http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/ The latest posts from UK developer blogs, provided by Developer Fusion en-gb Developer Fusion RSS Feed Generator v1.0 Sat, 10 May 2008 23:36:39 GMT 20 http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6794722 The BBC has a Silverlight deep zoom app as part of the web coverage of the ‘Radio 1 Big Weekend’ event. (“Europe’s biggest free ticketed event” apparently.) If you live in the UK and have watched BBC television at all this week, you’ve probably already seen the adverts for the event itself. The deep... Ian Griffiths Sat, 10 May 2008 15:45:50 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6793197 Desert Island Geek returns with Ewan Spence Ewan is a kilt-wearing, über-geek podcaster, and producer and host of the TPN Rock show from The Podcast Network. You can generally find Ewan at almost every important, global, geek gathering, wherever it may be in the world - kilt included! Discover the f... neil Sat, 10 May 2008 11:33:45 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6793187 Yes, Xobni is brilliant. Have you ever tried sorting an Outlook inbox by conversation? Of course Outlook goes into a thrash while it prepares the view. Then when it has finished, it does not work right. It has a limited view of what a conversation is, based on the email title. It does not show your ... tim Sat, 10 May 2008 10:43:47 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6793188 I love this progress dialog: It is from one of the excellent dBpoweramp music utilities by Illustrate. Technorati tags: dbpoweramp, illustrate, concurrency ... tim Sat, 10 May 2008 10:16:50 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6792084 I have finished making videos showing how to deploy and update Applications using ClickOnce.  All the videos have been zipped so that you can download them and watch at your leisure. I orignally thought it was going to be in two parts, but decided in the long run to make it three parts to keep ... V. Neil Knobbe Sat, 10 May 2008 04:59:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6790031 US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment.... Colin Harman MACITP Sat, 10 May 2008 01:10:24 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6790011 Its the main event tomorrow... Developer Day Scotland - 10th May 2008 If you have not already signed up, well, its probably too late...but if you are still up and you are in Glasgow tomorrow get yourself down to Glasgow Caledonian University (I went to University there) and drop in. Don't forget to... Martin Hinshelwood Sat, 10 May 2008 00:02:10 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6789996 We have been receiving a growing number of inquiries from customers asking about the business value as well as Microsoft's vision of "Social Networking" and "Enterprise 2.0" and "Social Media" and other buzzwords related to Social Computing in the business environment. While we do have a number of i... sptblog Fri, 09 May 2008 23:52:15 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6788365 I was amused at Viral's take on the fact that we'd hacked our own website the other day with the Live to Code ethic that developers seem to embrace so much.  More so, as I recently met Josh at our Technical conference this year.  Josh had admired my Women in Technology sticker, and gave me... Eileen_Brown Fri, 09 May 2008 21:49:37 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6786800 SQL Server 2005 has introduce a secret-door for Admins to identify and resolve any connect lockout issues within your database instance, as on http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/tools/archive/2007/08/04/dedicated-administrator-console-dac-saved-an-important-day-for-a-dba.aspx how. Use the following query... SQL Master Fri, 09 May 2008 19:11:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6786888 Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma.... Colin Harman MACITP Fri, 09 May 2008 17:54:11 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6786890 Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.... Colin Harman MACITP Fri, 09 May 2008 17:33:23 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6787049 Matt Warren has an "interesting" post on how you could hack your way to a mocked implementation of LINQ to SQL - if I had a pound for every time someone's asked me how to do this then I'd have at least 3 pounds :-) Seriously though, there is interest in doing this kind of thing and it's a good start... mtaulty Fri, 09 May 2008 16:21:13 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6787050 Interesting demonstration app up here; http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/ put together by some of the MCS guys in the UK as far as I know. The terminology is a bit weird ( "Patient Journey?" ) but the app's quite cool as a playpen for Silverlight.... mtaulty Fri, 09 May 2008 16:11:37 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6785207 A former URGE subscriber tells her story on Valleywag: I got an email that said Urge was closing and my membership would be transferred to Rhapsody 25 … I was unable to refresh my licenses because Urge had closed … turns out, they never moved the DRM over to their servers because “... tim Fri, 09 May 2008 14:35:56 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6785258 Virtual worlds for children are booming. Will they all survive?... Colin Harman MACITP Fri, 09 May 2008 14:16:04 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6785187 UPDATE: Apparently, the Expression Studio is available, but you need to go to the Top MSDN Downloads page. Here is the link to the top downloads page. Plus it turns out that I clearly was not awake this morning when I made this post originally as the blog post I link to below [...]... Gary Pretty Fri, 09 May 2008 10:57:32 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6786801 Have you ever seen or used the PowerShell? If so have you worked on PowerShell within SQL Server 2008, it has 2 kinds of snap-ins that are called as Powershell Provider and set of Cmdlets. The provider will enables the simple navigation mechanism similar to file system paths, within that associated ... SQL Master Fri, 09 May 2008 10:45:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6781995 A rather large post today, but hopefully that will keep your .NET appetites satisfied until Monday Software NUnit 2.5 Alpha 2 Released - Charlie Poole announces the Beta 2 Release of Nunit 2.5 Ease your SSMS experience: SSMS Tools PACK 1.0 is out! - Mladen Prajdic.releases version 1.0 of his free Sq... Chris Alcock Fri, 09 May 2008 08:03:14 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6785253 Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.... Colin Harman MACITP Fri, 09 May 2008 07:16:55 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/6780528 MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.... Colin Harman MACITP Fri, 09 May 2008 01:20:01 GMT