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Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day three was Entity Framework 4 day. I love it!
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/24/2009
Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/23/2009
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – Day two and my love for Boot from VHD
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/23/2009
Using IIS to generate a X509 certificate for use with the Windows Azure Service Management API – step by step
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/22/2009
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the quiet before the storm
Next week I am presenting two sessions at Software Architect 2009. Both sessions are new, new in the...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/22/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 009 – Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding Dojos
[Amazingly – I actually got this podcast done before the MSDN Flash newsletter it accompanies :-)...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/16/2009
More happy is coming
Cute :)
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/11/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for Sept 16th 2009: How do you do Unit Testing?
[From a suggestion by Ian Cooper] There are many different approaches to unit testing software, from...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/10/2009
Mocking, Stubs and Project NEric
I started to play with Moq a few weeks back under the guise of Project NEric and then… real work got...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/09/2009
The Patterns and Practices team have been busy – list of releases in the last 12 months
I’m just pulling together next Wednesday MSDN Flash newsletter and came across this gem. The last 12...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/09/2009
Microsoft Expression 3 and Silverlight 3 Starter Kits to download
I had totally missed the existence of these great starter kits for Expression 3 and Silverlight 3...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/09/2009
SQLbits conference in Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales. 19th to 21st November
SQLbits is a great conference. This time around there is three distinct days and it happens to be...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/27/2009
My podcast hoster is down. Sorry. Alternative download link
[UPDATE 27/8/09 14:51: The hoster is back up - stick with Itunes and the RSS feed in the original...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/27/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 008 – Gary Short discusses using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm applications
This podcast is an interview with Gary Short in which we discuss the DevExpress eXpressApp...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/26/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0
This podcast accompanies the August 12th, 2009 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes an...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/26/2009
AltNetUK conference was a great way to spend a weekend
Last weekend (August 1st and 2nd 2009) I went into London to attend the Alt.NET UK Conference or...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/05/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll: How did your software team score in the Joel Test?
It is 9 years since Joel Spolsky created “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code”. I thought it...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/05/2009
The weekly SyncToBlog: #6
A long overdue “brain dump” of stuff that I found interesting. Development related: WPF vs...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/24/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 006 – Eric Nelson discusses Visual Studio 2010, Parallel, Language Parity and Azure
This show is a bonus edition. It includes a brief overview of the announcements this week around...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/16/2009
UK National Rail Enquiries in Outlook 2003 and 2007 using .NET 3.5 SP1 - sweet
My group has been working with https://www.nationalrail.co.uk and one of the first deliverables is...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/13/2009
NEric discovers Dimecasts – a great resource for none-Microsoft .NET technologies and tools
I am in step 1 of Project NEric. Step 1 is “Identify the specific technologies, tools and approaches...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/10/2009
SQL Azure and SQL Azure Data Platform in a simple diagram
In March 2008 we announced SQL Server Data Services. In October 2008 we renamed it to SQL Data...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/10/2009
DDD SouthWest in full colour video with sound and everything
I previously posted about what a great job Guy and his team had done with DDD SouthWest and the...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/09/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 005 - Gary Short discusses technical debt
This podcast accompanies the July 1st, 2009 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes an...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/01/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 4 – Open Source Frameworks and Libraries with Sara Ford
This podcast accompanies the June 17th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes a twenty...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/26/2009
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Or… announcing project NEric
I am 41. I started developing software when I was 12 using a Sinclair ZX80. That means I have been...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/26/2009
Expression Design + WPF + Silverlight + Touch + Bizspark = startup heaven?
I had an opportunity to catch up with UK Software Startup IPrinciples. IPrinciples specialises in...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/26/2009
Only 7 days left to take advantage of great offers on Visual Studio - UK only
ADVERT ALERT but hopefully a useful one … Don’t delay, buy today! And that ends my attempt at...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/23/2009
Three Men and a Whiteboard: Windows Azure
The third Three Men and a Whiteboard, also known as “The one where we forgot about the 10 minute...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/23/2009
Three Men and a Whiteboard: Windows Client Technologies
The second Three Men and a Whiteboard, also knows as “The one where Mike T strums his guitar” or...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/23/2009
Three Men and a Whiteboard: ASP.NET MVC
The first Three Men and a Whiteboard session we ever recorded. Possibly the best :-) Also known as...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/23/2009
Open Source Framework and Library Recommendations
As the technical editor for the UK MSDN Flash I get surprisingly free rein to decide what content to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/19/2009
Slides and links for Windows Azure session for GL.NET
Had a great time Wednesday night delivering a session on Azure and SQL Data Services at GL.NET....
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/19/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for June 17th 2009: How many monitors do you use for developing software?
I have a couple of days leave coming, hence the early poll to accompany the Flash next week. I...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/11/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Pilot Show 3 Bonus Edition on Windows 7 Compatibility
This is the third podcast pilot to accompany the fortnightly MSDN Flash newsletter. This is an...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/10/2009
A proper thank you to Guy and the team for DDD SouthWest … and VB won!
After attending DDD SouthWest I went on a weeks holiday before I got a chance to blog out a “thank...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/08/2009
Summary of new Visual Basic Posts on Goto100
I have been sitting on a long list of part finished posts on Visual Basic “stuff” intended for my...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/08/2009
32minutes of me at Qcon talking on Visual Studio 2010, VB, F#, .NET 4.0, Parallel, Azure
Back in March I presented at Qcon 2009 in London which is a great conference although I had a little...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/08/2009
Suggestions so far for UK MSDN Flash Special Edition on Open Source Software for developers
Back in February we did our first special edition of the UK MSDN Flash focused on Free Software for...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/08/2009
Slides and links for Future of Web Applications session on Windows Azure at Bristol
Just about finished putting together my session for the FOWA tour in Bristol. I have only 50minutes....
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/02/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll: How interested are you in User Interface design?
The topic this time around is “How interested are you in User Interface design?”. This poll came...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/02/2009
DevWeek 2009 Interview with Simon Brown on Software Architects
Simon Brown founded https://www.codingthearchitecture.com/ which is a great site for developers...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/20/2009
DevWeek 2009 Interview with Richard Blewett on Workflow 4.0
I had a chance to catch up with Richard, founder of https://www.rocksolidknowledge.com/, at DevWeek...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/20/2009
Entity Framework Interview – yep, this is what I look like!
In March 2009 I presented on Entity Framework V1 and a little V2 at DevWeek 2009. MikeT caught me on...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/20/2009
Maybe see you at DDD South West this Saturday 23rd May
In my “work role” I often speak at events/conferences but I rarely get to just be an attendee...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/20/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 download available and MSDN Library is online
Monday 18th 2009 will be remembered as the day I successfully took on a rootkit virus on the main TV...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/18/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Pilot Show 2 for May 6th 2009
This is the second pilot podcast to accompany the fortnightly MSDN Flash newsletter (Check out Pilot...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 05/18/2009