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  • The Irony of the EU Referendum

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    It’s been a weird few days. For many months on Facebook and in other discussions I’ve often defended what I suppose some people might call “the establishment”. The Monarchy, the House of Lords, our voting systems. I have my reasons, which I believe are valid, as to why we should keep these institutions and systems,… more …

    The Irony of the EU Referendum

  • MIX REVIEW

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    Well I went to MIX UK 07 with a little trepidation, I’m not much of a designer and I’m more a frameworks and SQL kind of guy, albeit in the web space and I’ve never really embraced whole-heartedly the ASP.NET Server Controls stuff, being content to use the ASP.NET process and to work with… more …

  • VBUG Conference

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    VBUG are having their annual conference on 17th and 18th of October 2007.  A host of great speakers will be there, such as Guy Smith-Ferrier, Oliver Sturm and Mike Taulty. Just to bring you all down to earth, I’ll be there as well, so avoid my 2 sessions …A downloadable PDF file is available with… more …

  • I’m Live Blogging from MIXUK …

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    I just feel I ought to Live Blog from MIXUK just to prove that I’m not an old fart. So I’m sitting here in the front row of Track 1, listening to Scott Guthrie. He’s currently answering a question by Guy Smith-Ferrier about when will an FxCop equivalent come out for Javascript.  he’s now saying… more …

  • The Jury is Still Out Apparently …

    If you’ve been following my ‘rant’s’ on the environment, check this one out.  Just to clarify, I ain’t against environmental protection, I’m very much a huge supporter of protecting our environment, wild life and eco-systems.  What I’m against is politicians and companies hijacking the whole ‘global-warming’ pop-culture for their own ends, and trying to impose their own prejudiced… more …

  • SQLBits Community Conference is on 6th October

    The DDD style of events is really taking off here in the UK.  Now the database guys have taken up the mantel and are putting on SQLBits. Taking place on Saturday Oct 6th the first SQL Community conference (SQLBits – http://www.SQLBits.com) will have 20 sessions in 4 tracks (Business Intelligence, DBA, Development and Katmai) .… more …

  • Will he? Won’t he? Will he? Yes he will ….

    After months of soul searching and chewing his fingers to the bone, Craig Murphy has bitten the bullet.  He’s released the secret diaries of the MVP ‘Global’ Summit … Well sort of.  In fact its a podcast, in the loosest sense of the word, recorded during the latter stages of a particularly party filled evening in the… more …

  • NxtGenUG have a new Region – Cambridge!

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      The Boyz (that’s Rich, John, Chris, Barry and me)  from NxtGenUG are absolutely delighted to announce the opening of a brand new NxtGenUG region – this time in Cambridge. So now Developers from the flatlands of East Anglia can gather together to learn, chat, eat Pizza and get ‘swagged’ in the ‘NxtGenUG Way’… more …

  • I’M HEADING FOR XSLT HEAVEN!!

    Really interesting posting on MSDN Blogger Chris Koenig on a new VS2008 add-in called IronXSLT.  Thanks to Richie for pointing this out to me.  You can read the full posting at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig/archive/2007/08/16/ironxslt.aspx, but with intellisense a VISUAL DESIGNER for XSLT, XSLT Refactoring, LINQ2XSLT, XPath Intellisense and a host of other stuff, it looks like I’m… more …

  • SkyDrive

    A ‘nice’ new Live service on offer by Microsoft is SkyDrive, basically storage on the web.  This used to be Windows Live Folders I think. Now THIS is handy, as there are always those occasions when you want to get stuff passed around and FTP ain’t available, the USB key isn’t an option, neither… more …

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Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …