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Linq to SQL is great. You can open up your Db schema, drag some tables in, and in no time you have a data context class with loads of functionality, and data classes for all of the entities. No more recordsets to unpack into objects, no more fields to...
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So I was having a conversation the other day about whether or not IE8 will pass the "Acid 3 test" and meet the HTML/CSS/scripting standards properly. It’s all well and good meeting the standards, except... There are a whole bunch of new standards coming...
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If you've read one of my previous posts about Fuzzy Logic, then you'll know that I was thinking about moving house earlier this year. Without boring you too much about my personal life, we're not going down that route anymore, instead we've been...
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I pushed too much data on to the Windows Home Server (WHS) and I started to get health warnings indicating which files it could no longer duplicate. My data was stored OK, just at risk. Given that the WHS experience was going well I ordered up a Lacie...
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Being new to Conchango (& new to consulting for that matter), I am a little out of my comfort zone right now. I’ve never written a blog before either & was struggling with what I could contribute. I thought maybe I should follow the writer’s maxim...
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Before starting out on my tweening adventures I have to admit too being complete tweening newbie. On previous WPF and Silverlight projects animations were rolled from scratch to provide the desired responses to changes in the applications state. With...
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Dan Sumner at Microsoft seemed quite intrigued by a presentation I made the other day on a couple of trends that came through our friends at the Future Laboratory . The Slash/Slash Generation was one. More on this another day, but the one that captured...
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As I mentioned in my first post (and will probably continue to do so for the unforeseeable future), I recently attended JP Boodhoo's Nothin' But Dot Net training 'boot camp' which has motivated me to start to write about some of the stuff that I learnt...
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BizTalk 2006 R2 This article is intended to provide an overview of BTS 06 R2 new set of adapter and integration with WCF and WF. (Some of the contents are referred from the Microsoft web site) Firstly BTS 06 R2 is released more or less at the same time...
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Ok, I've been meaning to post this for a while, so sorry it's late... but I talk a lot about 'experience' and user-centred design, and occasionally, I stumble across someone who doesn't come from my universe and isn't as keenly aware of what some of this...
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Conchango are pleased to announce the date for the next Silverlight User Group as Thursday 14th August. The venue is currently the Conchango offices in London Bridge , although another venue will be arranged if we are oversubscribed. Full details to follow....
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It's heartening, in this day and age, to see numerous top-flight retailers making significant investment, both in terms of cash and resource, in their online business. Recalling conversations which took place in the early days of this century, when a...
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Please welcome the new King - 360° Retail! Just as Web2.0 was a buzz word for a seismic change in the way users interacted and used the internet, the Web2.0 term was over used and wrongly interpreted by both retailers and their internal processes and...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming ever more important. Some recent headlines; Tesco is to test putting "carbon labels" on its own-brand products next month in a move to enable consumers to choose products which are less...
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This morning the guys opened up registration for SQLBits III to be held in Hatfield on 13th September. In an incredible morning there has been over 100 successful registrations on the site - that's great going over 25% full on day 1. Just to remind you...
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Data warehousing and Business Intelligence is about consolidating accurate data in a timely fashion and presenting it to users. Timely, used to mean next day. Technology has moved on and now product vendors are pushing real time BI as the...
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Crikey. That title sounds like an essay I had to write when I was at school and that was a long time ago... Jamie Thomson raised an important point in a comment on a blog I posted yesterday entitled " Getting rid of getdate() ". ...
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WPC08 was a busy event for Conchango and we had a great team working on it, they really deserve a huge thanks and a lot of credit. A quick snapshot of WPC08 – The Conchango Show 1. Allison Watson, Senior VP Worldwide Partner Group Keynote Gabrielle Deeny...
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AAAaaaaah...Yesterday was just one of those days. I was trying to do something very simple in a script task - assign the current datetime value to one of my variables - and was pulling my stubbly hair out trying to do it. I am happy to confess to...
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Ok I admit - I use it. Pretty much everyone I know uses it and yet I feel dirty when I do. Why? Well it's not portable SQL and most certainly not ANSI standard. I need to get the datetime I hear you say. How do I do this without getdate()? ...
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Technorati Tags: ISPA , International SharePoint Professionals Association , Sharepoint community As part of the ISPA board, I'm pleased to announce launch of ISPA web site, it can be viewed at: http://sharepointpros.org ISPA had been operational for...
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If you haven’t worked on an Agile project then your team or client will probably consider attempting to design the infrastructure that’s needed for the entire life cycle of your solution up front. Everyone tends to accept that even with a costly up front...
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I successfully installed Windows Home Server on a 7 year old Athlon 1800 with 512MB of RAM and two ATA drives (100GB and 200GB). My first concerns were: would the BIOS support booting from the DVD drive and was it a USB 2 card in there? Thankfully yes...
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We had the classic situation come up on a project the other day. The recovery models on the databases were set to full and yet the backup strategy didn't reflect this. Needless to say, we ran out of disk space on our build server. In...
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If like me you are following the Silverlight trail, you are more than likely to be reading Silverlight Cream and the Silverlight Show and their daily posts which provide a great way to stay on top of the daily Silverlight news. Not only do I subscribe...
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