IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

Visual Studio 2010 will add UML 2.1.1 based modelling tools and diagrams. Many of us have dabbled with UML over the years. For my part I have been trained in it and trained people in the pragmatic application of UML – but have only used it a handful of...

The “network download gods” are being nice to me and I am 1 hour away from having the ISO of Windows 7 Beta from MSDN Subscriber Downloads (subscription required). It will be more generally available on the 9th if you do not have a subscription. Enjoy...

Poll question for the UK MSDN Flash for the 21st of January. Thanks in advance for taking part.  

I previously posted on my “technology themes for 2009” – well, for an internal thing I created a “What is in my head in 2009?” slide in PowerPoint 2007 using SmartArt. My colleague MikeT immediately commented that it was missing bacon butties and online...

I thought it would be useful to start 2009 by briefly summarising what you should expect to find on this blog over the coming months. Data : I will continue to spend time looking at what Microsoft and others are up to around working with data. You should...

I have just seen the internal report on registrations – and we are now down to the last handful of spaces in each venue. Act now if you want to come along and hear about WPF/Silverlight - London (10 th ), Birmingham (12 th ), Edinburgh (24 th ) and Manchester...

My former role was working with ISVs. ISVs get their own site, http://www.isvinnovation.com/ which contains some great online webcasts. If you are a developer and you are new to Azure Services Platform ,then there are five great Webcasts to take a look...

[Survey is live from January 21st to January 26th, 2009] I have been working with my marketing colleague Sarah to create a survey to better understand the current reliance on Visual Basic 6.0 in the UK and what plans companies have to move to .NET (or...

I previously posted on the VB6.0 survey for UK companies which has a great prize of four days of Visual Basic 2008 training. We do have a second (even shorter) survey which will help us plan for FY10 (which starts July 1st for Microsoft). From the MSDN...

Just to give you a “warning” that I plan to move over to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable by the end of January 2009 as I explain here . No panic though – this site is still live for the moment AND will not be deleted.

Yesterday I mentioned I was one hour away from having the Windows 7 Beta . In the end it was 44 minutes (which makes me feel very lucky as I know some folks needed to restart the downloads several times). However “real life” has prevented me actually...

You may recall that my previous role was working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help them explore and adopt the latest technologies from Microsoft. In that role I introduced something called a Technology Roadmap Review . Many years on and...

Hi all, I am just back from two weeks holiday. My spirits are high. I am looking forward to getting stuck into lots of new projects and ideas for 2009. There is oodles of technology to play with. I have some great chrimbo presents that still need my attention...

Good news: “we have decided remove the initial 2.5 million limit on the public beta for the next two weeks (thru January 24th). During that time you will have access to the beta even if the download number exceeds the 2.5 million unit limit.” More information...

[Reminder: This blog is moving to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable ] Over the last couple of months I have been working with Sarah in my group to pull together something which hopefully will help the many companies in the UK who continue to have...