I have always read a lot of novels, and I like to have a book with me for those unexpected moments when I get a chance to read. Of late this has meant I use the Microsoft Reader on my phone. It is not too bad an experience, using Project Gutenberg I can get a book (fiddle a bit in Word) and export to the Reader format. However I would like a slicker experience and be able to read new releases, so the Kindle seems just the job....
I don’t work with C++, but if you do you might be interested in Typemock’s free webinar this Thursday (21st October) on Isolator++. It will cover: The basic API design principles of Isolator++ (from AAA to recursive fakes, loose fakes, sticky behaviour etc..) What can Isolator++ do that others can’t? Code examples using Google Test framework and Isolator++, to test nasty untestable C++ code And as it is being given by Roy Osherove, possibly a short song, suitable for the occasion, performed live....
I had a strangely thought provoking weekend, I took my son to do the tour of Concorde at Manchester Airport, and whilst in the area popped into Jodrell Bank to look at the Radio Telescope and the arboretum. Two great technological achievement, well worth a visit, but I felt both seemed to be in our past. I remember Concorde, I remember Apollo (just) and I remember sitting in a room at school to watch the first Shuttle launch, but where is the equivalent today?...
Want to monitor the health of your TFS system? Then wait no longer, the ALM Rangers have just shipped a SCOM Management pack for Visual Studio 2010. The management pack provides availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. So if you use any SKU of SCOM 2007 and TFS 2010 why not download it and have a look.
To quote their site…. Leeds Hack is a 24 hour hack day in the city of Leeds (surprise!). 100+ people in a room – Feed them, water them, take them out for walks every now and them and let them create some amazing things. Best of all… It’s free.. For more details have a look at http://leedshack.com/
The detailed agenda for the Developer Group Meeting on the 20th of October in London has been published. I am speaking in the afternoon on ‘Using Typemock Isolator to enable testing of both well designed code and nasty legacy systems’ Hope to see you there
I have reached my hotel after the days events at Software Craftsmanship 2010 at Bletchley Park and got a chance to write up my thoughts. I had planned to Tweet during the day, but just never got round to it, too busy. So how was the event? I have to say I don’t think I enjoyed it as much as last year’s event. That is not to say this was not a good event, but this years seemed to focus on hands on programming tasks....
We have had an internal timesheeting system written in Access services running without any problems for the past through months. At the end of last week, when people tried to submit their timesheets they started getting a -4002 error saying the macro (that saves the weekly sheet) could not be started. Checking the server event logs, Sharepoint logs and Access services log tables showed nothing. So as all good IT staff do we tried the traditional IISRESET command (on both our Sharepoint web servers) and it all leapt back into life....
The results of the DDD Dublin vote is in, and I am sorry to say I did not make it through the selection process. I must come up with at least some more interesting titles and abstracts (of course I can leave the sessions as dull as ever as you have voted for them by then, just like politicians and general elections really). The schedule looks really good, but after a bit of thought I have decided not to attend the event; I am speaking or attending events both the week before and the week after DDD Dublin so I am going to take the chance to reduce my carbon footprint and have a weekend at home....
DDD9 will be on the 29th Jan 2011 at TVP, for more details and to submit sessions see http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd9/