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PsiSpace by Simon Middlemiss
Skype for Windows Phone (beta) has shipped
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over 1 year ago
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The product I’ve been working on for the past 6 months has shipped to beta on the Windows Phone Marketplace! It’s been a great project to work on and I am really proud of everything we’ve done. Working with the Skype team in Stockholm has been a...
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Personal Kanban
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over 2 years ago
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We’ve been getting serious about using Kanban recently so I thought I’d try and take the concept home. It’s been surprisingly successful actually. I cleaned the front of the fridge up, separated it in to three vertical and two horizontal swim...
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Eye On Earth update
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over 3 years ago
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So, we’ve just released an update to Eye On Earth that adds in Birdseye support, the new style Bing Maps navigation controls and also moves the system to the latest release of the Windows Azure SDK. Check it out http://www.eyeonearth.eu The new...
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AmbiguousMatchException : Why extending Silverlight through sub-classing might result in this error.
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over 3 years ago
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Earlier this week we spotted we had a problem with a Silverlight application that has been live for a while. We were only able to reproduce it with the Silverlight 4 runtime installed and not the Silverlight 3 runtime. The reason is actually...
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Microsoft Consulting Services Solutions Development Blog
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over 3 years ago
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The practice I belong to in MCS, Solutions Development, has started its own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mcsuksoldev ( rss ). I’ve written several posts for that blog already and thought I’d list them here so as to help drive traffic! Keep your Eye On...
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Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC1 on XP SP3
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over 3 years ago
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I came across an interesting issue with VS2010 RC1 on XP SP3 the other day. I'm on a customer site and it affects all of their machines. When you tried to install Visual Studio the installed would just crash and exit. I narrowed this down to Data Execution...
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Access denied to TFSTemp during a TeamBuild TFS Get operation
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over 3 years ago
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If you ever see something like the below Done executing task "Get" -- FAILED. Done building target "CoreGet" in project "TFSBuild.proj" -- FAILED. Done Building Project "d:\builds\BuildType\TFSBuild.proj" (EndToEndIteration target(s)) -- FAILED. Build...
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Team Build and Azure
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over 4 years ago
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I’m a big fan of Team Build, it keeps the project rhythm going and without it there is no real way of knowing that the code people are checking in works. It was therefore an easy choice to decide to use it on my current project. Normally it does...
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Please sponsor me for a walk I didn't know I was doing!
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over 4 years ago
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So, My wife sent me an email about 6 weeks ago about the sponsored walk she’s doing next weekend to raise awareness / cash for the charity which she is the founder and chairperson of . Since she’s my wife and I’m already sponsoring her and helping...
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Unify for Expression Blend 2
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over 5 years ago
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Since the Blend Add-In framework came to light I’ve written a couple of utilities that are useful when using Blend, however I found it annoying that I had to close down Blend and re-open it from the command line with different arguments. To get around...
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Publishing WCF web services for Silverlight.
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over 5 years ago
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As a self-confessed crayon wielder I tend not to get involved in the washing machine technology of web services. I am normally a consumer only and when I do have to write a web service it has only been part of prototypes or proof's of concept. The...
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Using ASP.NET to help Fibromyalgia sufferers.
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over 5 years ago
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It's been a really long time since I did any ASP.NET development (about 2 years) and a lot really has changed over that time! As I've posted about before, my wife has a chronic condition called Fibromyalgia (Fibro) for which there isn't a lot of...
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Calling all UK Developers - We're hiring!
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over 5 years ago
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The group I work in, Delivery Developer, are, along with others, hiring. We are looking for developers and leads with excellent consulting skills, a passion for Microsoft technology and drive and determination to deliver successful cutting edge...
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Tommy the Tungsten Robot
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over 5 years ago
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Through a friend of mine I have learned that someone I used to know at university has released a short comedy film about an abandoned robot to promote his production company. It's very well made and I laughed lots. Go watch!
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Don't install the latest BBC iPlayer update.
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over 5 years ago
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FYI I just started up the BBC iPlayer hoping to get the latest episode of Torchwood and it very nicely asked me if I wanted to install the latest update. Having done so the client no longer starts and it doesn't look like I am the only one .
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BETT 2008
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over 5 years ago
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So one of my New Year's resolutions was to blog more. This is something that is remarkably hard to do being part of Services as much of what we do is for customers and so is bound by non-disclosure and IP agreements. However, the project I've just...
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Diamond
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over 5 years ago
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A friend of mine from university, Dr Mark Basham is a data acquisition scientist at the Diamond Light Source , a 3rd generation synchrotron, built at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. As a physics graduate myself I've been itching...
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Yellow and Black Ball and Auction
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over 5 years ago
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My wife and I are organising a ‘Yellow and Black Ball’ and Charity Auction to raise awareness for a debilitating neurological condition, which my wife suffers from, called ‘Fibromyalgia’. It affects between 1.2 and 2.7 million...
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T5M : A cool Silverlight 1.0 site
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over 6 years ago
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www.t5m.com I've been working on this site for the past 3 months and it went into beta last night. Watch this space for more details!!
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Check-in fails due to locked file when no files are locked on TFS
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over 6 years ago
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We've seen this issue a couple of times with the project I'm on currently. When I saw it the cause seemed to be that I'd added a folder and then moved or renamed it before checking in, although I don't know if this is true in all cases. If you see...
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Step in a little deeper
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over 6 years ago
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Yesterday Microsoft announced that it is releasing the source code for .NET Framework libraries under the Microsoft Reference License. More importantly (to developers anyway) is that a new feature of Visual Studio 2008 will allow debugging not only into...
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Back at Cowes
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over 6 years ago
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So it's the end of Skandia Cowes Week 2007 , and the fact that I'm only blogging now means it's been busier than I expected. I've only done some minor changes this year, fixed bugs, completely re-skinned the UI and replaced the data layer with Linq-to...
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Living with a Tablet
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over 6 years ago
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I've had RSI for the better part of 3 years and have been trying to find a way of reducing the strain on my wrist. Doing this would both reduce the pain I am in daily and increase my productivity. I've always wondered whether a Tablet PC would aid in...
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Windows/SQL/VS 2OO8 Ship dates announced
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over 6 years ago
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Somasegar has just posted about the launch of the next generation of Microsoft server technologies. [Microsoft] will be jointly launching Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles on February 27, 2008. [W]e are still aiming...
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Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.
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over 6 years ago
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I spent the weekend struggling with that error. It occurs on the final page of the Windows Vista install wizard; where you select the disk partition to install Windows on. If you too have struggling with this issue then you'll probably have also come...
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