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So I (somewhat foolishly, I suspect given my overall fitness) decided to sign up to do the London to Brighton cycle ride . It's Europe's biggest and best fund raising cycling event, with 27,000 people taking part each year. It's 56 miles in aid of the...
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Tesco opens up another front on the green supermarket war today, by announcing that products will now be labelled with their individual carbon footprint. Tesco are hot on the heels of Marks and Spencer who stole a march on their rivals to...
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Just came across a nasty gotcha today, where by we were trying to use the new C# 3.5 syntax var x = from item in items select new Item { ItemName = item.Name }; and getting a compile error. Turns out this was due to the need to have the following using...
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As a Business Analyst I spend a significant proportion of my time working with both business and IT stakeholders to understand, document and then manage large volumes of complex and often ever changing requirements. Managing these requirements in an uncertain...
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I've been wrestling with MDX in PerformancePoint today and was attempting to do something that I thought would be pretty simple. Work out what is the current quarter. No amount of googling turned anything up either. It took me a while to figure out so...
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There have been beers arranged following the Altnet conference Conchango hosted ealier in the year. It is on Thursday 15th May @ 8:30 in: The Crown Pub Sekforde Street London , England EC1R Check out Seb's blog for more info. Add yourself to the yahoo...
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5p for Carrier bags, good for the environment and good for business... Today, Marks & Spencer begin charging 5p for food carrier bags. That's good for the environment because alongside the reduction in plastic that will be sent to landfill,...
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According to Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, quoted today in this article from the Guardian , CCTV ain't working. The problem appears to be two-fold: 1) the authorities don't have any plan for how to use footage generated from cameras 2) camera's...
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SSIS uses absolute paths to point to objects on the file system. What does that mean? In short it means that in order to point to a file I would have to use the full absolute path, I couldn't give a path that is relative to where the packages resides....
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If you're creating a DeepZoom collection in Silverlight 2 , you will at some point have to get a massive amount of files into a web server's filesystem. What DeepZoom Composer does is crunch source images into tiny tiles of images that are then intelligently...
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When a retailer's business hits the rocks, everyone and his dog has an opinion. It's a rare industry whose dirty laundry is so publicly aired as that of high street retail. The announcement earlier this month that Ethel Austin was to go into administration,...
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SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) and Live Mesh are the two technologies that are uppermost in my mind at the moment. [My thoughts on SSDS are here and on Live Mesh here .] Hence then it didn't take me long to start wondering about the value of the two...
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InfoQ recently featured an interview with Joseph Pelrine . Joseph has done a good deal to facilitate my journey into Agile and Scrum and for this I am very grateful. He trained me on Australia's first Certified ScrumMaster course in February 2005 and...
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After many stories of laptops going missing with sensitive Government information, it is mildly amusing to hear that in Italy the outgoing Government there actually published the declared earnings of each individual including tax liabilities on a website....
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Over some period of time I’ve got tired of installing Fab. 40 templates solutions over and over again. The time had come to write a script that allows for faster installation. This script will only install solutions associated with Fab 40 package,...
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It's not often that I get a newsletter from Janet in Kansas, but when I do, she never fails to lift my spirits. I don't know her personally. I brought a vintage sewing pattern from her website once. Janet has a style that's all her own. Her site may look...
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Sitting in traffic the other week, staring aimlessly out of the window I took in the following scene... It made me chuckle and reach for my phone...'Finest' and 'Under New Management' - still not convinced I will be walking through those rather rickety...
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"As the Web evolves from its one-way, 'search and retrieve' paradigm into a medium that's more like an unending conversation, browser software will have to evolve with it. Flock is showing the way." Arik Hesseldahl - Businessweek I think I would have...
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I just love this kind of attention and dedication to detail, and the likelihood that 99.9% of people won't even notice it: "Spiritualized's Jason Pierce cut several minutes off his album Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space just so that the running...
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As some of our users have been aware there are some issues when doing an in-place upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2008 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. We are sorry that this issue has arisen and have been working on a fix, I am now pleased to say...
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Conchango recently hosted a Retail Business Intelligence Seminar, which was attended by many of the UK's leading retailers. The format of the day was a number of presentations and some round table discussions on topics that had been selected by...
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OK, so here it is, my first blog entry. My first bold steps into committing my random musings to the vast annals of cyberspace forever. So what to talk about? I considered many topics, the only caveat I had was that it must include the words Java, j2ee...
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I know it's been around for a while now, and I have turned up late to the party, but what a cracking little book John Maeda's 'The Laws of Simplicity' is. Despite being a slim volume (about 100 pages), readable in a couple of hours, it gives the impression...
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Ok, a promise is a promise so here goes... Seems there is a big push to get those of us who are not blogging doing so, and those already blogging doing more of it. If you think about the amount of man hours involved in us all spending just 10 minutes...
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It seems to me that over the years, organisations have responded to both the increasing complexity of projects and their dismal success rate by heaping on: more processes and tools, loads of documentation, tighter and tighter contracts, and detailed plans...
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