We are hosting Microsoft's Azure Technical Briefing

Interested in finding out more about Microsoft’s Cloud computing strategy and the technology behind Azure? Yes - well you are in luck there are more UK Microsoft road show events in February. They are in Cambridge, Edinburgh and the one we are hosting in Bradford on the 13th. For more details and links to registration see http://blogs.msdn.com/ukisvdev/archive/2009/01/14/new-dates-for-azure-technical-briefing-announced.aspx

January 28, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Writing a webpart to work inside and outside Sharepoint when talking to WCF

I have posted in the past on porting our ASP.NET bug tracking systems into Sharepoint and also linking it to TFS. The idea being that the initial customer support contact is tracked in the call tracking system e.g. is it switched on, is there paper in it….., and then escalated to TFS when development effort is required. To do this escalation my webpart calls a WCF service to access the TFS API - why you ask?...

January 28, 2009 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New name for the XP Club and next months event

The details of the February meeting of the Agile Yorkshire User Group (new name, and new web site is on the way, watch out for posts) The session is on developers experiences of TDD, another view from the coal face. See you there, 2nd Wednesday of the month as usual….

January 27, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Call for speakers for DDD South West

DDD community events are getting another venue this year, Queen’s College in Taunton on the 23rd of May. It has been decided that some of the speaker will be regulars from other DDD events; including myself speaking on Scrum. However all the other slots will be filled in the usual submission and voting manner, with the added rule the speaker should be new to the conference circuit (speaking to user groups is allowed and encouraged)....

January 27, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Voting opens for SQLBits IV

You can vote for sessions at SQLBit IV as of today at http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx, you do need to join the site first. Note joining the site is not the same as registering to attend the event which has not opened yet.

January 26, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell