At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference Kevin Turner announced the “2008 Global Launch Wave”. This will include Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server). The occasion will be marked on 27th February 2008 in Los… Continue reading

We’ve finished all the writing for the book, and it’s now winging it’s way to the printers. This week I finished converting all my sample code to Visual Basic so that we’ll have two versions of all the sample code… Continue reading

Is Pastie McCode the next Barry Scott? Well probably not, but if you are a UK business who is interested in getting up to speed with Vista and Office 2007 then you may want to find out more. http://ukvistaofficelaunchtour.spaces.live.com/ Continue reading

I’m partly blogging to show I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth (yesterday was a near miss though), and partly to plug MEDC2006 which is starting today in Las Vegas. Being somewhat of a cheapskate I opted for… Continue reading

The conference website is now live at www.medc2006.com. Registration is now open along with details of the pre-conference session. Full session details for the conference tracks are not up yet, but you can subscribe to the RSS feeds for Application Development,… Continue reading

[via Jason Langridge] MEDC will be returning to a dedicated conference for Europe this year, last year saw a number of one day events and in 2004 MDC was a thread within Tech Ed Europe.   Details are fairly basic… Continue reading

I really enjoyed DDD Day 2 on Saturday. I hope my session was useful and can help raise some interest in the possibilities (and challenges) provided by using Bluetooth for peer-to-peer networking. My slides are available to download here:- BluetoothDDD2.ppt (107.5… Continue reading