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I have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader. It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer, phone etc…..) The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that you can buy electronic books but there are so many out of copyright classic’s I have not read yet. You can download many from Project Gutenberg (and convert them to the right format using the add-in for Word) so why buy newer ones?...

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July. The slides I used yesterday were virtually identical to the ones I used at SQLBits II and can be found on our server. The only major change was a bit about yesterdays announcement of the GDR release that I wrote on the train up after watching the Channel9 video - but Gert’s blog is a better source information for this....

Typical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version! See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.

I am speaking at the Scottish SQL user group on Wednesday about VS2008 for DB Professionals. Hope to see you there.

There has been a good deal of discussion on Blogs and Forums as to if there is a need for a developer edition of Sharepoint (WSS3.0) so you can develop against it under Vista. Historically your options were: Run W2K3 on your client PC - licensing issues and maybe drivers if using a laptop Do all development in a VPC (or VMware) - is be a bit slow. Now some people argue the separation between client and server this causes is good - and it is a strong argument....