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...

I’m in Western Mass (Westboro, MA) again this week and while that normally means 16 hour days (there is nothing much else to do but sit around a hotel room so why not…), this week I decided to work...

So, this is something I learned on the Certified ScrumMaster course by Danube Technologies. It really clarified for me that any sense of control over software deadlines is, pretty much, only a ‘pe...