Misc
Apologies in advance for any problems caused as I move over to http://ericnelson.wordpress... over the next few days. I will blog again on here when the move is fully complete. I have had a superb time on http://geekswithblogs.net which I moved to back in January 2009 – but it doesn’t quite match what I am after in a blogging platform right now where as wordpress.com broadly does. This will be my second change of platform in 7 years – it was back in July 2004 I created my first technology blog over...
Posted On Friday, August 26, 2011 1:35 PM | Feedback (0)
Guy who runs the excellent DotNetDevNet user group out of Bristol posted back in June on the top speakers from the first 50 meetings and let me know I made the top 10 for knowledge (Cough! ) and presentation skills (I have skills! Wow ) Well, I’ve finally revisited his post to have a proper look and … what a great line up to be in. Above me are the likes of Steve Sanderson, Richard Campbell and Mike Taulty. I’ll take that. Sweet. Thanks Guy...
Posted On Monday, August 22, 2011 1:47 PM | Feedback (0)
Ok… it doesn’t really but this still cheered my Thursday eve. Whilst perusing the blog of BF3 I spotted that publisher behemoth EA were doing an “innocent poll” on mobile devices. As background, BF3 is arguably the game of 2011 which puts PC gaming back on the map for mainstream FPS fans, easily outshining what will be available for Consoles. It is also worth pointing out that the poll isn’t so innocent in the sense that EA are making a massive push into mobile gaming – which also happens to include...
Posted On Friday, August 19, 2011 10:23 AM | Feedback (0)
Just a short note to say I’m back on this blog… I’m back on twitter… I never left LinkedIn… except… I have buggered up my eyes and optician has told me to dramatically reduce my pc usage for a couple of days. Catch you all soon
Posted On Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:11 AM | Feedback (0)
Abby is a fellow evangelist at Microsoft with a specific focus on working with startups in the USA. Abby has some great insights into how to be a successful startup. Now my team in the UK are focused primarily on ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) but it turns out that a pretty high percentage of startups are … you guessed it… ISVs. If you happen to be an ISV and a startup in the UK, then I would definitely recommend you spend 13 minutes with the following: Lean Startup 101 for Developers Lean Startup...
Posted On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:52 PM | Feedback (0)
Bindi forwarded on this picture of me “talking Azure” at the Biztalk event we held in London on the 25th of March. Made me chuckle :) David and I had a great time with the afternoon session – which ended up pretty much a two hour Q&A. Related Links: Tell us what you are doing (or plan to do) with Windows Azure on the Microsoft Platform Ready site and in return get free technical help and more...
Posted On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 8:13 PM | Feedback (0)
Tuesday evening I found myself minus family. I decided to use the time to “have a crack at this Silverlight Phone 7 stuff”. From zero (no experience, no tools installed, no membership on the AppHub) to submitted for approval took me from 8pm to 1am – with the last hour messing around with png files in Paint to complete the submission process! Two days later on Thursday it was approved and is now in the marketplace for you to install - or not :-) The application is very simple but it works and looks...
Posted On Friday, March 18, 2011 3:19 PM | Feedback (0)
This post is simple superb – What if Visual Studio had Achievements :-) Although maybe you need to a developer who also has an Xbox to fully understand how good it is. My favourites: Shotgun Debugging – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with a single character change The Architect – Created 25 Interfaces in a single project The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time Every Option Considered – Created an enum with more than 30 values Thanks to Dominic for highlighting it to...
Posted On Thursday, January 27, 2011 5:43 PM | Feedback (0)
A year or so back I was using the Boot from VHD feature lots – but not in recent times and not with my current laptop configuration (Lenovo T61p with 2nd internal hard drive). In readiness for the upcoming SharePoint 2010 training for UK ISVs in February I wanted to make use of a Microsoft created SharePoint 2010 VM, more specifically the VHD from the VM. It has taken me three hours on and off to get it to work – which must warrant a blog post, if only so I can remember what I did a year from now!...
Posted On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:13 PM | Feedback (0)
I would like to wish anyone and everyone who visits this blog (even the spammer) or who I have had the pleasure to work with in 2010 (or for that matter 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006… 1996) A very Merry Christmas and a fun and healthy New Year Picture brought to you by Bob Cratchett - alias colleague, friend and inspiration Andrew Fryer...
Posted On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:48 AM | Feedback (0)
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