I registered for Mix:UK a few weeks ago and today got an email from the Mix team about a social networking tool they are using to help people make the most of the conference. They are using backne...

I was spending far too much time installing OS’s – virtual machines, lab machines etc. In order to automate / streamline this I wanted to look at not just the Windows tools as well as other optio...

Some of the code I have for importing data (from ACT! 2000) to MS CRM creates new ‘PhoneCall’ activities / objects. The problem is, that it seems MSCRM does not allow you to programmatically modify...

So dasBlog 2.0 (running under AS.NET 2.0 and medium trust) is now released. Scott has a great write up on it. I have been running this web site on it for a few weeks now and it’s been fine. We sne...

I am was sitting on a plane (to Boston) writing this. In front of me is a laptop (obviously), my Creative Zen Vision:M mp3/4 player (complete with around 10 episodes of dot net rocks and 4 of hanse...

Books I am currently reading : Code Complete (Second Edition) by Steve McConnell This is the second edition of the classic ‘software construction’ guide. It has been updated to bring it into lin...

A bit of a detour from technical content, but I think this affects many technical people. This weekend I was reading some of Steve Pavlina’s ‘Personal Development for Smart People’ blog (not that ...

A few months ago I added a ‘Daily Report Email’ feature to dasBlog, so I could have the activity reports (referrers, searches etc) delivered to my mailbox at the end of every day. I wanted to take ...

Today I was looking around for some MSCRM info. I came across a great document on the Microsoft Website, Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Small Business Edition. It is a PDF file but on their Websi...

So after some poor experiences with the MSCRM Data Migration framework I decided to get pragmatic and write a C# app to do the migration. The CDF is poorly documented at best, it seems they (Micro...