This podcast accompanies the June 17th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes a twenty minute interview with Sara Ford, the Program Manager of codeplex.com , Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. We discuss her famous Visual Studio...

I am 41. I started developing software when I was 12 using a Sinclair ZX80 . That means I have been developing software for … 29 years!! (Do I get an award of some kind when I get to 30?). I also was a very good developer – but you will just have to take...

I had an opportunity to catch up with UK Software Startup IPrinciples . IPrinciples specialises in building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on the Microsoft Platform, predominantly using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) but also using Silverlight...

ADVERT ALERT but hopefully a useful one … Don’t delay, buy today! And that ends my attempt at marketing and coming up with catchy slogans. What do you mean, it has been used before! :-( More seriously, I just got confirmation that some great offers put...

The third Three Men and a Whiteboard , also known as “The one where we forgot about the 10 minute rule of YouTube again” – hence it comes in two parts :-) In part one, the Whiteboard sees no action as it remains a discussion on where Windows Azure fits...

The second Three Men and a Whiteboard , also knows as “The one where Mike T strums his guitar” or “The one where the video of Eric was stolen”.

The first Three Men and a Whiteboard session we ever recorded. Possibly the best :-) Also known as “The one with the squeaky voices” :-)

As the technical editor for the UK MSDN Flash I get surprisingly free rein to decide what content to place in it . I suspect one day they will notice – but I will enjoy it while it lasts. Every 3 months or so I do a special edition of the Flash, and this...

Had a great time Wednesday night delivering a session on Azure and SQL Data Services at GL.NET . Admittedly I run over hugely but I enjoyed it and I much prefer lots of questions along the way. The venue is very good. The MessageLabs offices offer a pretty...

I have a couple of days leave coming, hence the early poll to accompany the Flash next week. I bumped into an old colleague who now has a six monitor setup in his home for developing software – which made my “notebook + 19inch monitor” setup look a little...

This is the third podcast pilot to accompany the fortnightly MSDN Flash newsletter. This is an example of a “bonus edition” which we will from time to time interleave with the regular fortnightly podcasts. The good news is we now have a permanent subscription...

After attending DDD SouthWest I went on a weeks holiday before I got a chance to blog out a “thank you” for a great event. Guy Smith-Ferrier and his team did a stirling job deliver a great multi-track event. For me it was: Extremely well organised Good...

I have been sitting on a long list of part finished posts on Visual Basic “stuff” intended for my other blog http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100/ . Last week I finally started to finish them and get them published. Enjoy. Virtualization and Visual Basic 6.0...

Back in March I presented at Qcon 2009 in London which is a great conference although I had a little moan ( Does Microsoft smell ?). I also was interviewed which is now up on InfoQ. TBH – it isn’t a bad interview yet at the time it felt awful right from...

Back in February we did our first special edition of the UK MSDN Flash focused on Free Software for developers (Which was our most popular edition for years!). The next special edition will be June 17th and the focus will be Open Source Software for developers...

Just about finished putting together my session for the FOWA tour in Bristol . I have only 50minutes. Which means I need to speak fast + demo fast + … remove some slides by 9:30 tomorrow :-) Slides: Windows Azure - Ericnel View more OpenOffice presentations...

The topic this time around is “How interested are you in User Interface design?”. This poll came about after a visit to a local (Bath, UK) software startup which has at least as many user interface designers as developers which made me realise just how...