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...

So I just spent two days in London on a ‘Certified ScrumMaster’ training course run by Danube Technologies. The instructor was a Dan Rawsthorne and although he liked to reference things to the mil...

This is pretty cool. Microsoft (in the UK) are creating downloadable dictionaries for Office that contain words from local dialects. It is only a matter of time before I can type: It wisnae me tha...

Just didn’t work for me. I had it all set up as per the docs, imported the data into the CDF database, tried to ‘Migrate’ and it completed but migrated no records (even though I had 8000+ in the C...

Recently I was reviewing the progress I had made with the development team (at work) since to took over responsibility for them around 8 months ago. It is actually pretty impressive (even if I do s...

One of the projects I am involved with at work was evaluating Microsoft CRM (MSCRM). Out of the box, it comes as a pretty well fully featured CRM application, but it is also hugely customizable. I...

A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Acer Aspire L100 desktop PC and have only just got a chance to set it up and get using it. I had been looking for a small ‘machine’ (in terms of physical size)...

One of the developers on the dasBlog team (Nick) looked at this and found that there was a fairly easy fix we could do to dasBlog that would get around the Word 2007 issue. The metaWeblog API stat...

On 13 December 2006 I wrote this post demonstrating why Blogging from Word 2007 to Dasblog (and other blogs that correctly implemented newMediaObject) was broken. Recently I noticed a number of my ...