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It was nice to start the day drinking Starbucks in Seattle. It has that feeling of authenticity about it like drinking Boddingtons in Manchester or getting head-butted in Glasgow. Except of course, that Boddingtons is no longer brewed in Manchester since...
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The Silverlight UK User Group #4 will be hosted on Wednesday 5th November . The full agenda is being put together as we speak, so far we are lucky enough to have Tricky who will be giving a Silverlight design level talk. It will either be hosted at the...
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I am very late in coming 'out' on this one but on 1st October was a very special date for me as I was recognised by Microsoft with an MVP Award! I am very privileged to have received this and am naturally thrilled. ...
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I’m at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle and thought it might be worthwhile trying to keep a blog of all the hot news at it unfolds. My record in this area isn’t great – I only managed part one of two parts when I tried to blog about the 3-peaks...
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Last week I gave a quick presentation to my Interactive Media colleagues about, amongst other things, HTML5 - what it may do for us in the future, and what it's already doing now. HTML5 promises a grand future of sophisticated web applications with client-side...
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Thanks to Ian Smith we have a recording of the 3rd Silverlight UK User Group that was hosted by Conchango on Wednesday 1st October. Richard Costall and Pete McGann presented on Silverlight, XNA and Gaming. Part 1 Silverlight UK User Group: Silverlight,...
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I'm back! It’s been a while since my last blog post but reader-pressure has forced me to come out of retirement. Firstly I received an email from Tammy Freeman asking me the following: “One of my tasks at work is to come up with documentation on cost-efficient...
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This entry is more for my own future reference. If you need to update an MS Ajax update panel client side, use the following syntax in your JavaScript. __doPostBack('myUpdatePanel', '') Where 'myUpdatePanel' is the ID of your update panel. You can read...
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Sometimes in life you really come down to earth with a bump! This is what happened to me on the first day of J.P. Boodhoo's recent Nothin But .NET bootcamp in Dusseldorf . I like to think that I've been developing applications in the right way. I've been...
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With the arrival of new generation browsers and HTML 5 (which includes enhanced graphics and multimedia capabilities) people might start thinking that it is a big threat for browser plugins like Flash and thus for developers who live from those technologies....
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We had another meeting on Wednesday, particularly shorter than previous meetings but feature packed nevertheless! Richard Costall and Pete McGann came down from the Midlands and presented "Silverlight, XNA and Gaming"; which was an informative reflection...
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My dear squirrels readers, I was happy to learn yesterday that I have been awarded the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. It's an honor to join the SharePoint MVP team and get in contact with best of the best in the SharePoint community. ...
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I've created a collection of "Getting Started" web casts for the Task Board. These cover the basics of functionality / layout and how to handle bugs and defects. You can view them by following the below links: Select Sprint and filter tasks This guide...
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So I finally conceded defeat and thought it time to embrace Microsoft's software with both hands. I had a fascinating debate at last night's Silverlight user group about why some designers might have been inherently skeptical or slow to adopt the Blend...
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Wow - great fun! I was dev lead on a Proof-of-Concept project for National Rail Enquiries (NRE) at the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) in Reading. Jason Webb (NRE) and I demonstrated it yesterday at a Microsoft TechNet event (I’ll post the...
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Registration is now open for the 11th VBUG annual conference which takes place at Microsoft headquarters in Reading on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th November. The price for VBUG members is £299 and £399 for non-members....
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With the concept of ‘fluid formats’ where consumers / viewers are setting their own viewing schedules for TV programming through the use of Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) like Tivo and Sky+, advertisers have been worried for a while. For a long time,...
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Having discussed the background to advertising & PR - and how advertisers will stop at nothing to win your soul - in part 1, this episode aims to ask how we can become an effective buffer zone between the advertisers and the end user and make life...
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The code below is responsible for setting the status of a Customer by examining various bits of data. public class CustomerProcess { public void UpdateStatus( Customer customer) { bool statusChanged = false ; if (!customer.IsActivated && !customer.IsApproved)...
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In my other blogs entries I mention that I have been looking into building a Team Foundation Server Data Warehouse Adapter. After I got my initial proof of concept version working, I started to extend it to get a list of available builds from TFS and...
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This weekend Conchango cycled to Paris and raised £21,000 (and counting) for Hope and Play . The money will go towards buying laptops, and so far we can get 122. The stats: 220 miles (London to Newhaven, Dieppe to Chantilly, Chantilly to Paris) 3 days...
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I was trying to access my local web service this morning and was getting back the dreaded, generic "Server Application Unavailable" each time I hit the service via my code or browser. For Example: http://localhost/mywebservice/endpoint.svc Resulted...
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Last week saw the release of the Beta 3 version of the Task Board for Team System. For those not in the know, the Task Board for Team System is an interactive user interface created for the Scrum for Team System process template. So what's new in beta...
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I was lucky to attend and present at last week's SharePoint Best Practices conference. I'm still new to the whole speaking "thing" and, frankly, I was a bit nervous for the first half while I sweated out waiting to speak myself. That sort of nervous feeling...
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New Media Age has ranked Conchango Number 3 in the annual Top 100 Interactive Agencies list, which ranks the UK's top 100 digital marketing, design & build and technical agencies. NMA, known for their content and coverage in the digital space, are...
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