(Perhaps I should grow a beard and wait another fifteen years before blogging this :-) Fujitsu have been doing some fantastic work on language support that has been underappreciated by Microsoft, and they've just released a new version of their...

Eric Gunnerson points out this hilarious set of movies featuring the characters from Halo.

I'm delivering a webcast later today on developing .NET assemblies, if anyone's interested. You can enroll to attend here ; if you've already enrolled, you can download the slides from the webcast here . The session covers the following topics...

I'm presuming most of you have spotted the free book promotion on the Microsoft Reader site now, but if not, go visit the site now ! This really is something for nothing, as the saying goes - at first I presumed rather cynically that it would only...

If you're bored with the manufactured rubbish that passes for popular music these days, you really should try the most surprising mix of music you'll ever hear: Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 , Monday to Thursday nights from 10:15pm. Late Junction describes...

We're currently going through the process of planning this year's UK developer events . We run over 30 free developer seminars a year in our Reading and London offices, along with roadshows, product launches, and developer conferences - and that's...

Just been posted - a technical preview of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 . If you haven't come across WSE before, it's a package that provides support for new and emerging web service standards such as WS-Security , WS-Transaction and WS...

Just been listening to a fascinating programme on Radio 4 whilst travelling between offices, which coincidentally managed to follow on exactly from to something I was musing about last night. Western music has twelve notes in each octave, as is well...

A belated entry to the world of blogging. My name is Tim Sneath, and I'm a developer at Microsoft in the UK Developer & Platform Engineering group. As a group, our focus is to help developers and architects adopt emerging technologies such as the...