SQLbits is a great conference. This time around there is three distinct days and it happens to be taking place in my part of the world, just “over the bridge” in Wales at the marvellous Celtic Manor (which feels very American – in a good way). Training...

[UPDATE 27/8/09 14:51: The hoster is back up - stick with Itunes and the RSS feed in the original posts] Yesterday I posted two podcasts on XAF (show 008) with Gary Short and ASP.NET 4.0 (show 007) with Mike Ormond . No doubt because of my enormous...

This podcast is an interview with Gary Short in which we discuss the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework™ (XAF) for quickly building WebForm and WinForm applications. Along the way we manage to mention testing frameworks, home-grown source control, rabbits...

This podcast accompanies the August 12th, 2009 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes an interview with Mike Ormond discussing the new stuff in ASP.NET 4.0 plus an opportunity to ask Mike “Which are you? MVC or WebForms?”. Other areas discussed...

Last weekend (August 1st and 2nd 2009) I went into London to attend the Alt.NET UK Conference or more specifically two separate but related days. This was my first ever Alt.NET conference and I absolutely loved it. It was exciting to be around so many...

It is 9 years since Joel Spolsky created “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code”. I thought it fitting to make a poll around it for the August 12th edition of the UK Flash (and a big thanks to @rammesses for the initial suggestion). There is a little...

A few years back I was the technical owner for SQL Server 2005 readiness in the UK with Independent Software Vendors. One of the things we did at the time was put together a detailed catalogue of UK developed applications that worked great with SQL Server...