Today was the first fully packed schedule. Lots of notes still to write up but here’s a quick overview of what happened.
First off I went into the Building Rich Web Applications using Silverlight 2 session. Kathy introduced a 200 level session on what kinds of things Silverlight 2 can do over Silverlight. The answer [...]
As we were ushered in to an imposing auditorium It seemed the three DJs and VJ were entertaining a lonely, featured HP server rack on stage.
Having a tiny special ‘Early Bird’ section down the front did seem a little pointless when I’d hazard a guess that well over 70% of delegates would’ve been signing up for [...]
The task: to have an automated build process which would take the fresh built files and deploy them on a remote web server.
The challenge: the remote web server was not in the same domain as the machine with Team Build on it.
Initial research found plenty of helpful advice on how to do a [...]
In a change to normal development activities, this afternoon saw us do a bit of last minute preparation for a triathlon that Esendex is the headline sponsor for. It will, I guess, be business as usual on Sunday too for the Esendex Last Minute Sprint at Southwell with both Adam and
If you use Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) a lot then you might be interested in an option that’s not available via the GUI. ‘Smart Sizing’ allows you to scale the screen to the size of the RDC window rather than the default option where the remote desktop gets cropped.
If you open a new [...]
We’ve just been writing some new exceptions based initially on an abstract Exception class. When the attempt to write a catch statement to catch all exceptions which inherited from this abstract base class it wasn’t behaving as expected.
The gotcha here is that C#/.NET doesn’t allow you to catch exceptions from an abstract class. If [...]
So have you had chance to see Microsoft’s (supposed) answer to Apple’s excellent Get A Mac adverts yet?
Well in case not, I’ve included it after the break. So I get the fact its got people talking because its obtuse, I get the fact that its not tying them to advertising one product but [...]
In case you’ve not yet realised the business benefits of using SMS, then maybe this story from Ireland will help convince you.
The Irish Times wrote a story last Thursday about how an air traffic controller used SMS to guide a plane down safely.
He then lost audio telephone contact but the [...]
Apparently this coffee is elephant powered. Well, made with Elephant Beans anyway.
Unlike that Kopi Luha (sp) whose beans have passed through the digestive system of a wild cat, I’m hoping these haven’t been fished out of some dung. I jest of course as it refers to the size of the beans.
It [...]
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TechEd : Day 1
Greetings from Barcelona. Today started in the afternoon with the keynote speech from Jason Zander which has introduced new functionality in Visual Studio 2010. A very honest bloke who was brave enough to demo us Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7. Not just taking the safety off, but practically taking the tightrope away as well.
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