At the bottom of the screen it showed that all the underling assemblies could not be found. The solution is simple, install a ‘real version’ of Visual Studio, I put on Premium....
This is a follow up to the post Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos – well it looks like fun with hindsight When I wrote the last post I thought I had our WCF Kerberos issues sorted, I was wrong. I had not checked what happened when I tried to access the webpart from outside our TMG firewall. When I did this I was back with the error that I had no security token....
I have had my LG WP7 phone about a week now. The best thing about it, it just works. Ok I have had a few learning issues over the Metro UI, but usually the answer is so obvious I have just overlooked it. Stupid things like I was looking for the button that was equivalent to the long press on the end key on my HTC Windows 6.5 phone to lock the phone; I had not consider the off button!...