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Merry Christmas!

Posted 25 December 2008 08:00 by tonyj
Merry Christmas everyone, I hope Santa brought you something nice. Here's to an eventful, but peaceful, 2009! Read More...
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The Uncanny Valley effect...

Posted 17 December 2008 19:34 by tonyj
I've always rejected building web applications that ape desktop applications, but articulating this rejection has always failed me. I've never been able to put my finger on why I don't like fancy ajax interfaces that mimic desktop application, but Jeff Read More...
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"New XBOX Experience" trashes my 360...

Posted 03 December 2008 00:17 by tonyj
Whilst I like to keep this as a technical blog, I must doff my cap to Microsoft's XBOX 360 warranty and repair service. I bought my 360 in Jan 2006 and didn't have any problems with it until the new XBOX experience was launched a couple of weeks ago. Read More...
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Day 5 - 15:15 : The TechEd Daily Scrum

Posted 14 November 2008 22:22 by tonyj
Presented by Stephen Forte again (second time inside of a single day!), this final session at Tech-Ed was a review of what SCRUM is, how it's working for people and then it turned over to mass debate. Again, we find religious arguments coming to a head Read More...
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Day 5 - 10:45 : Data access smackdown! Making sense of Microsoft's new data access strategy (DAT02-IS)

Posted 14 November 2008 21:41 by tonyj
Stephen Forte , Chief Strategy Officer from Telerik, started this interactive session reviewing the history of Microsoft's data access offerings and then discussing the latest multitude of choices. As this was an interactive session, there were lots of Read More...
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