I spent today at DDD8 and was really impressed with the level of content and the quality of the speakers. This is an event run by and for the community. It takes place in the Microsoft UK offices, but is not an MS event (Microsoft speakers are not allowed). For me, the highlights were Gary Short's...

Ben Vincent has blogged an excellent write up of his experiences with the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) toolk it. It’s well worth a read and illustrates how the tool can increase your sites relevance on search engines (and drive traffic to your site). After running the tool Ben’s site ends up...

I love writing code. Sometimes, though, not writing code is even better. Less code written means less to test, less to maintain, less to document etc etc. Ben Vincent, Lead Program Manager for Windows Live Calendar, likes to spend his free time pretending to be a developer ;-) Actually, he's going a...

Isn't it great when you spend all day sat in front of a PC and then get home and get asked to do the same thing? Over the last week I've been helping my wife set up a website designed to keep the residents of our village informed about the Community Plan that is being developed. When she first asked...

At the end of this week Microsoft UK will have one less brilliant developer. Giles Knap and his wife Natasha will be leaving Microsoft to travel around the world. Giles has been instrumental in developing the Solution Build Framework, and much of the SDC Tasks library. He has been dedicated to the...

So, this is my first blog post from Word 2007. I followed Joe’s instructions (recommended to me by Howard ) to get this working. I can’t quite work out how to assign multiple categories to my posts, but apart from that I’m really impressed with Word 2007 and the whole of the Office 2007 suite.

I've just finished watching one of the coolest videos I've seen on Channel9 for a long time. The recently Microsoft Robotics Group were showing off the Microsoft Robotics SDK. These tools allow anyone (hobbiest to commercial developer) to easily create robotic applications. A CTP of the Robotics SDK...