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While catching up on long overdue flagged posts to read - I spotted a familiar meme on becoming a better developer – I wrote about Continuous Education almost 2 years and it’s nice to see that this topic keeps reappearing. I’ve updated my bubble graph of the technologies to include those that I’ve used over the last 12 months and have also added ...

Less than 24 hours to go and I will be on my way to Vegas for Mix07. Last year Mix06 was a great success and after watching the channel 9 video "Mixin' it up with Beth and Ray" this year is going to be bigger and better. Unlike other Microsoft conferences where audiences grok a number of new offerings from Microsoft where speakers ...

Jamie and I were chatting yesterday morning about Vista Sidebar Gadgets when he sent me a link to the Sidebar Gadget Development MSDN Forum where chemgirl had posted a new thread "Can someone make a gadget for us chemistry students". I read the post and had a look around the Apple Dashboard Widgets page and found the "The Periodic ...

I am lucky enough to be going out to Barcelona for Tech Ed in November. If you are going and would like to meet up then please drop me an email. It would be great to meet up.  

Last Community Day I did a short presentation to the Conchango .NET Development Community about all the .NET projects that we’re currently working on and some of the Web 2.0 / Windows Vista / .NET Framework 3.0 initiatives we’re involved with; we’re really busy at the moment and I know all of the developers are involved with making their own ...

Yesterday I attended DDD!D 3 along with other Conchango-ites Richard Griffin, Andy Britcliffe, Mark Mann, Tony Scott and Christian Wade – who incidentally gave a talk titled “SQL Server 2005 Development: Tips n’ Tricks”. This is the first time I had attended DDD!D - there was a great buzz and it was really impressive to see so many people give up ...

I know this has already been trumpeted elsewhere on the Conchango blogs - but I thought it needed saying again. The research and analysis company Forrester assessed 16 different design companies (including AKQA (who designed the Xbox 360 user interface), Agency.com and LB Icon) in Europe, spoke to them, assessed the work they had ...

Roy Osherove has been blogging about Generics a few times 1 2 3 this week - which reminded me that I had a post saved in my “Drafts” folder in Outlook that simply said “talk about Generics and Serialization”. One of the main benefits of Generics in .NET 2.0 is the ability to reduce code bloat, whether that manifests itself in ...

Currently, we have a number of job openings, spanning all areas of the company - from a User Experience Consultant to a Microsoft Solution Architect, a Creative Lead to a .NET Consultant, a J2EE Senior Architect to a Internal System Team Leader. Overall we have 15 vacancies listed on the careers section of our website. If you're ...

I'm off to PDC next along with Colin, Paulo and Mick (no blog!) . I’m pretty excited about learning more about WCF and WPF and all those session related to Team System (current and next). Must remember to fill out the PDC Bingo page before I go.