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With the advent of Silverlight we are going to see more and more web delivered applications. A good example of what we can expect is the Microsoft HEROES happen {here} virtual launch site. If you did not make it to the event it is well worth a look with all the slides and videos of the sessions. This site does makes heavy use of multimedia and it is maybe just me but I find it hard to find things, it look great but I don’t like having to guess where the menu might be....

I see there has been a release of the VSTS Scrum Process Template for VS2008 on CodePlex, so adding a way to run Scrum projects with the current release of TFS without the fiddling required for eScrum. It looks good, but is missing for me the best part of eScrum, the web site that allows quick updating of the Scrum project without the need for Visual Studio. If you are going to be doing Scrum you don’t want to having to spend loads of time on the electronic scrum board administration....

Join the surreal world of Barry Dorrans on DNR - if you listen long enough you could even hear something about Cardspace.

I have been trying to install the Feb CTP of SQL 2008 on an Virtual PC, but kept getting the following error SQL Server Browser Install for feature ‘SQL_Browser_Redist_SqlBrowser_Cpu32’ failed with exception System.InvalidOperationException: This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified. Turns out the problem was that I had run SysInterals NewSID on the VPC as it was based on a diff disk off our standard W2K3 test install and I wanted it not to clash with other test installs....

I will be speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference in early April on the Business Intelligence features in SQL 2008. I also just found out my Continuous Integration session at Developer Day Scotland has been successful in the vote, thanks to everyone who voted for it.