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Friday, September 11, 2009 9:14 AM

More happy is coming

Cute :)
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Monday, June 08, 2009 11:20 AM

Suggestions so far for UK MSDN Flash Special Edition on Open Source Software for developers

Back in February we did our first special edition of the UK MSDN Flash focused on Free Software for developers (Which was our most popular edition for years!). The next special edition will be June 17th and the focus will be Open Source Software for developers
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Monday, April 27, 2009 11:24 PM

Dependency Inversion Principle from SOLID – in a picture :-)

I started reading into the SOLID Principles in March bit didn’t get very far before I moved on to do some other stuff (sound familiar?). Then today I stumble across a site with a bunch of motivational pictures based on the SOLID Principles and I have
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:22 PM

Just back from holiday… and great “I’m a PC” adverts :-)

I spent last week enjoying the sun (and rain and wind and fog) in Yorkshire and managed to pretty much avoid email/work all week which was great. I did manage a little “evangelism” during the week though. My dad has an old compaq notebook which has been
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:05 PM

How much does Team Foundation Server REALLY cost vs SourceSafe?

I was discussing with one of our TFS specialists the costs of going down the route of Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server – specifically in the context of comparing it with purchasing Visual SourceSafe (VSS). This conversation was kicked
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:30 PM

My thoughts post Devweek 2009. Or rather my one thought – Ruby Rocks

Devweek is my fave multi-day developer conference in the UK and attracts great speakers such as Aaron Skonnard , Neal Ford and Tim Ewald. Which is why I always feel a little humble that I get the chance to present there. This time around I delivered three
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:04 PM

MSDN Library Low Bandwidth Option

While chatting with Tim Ewald last week at Devweek we got onto the topic of “ways to improve the MSDN experience” (Tim sits in that team). Part of that discussion was the “Low Bandwith” option for MSDN which has been around for many months. What I had
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:48 PM

This blog is being brought out of mothballs

Well, it sort of is :-) Eight weeks ago I made my primary blog http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/ for a variety of reasons . I have no plans to change that as geekswithblogs.net is a great service. However I always had at the back of my mind the intention
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:07 PM

Live Mesh is my best friend, mostly! (and solution to “Request to MOE Failed”)

[This blog is moving to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable ] I have just had a 2 hour battle with Live Mesh which has reminded me just how much I have come to rely on Live Mesh in my day to day life and how well it normally works (It gets the “It just
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Friday, January 23, 2009 4:52 PM

Short UK developer survey to complete

I previously posted on the VB6.0 survey for UK companies which has a great prize of four days of Visual Basic 2008 training. We do have a second (even shorter) survey which will help us plan for FY10 (which starts July 1st for Microsoft). From the MSDN
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:39 PM

Survey on the usage of Visual Basic 6.0 in UK companies – and maybe win a £1640 prize!

[Survey is live from January 21st to January 26th, 2009] I have been working with my marketing colleague Sarah to create a survey to better understand the current reliance on Visual Basic 6.0 in the UK and what plans companies have to move to .NET (or
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:50 PM

This blog is moving to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable … but not yet

Just to give you a “warning” that I plan to move over to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable by the end of January 2009 as I explain here . No panic though – this site is still live for the moment AND will not be deleted.
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Monday, January 12, 2009 2:13 PM

What is in your head?

I previously posted on my “technology themes for 2009” – well, for an internal thing I created a “What is in my head in 2009?” slide in PowerPoint 2007 using SmartArt. My colleague MikeT immediately commented that it was missing bacon butties and online
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:33 PM

I am 1 hour away from having the Windows 7 Beta :-)

The “network download gods” are being nice to me and I am 1 hour away from having the ISO of Windows 7 Beta from MSDN Subscriber Downloads (subscription required). It will be more generally available on the 9th if you do not have a subscription. Enjoy
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Friday, January 02, 2009 3:03 PM

Happy 2009! (and a spot of retail therapy)

Hi all, I am just back from two weeks holiday. My spirits are high. I am looking forward to getting stuck into lots of new projects and ideas for 2009. There is oodles of technology to play with. I have some great chrimbo presents that still need my attention
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