November 2007 Entries
As part of the VS2008 install Visual Studio will migrate all your old VS2005 settings. This is a bit of a problem if, like me, you have Resharper installed. Resharper disables Visual Studio’s intellisense in favour of its own. This wouldn’t be so bad except VS2008 doesn’t bring Resharper with it (Resharper for Visual Studio 2008 is coming but won’t be in beta till the new year). So when you start to type in VS2008 you suddenly realise that intellisense has gone (and realise that you can’t remember anything any more without it). In order to restore your crutch pull...
So next week is my very first visit to Redmond (I can’t think why they’ve never let me on campus before *grin*). Aside from planning to ask "Where’s the documentation?" of the CardSpace team I had a request for supplies from an ex-pat. So, well, I have this ... Is it going to be enough? Technorati tags: Dairy Milk, Microsoft
DDD heads north of the border on Saturday 10th May, 2008 for Developer Day Scotland, at the Glasgow Caledonian University. The call for speakers is now open (and again I was first, hah, I beat Gary Short again on his home territory this time!) If you’ve been aching to present but could never get down to civilisation the south of England now is your chance to shine. What:Developer Day ScotlandDeveloper Day Scotland is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! community conference events.When:Saturday, May 10, 2008 9:00 AM to...
Another Developer Day has been and gone, with mixed success for me. This time around I took part in two sessions, Colin Mackay's recruitment session and one of my own on WCF. The recruitment session was fun, it’s always amused to appear beside Sarah, who refused to wear the fetching green polo shirt, despite having one in just her size (for those keep note we’ve had white, black, blue and magenta, never let it be said we’re not on the cutting edge of fashion). Questions were taken from the audience (and indeed some attendees appear to have come...