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

Simon Brown founded http://www.codingthearchitecture.com/ which is a great site for developers moving into the world of Software Architecture. I had a chance to catch up with him at DevWeek in London and we chatted about the session he was delivering...

I had a chance to catch up with Richard, founder of http://www.rocksolidknowledge.com/ , at DevWeek in London. He had been speaking on Workflow 4.0 using the Visual Studio 2010 CTP and (despite that) was sounding very positive about the future of Workflow...

In March 2009 I presented on Entity Framework V1 and a little V2 at DevWeek 2009 . MikeT caught me on camera while I was there. I have (rather embarrassingly) only just got round to publishing the video. Ultimately I run out of excuses and was only left...

In my “work role” I often speak at events/conferences but I rarely get to just be an attendee soaking up the information from other speakers. This Saturday is the latter though. I am heading down to Taunton (a little over an hour for me) to attend http...

Monday 18th 2009 will be remembered as the day I successfully took on a rootkit virus on the main TV (MCE 2005) and won AND when I (and lots of other MSDN Subscribers) got their hands on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. It is available for download now to subscribers...

This is the second pilot podcast to accompany the fortnightly MSDN Flash newsletter (Check out Pilot Show 1 ) I am working through issues around getting the best quality for recording (both of myself and folks I interview), deciding which tools to use...

I have just put together the poll for next weeks MSDN Flash thanks to a suggestion by http://twitter.com/philpursglove . We have had an explosion of viable storage technologies for Windows development over the last 12months, both for traditional OnPremise...

I am one of those developers who has become very smitten with Ruby of late. I was therefore extremely pleased to stumble across a bunch of screencasts on Ruby, Python and the DLR, oddly “hidden away” in the Overview section of “.NET Framework 3.5: Create...

I have started talking to developers about what they can expect in Entity Framework V2 such as in my session at DevWeek 2009 (Check out the slides and links ). Folks have liked what they have heard and are keen to get more detail. The good news is the...

[Warning – this is shamelessly taken from the documentation but I felt it deserved a wider viewing] Yesterday I delivered a session on the new parallel capabilities of .NET 4.0 (see slides and links ). I also managed to slip in a little section at the...

I delivered a session on parallel at NxtGenUg Birmingham last night. As well as covering the new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 I also gave a heads up on Axum , an incubator project for a new programming language for parallel development...

I have been blogging about compatibility of late and this week will be in a Windows 7 Compatibility Lab with Dave Allen (who I interviewed ). Customers are rightly concerned about compatibility when rolling out a new Operating System release. It is important...

Had a great time on Tuesday (5th May 2009) at NxtGenUG in Oxford. A very friendly crowd, a fun user group and great to watch the banter between Alex and Barry first hand, rather than over twitter  :-) I also won a rubber duck – which justifies working...

I gave an update on SQL Data Services at DDD Scotland on Saturday (2nd May 2009). The deck was very similar to this one I gave at DevWeek which is already hosted on Slideshare. The final deck will be on the DDD Scotland site in due course. In the meantime...

I’m very pleased to see that DataDirect have a beta of their Connect for ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle which now adds support for he ADO.NET Entity Framework. Still in Beta (1st may 2009) and available for download . Enjoy (and feedback...