and another point...

I forgot to say in the last post the thing I noticed most about Spain - the quality of the roads and the courtesy of the drivers. Both excellent. As a cyclist in the UK I am used to pot-holes and being cut up all the time. None of this is Spain, drivers seem happy to wait for cycles and overtake safely giving loads of room. All this on super smooth roads....

May 28, 2008 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

An Idle break

I have had a week off on holiday at a triathlon club training camp (some holiday some might say, 26 hours of training sessions in 6 days). We were staying at Idle Breaks just outside Malaga. A location which I cannot recommend highly enough, great location, facilities, food and owners. However, I have to say you do get some strange looks as you get ready for a swim in the Mediterranean....

May 26, 2008 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New TFS stuff that has just been published

Yesterday we had the first drop of the VS2008 SP1 Beta, well there is also one for TFS2008. As with the main VS2008 service pack there are loads of fixes and some new features. Support for Windows Server 2008. Support for SQL Server Codename Katmai CTP6. The Add to Source Control dialogs have been improved to be easier to use and more scalable. Drag & Drop from Windows Explorer to add to Source Control....

May 13, 2008 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Extreme Programming Club Meeting

14 May UPDATE - Due t illness the speaker cannot make it , so this session is being rescheduled to next month. Check the XP Club site for what is on in its place Remember tomorrow is monthly meeting of the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds. The session is by Chris Mills a developer relations manager for development for the Opera Browser.

May 13, 2008 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Developer Day Scotland

Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful. The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site. There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation on the Extreme Programming Club site. The noticeable difference at this event from DDD in Reading was what was going on at lunch time....

May 11, 2008 · 1 min · Richard Fennell