Silverlight continues to be a hot topic in our meetings with ISVs. The following is a fairly random set of links that have been helpful in one way or another in those architectural discussions: How to make a full trust Silverlight application running...

In the MSDN Flash June 25th issue my colleague Mike gave his farewell. His mention of a typewriter has inadvertently reminded me of a great story from my early days of playing around with computers - but I will save that for "Editor's Intro"...

No agenda, no speakers - but you can register now as an early bird :-) I am certainly going to be involved in my new role. Hope to see some of you there. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/default.aspx

I have created a page with my future "gigs" listed - all an opportunity to see some Visual Basic, chuckle when I add a semicolon and pull me up on it if I do C# from start to finish :-) For the moment it is just a simple list but it is crying...

Caught my eye. An article on our new $550million Data Centers. Handy when your strategy is Software + Services (lots of them!) :-) http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403723

Silverlight Deepzoom has come up in a number of ISV meetings through June - and it is sparking new thinking. Check out these to see if you too will be inspired to come up with a great use for Deepzoom. http://www.laguna-coupe.com/   http://memorabilia...

No, not something you sit down in and be pampered. Well technically you do... SPA2008 is a great multi day conference and each year they take the best sessions and make them into a free 1 day taster. Highly recommended (if you fancy a chance to mingle...

I sit in a group made up of devs (and ex-devs) and infrastructure folks. While "my half" looks forward to new releases of the .NET Framework the other half seem to get all excited about stuff without an API - surely everything has an API!? They...

Which is why I thought I would point you at this great video resource. You may well get to use it before I do (I think I have my hands full learning to code again - but I have started to skim them). These sessions were presented to 20 Countries across...

As I get ready to transition role, I find myself increasingly thinking "what happened in the last 12 months that would be useful to take into the next 12 months". One of the great bits about my current role is I spend a lot of time 1:1 in day...

Some great piccies form Fest08 are up on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/blowdart/sets/72157605564840345/ (thanks) I am in far too many as I gave out awards. I need to get the chin removed, the tummy tucked and change my barber – which has been...

A friend of a friend asked "When .NET code is compiled a program called Reflector can be used to decompile the binary file in to its original code. I understand there are tools called Obfuscators that will make the code harder to read, but it can...

I really enjoyed last Thursday - what a fantastic event. There were plenty of great sessions throughout the day, huge amounts of fun and lots of top people to chat with during breaks etc. I only wish I could have freed up more of my day to stay in the...

Updated 4:58pm: Thanks all - now SOLD OUT. We have a 2 day session next week for our ISV early adopters. I checked last night and after some cancellations we have free slots. This should be a great session and it would be a terrible waste to have empty...

I love to put faces to names (not least because I am terrible with names but pretty decent with faces!). I am doing a short 10minute intro as part of the keynote of Fest08 tomorrow and hope to work in the back of the room as much as possible during the...

Over on my other blog I just posted two short interviews I did with Roberto (CEO of Artinsoft) and William (Lead Architect in Logica UK). Enjoy.

This week I presented at Software Architect 2008 and I promised to share relevant links. Here goes. The three demos I showed were of the following technologies SQL Server Data Services ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework I also showed Silverlight...

I see in my travels lots of developers using C# - but I also see plenty doing Visual Basic .NET, just not quite as many. I have been attempting to get a better feel for just how many folks are using which - and have been using highly scientific techniques...

I am glad I decided to attend Software Architect 2008 the day before my session. Why? Simple - there is no Internet access in the room and I planned to show a number of demos which require access. These included Woodgrove Bank Silverlight demonstrator...

This week I am presenting at Software Architect 2008 on the Wednesday . I really enjoyed presenting/attending this conference last year and I am looking forward to spending most of the next 3 days at the conference. If you should see me around, do say...