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June 2008 - Posts

Monday, June 30, 2008 7:46 PM

Silverlight bits and bobs - beta 2, full trust, mobile, showcase

Silverlight continues to be a hot topic in our meetings with ISVs. The following is a fairly random set of links that have been helpful in one way or another in those architectural discussions: How to make a full trust Silverlight application running
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Monday, June 30, 2008 7:26 PM

And now...the end is near...

In the MSDN Flash June 25th issue my colleague Mike gave his farewell. His mention of a typewriter has inadvertently reminded me of a great story from my early days of playing around with computers - but I will save that for "Editor's Intro"
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Monday, June 30, 2008 7:05 PM

ReMix UK 08 - Brighton 18th and 19th of September

No agenda, no speakers - but you can register now as an early bird :-) I am certainly going to be involved in my new role. Hope to see some of you there. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/default.aspx
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Monday, June 30, 2008 6:58 PM

Eric will be appearing in person...

I have created a page with my future "gigs" listed - all an opportunity to see some Visual Basic, chuckle when I add a semicolon and pull me up on it if I do C# from start to finish :-) For the moment it is just a simple list but it is crying
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Monday, June 30, 2008 5:00 PM

A glimpse inside our new Data Centers

Caught my eye. An article on our new $550million Data Centers. Handy when your strategy is Software + Services (lots of them!) :-) http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403723
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:49 PM

Silverlight Deepzoom in the wild

Silverlight Deepzoom has come up in a number of ISV meetings through June - and it is sparking new thinking. Check out these to see if you too will be inspired to come up with a great use for Deepzoom. http://www.laguna-coupe.com/   http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:41 PM

Free Mini-SPA July 11th in the UK

No, not something you sit down in and be pampered. Well technically you do... SPA2008 is a great multi day conference and each year they take the best sessions and make them into a free 1 day taster. Highly recommended (if you fancy a chance to mingle
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:32 PM

Hyper-V - looking good...

I sit in a group made up of devs (and ex-devs) and infrastructure folks. While "my half" looks forward to new releases of the .NET Framework the other half seem to get all excited about stuff without an API - surely everything has an API!? They
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:14 PM

Still confused by Data Mining? (I know I am)

Which is why I thought I would point you at this great video resource. You may well get to use it before I do (I think I have my hands full learning to code again - but I have started to skim them). These sessions were presented to 20 Countries across
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Friday, June 20, 2008 2:31 PM

Top 5 questions in my last year working with ISV early adopters

As I get ready to transition role, I find myself increasingly thinking "what happened in the last 12 months that would be useful to take into the next 12 months". One of the great bits about my current role is I spend a lot of time 1:1 in day
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:23 AM

Oh blimey - is this me?

Some great piccies form Fest08 are up on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/blowdart/sets/72157605564840345/ (thanks) I am in far too many as I gave out awards. I need to get the chin removed, the tummy tucked and change my barber – which has been
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 10:06 AM

Obfuscation - and pesky strings

A friend of a friend asked "When .NET code is compiled a program called Reflector can be used to decompile the binary file in to its original code. I understand there are tools called Obfuscators that will make the code harder to read, but it can
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:48 AM

NxtGenUG Fest08 simply rocked!!!

I really enjoyed last Thursday - what a fantastic event. There were plenty of great sessions throughout the day, huge amounts of fun and lots of top people to chat with during breaks etc. I only wish I could have freed up more of my day to stay in the
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:38 AM

FREE UK Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 training 19th/20th June - SOLD OUT

Updated 4:58pm: Thanks all - now SOLD OUT. We have a 2 day session next week for our ISV early adopters. I checked last night and after some cancellations we have free slots. This should be a great session and it would be a terrible waste to have empty
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:24 AM

Maybe see you at NxtGenUG Fest08 in Reading on Thursday 12th?

I love to put faces to names (not least because I am terrible with names but pretty decent with faces!). I am doing a short 10minute intro as part of the keynote of Fest08 tomorrow and hope to work in the back of the room as much as possible during the
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:04 PM

VB6 migrations - two interviews for your enjoyment

Over on my other blog I just posted two short interviews I did with Roberto (CEO of Artinsoft) and William (Lead Architect in Logica UK). Enjoy.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:29 PM

Software Architect 2008 - links from my session

This week I presented at Software Architect 2008 and I promised to share relevant links. Here goes. The three demos I showed were of the following technologies SQL Server Data Services ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework I also showed Silverlight
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:21 PM

Visual Basic remains incredibly popular - but don't just take my word for it

I see in my travels lots of developers using C# - but I also see plenty doing Visual Basic .NET, just not quite as many. I have been attempting to get a better feel for just how many folks are using which - and have been using highly scientific techniques
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:38 AM

No Internet!? Camtasia to the rescue

I am glad I decided to attend Software Architect 2008 the day before my session. Why? Simple - there is no Internet access in the room and I planned to show a number of demos which require access. These included Woodgrove Bank Silverlight demonstrator,
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Monday, June 02, 2008 3:52 PM

Maybe see you at Software Architect 2008?

This week I am presenting at Software Architect 2008 on the Wednesday . I really enjoyed presenting/attending this conference last year and I am looking forward to spending most of the next 3 days at the conference. If you should see me around, do say
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