Irascian Ltd

I had a fun day at the community WebDD event. I've posted my "photo blog" (photo's and short 'review')  here. ...

This poor old blog has been somewhat neglected of late! There is lots going on on the work front at the moment which I can't really post about for reasons of client confidentiality I'm also prepping for the first of the new MSTS certification exams and...

I took a day off working at a client site today to attend an MSDN 'Refresher' on the .NET Framework 3.0 technologies and Windows Vista. MSDN events seem to have got smaller and smaller as more of Microsoft's marketing money has been reallocated...

It's six months away (November 7th), but registration for Microsoft's TechEd Europe 2006 has opened and I'm booked up. Early registrants get some nice extra's this year as well as the usual 300 Euro discount for booking before September. I'm not convinced this...

Well that didn't take long! The first service pack for SQL Server 2005 is now available for download from Microsoft here....

Microsoft Certification is one of those topics that keeps cropping up on the different forums and newsgroups and causing furious debate. Those expecting it to be a "magic bullet" to career progression are in for a huge disappointment. There are too many...

We're a good few weeks away from the first Visual Studio Team System books landing on bookshelves. There's "Working with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" from Microsoft Press out already, but really this is the marketing material for the...

Team Foundation Server (TFS) has been released to manufacturing and is now available for download to MSDN Universal subscribers in its '5 user maximum' Workgroup edition. TFS works in conjunction with Team editions of Visual Studio 2005, which shipped...

Finally, London is going wireless. It's early days yet but Thames Online are the first to offer high-speed wireless access from many points along (and on!) the River Thames. There's a free trial currently running until the end of March and after that...

We've updated the site to Community Server 2.0 and as part of that upgrade restructured the blogs, RSS feeds and previous blog entries (basically they're gone!) We have left up the PDC 2005 blogs since these were getting a lot of traffic and also left...