Two UK events that may be of interest to ISVs. Architect Insight Conference 2008 - April The Architect Insight Conference 2008 registration site is now open. This is the third year of the conference and this year we move venue from Wales to England. I...

A reminder of Multi-Tenancy (skip to "Ever been bit?" if you are happy with Multi-tenancy) During the last 12 months I have met with many ISVs to talk about the challenges of SaaS - the move from delivering applications "On-Site" to...

But places are going very fast! From our MSDN Flash (which amazingly some of you don't get! Signup now ) "We are registering IT Pros and Developers via separate URLs, so unless you want to end up in the wrong track, please use the appropriate registration...

I thought a few pics from the technical overview document would make Windows HPC Server feel more real to folks brand new to this area. This post complements my introduction to Windows HPC Server 2008 . A typical Windows HPC Server 2008 Network The Administration...

HPC has never really appeared on my radar before. All this stuff about "Compute Clusters" and "Grid computing" has pretty much passed me by. At least that was true until end of 2007 - when two of my UK Finance ISVs started to get interested...

One of the ISVs I work with is Memba . Memba last year started to beta a file transfer platform to publish, share, send and transfer very large files over the Internet - Velodoc . From that work they went on to create Velodoc XP Edition, a downgraded...

Back in November I blogged about a training offer my US colleagues had struck with Total Training. Our good friends at InnerWorkings contacted me to share some more good news - 10% off their training courses until end of Jan. A couple of my colleagues...

Something odd happened in 2007. I seemed to spend most of the year talking or "projecting" - and very little time standing in front of a whiteboard working through issues and architectures with ISVs. As a result my whiteboard work was getting...

Scott (as usual) does a great job of explaining how simple this is to setup. Once enabled, VS 2008 will download both the symbols and source files on demand from the MSDN reference servers as you debug through the framework code - and even see the developer...

The UK launch of the "big three" will be held in Birmingham on March 19th. I keep getting asked how to register - unfortunately we do not yet have a registration site. We did have a pre-register link but it appears this is now closed (maybe...

2008 looks like a good year to me. Admittedly it didn't start that well - I was ill most of last week and my son returned from his school ski trip with a broken wrist a year on after he broke his leg. Apparently the wrist guards we bought him were "uncomfortable"...

I'm working at home today after a late cancellation by one of my ISVs. I rather like late cancellations - you suddenly "gain a complete day" which in my case I used to: Work through lots of outstanding actions Watch a few technology webcasts...