http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/ The latest posts from UK developer blogs, provided by Developer Fusion en-gb Developer Fusion RSS Feed Generator v1.0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:42:35 GMT 20 http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8290573 Embarcadero is to release Delphi for .NET as a Visual Studio add-on, called Prism. Marco Cantu has a summary. Note that according to this post, which is based on an announcement statement by product manager Nick Hodges at the SDN conference near Amsterdam, there will be: full support for the .NET fr... Tim Anderson Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:12:43 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8290758 Seen in the wild.         /// <summary>         /// This is only for Unit Test Use         /// </summary> Code is not shown to protect the guilty, but it’s a method to set a property ... noreply@blogger.com (Sebastien Lambla) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:49:19 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8290523 The FBI is seeking a British man and his German accomplice over attacks on web shops selling satellite TV equipment.... Colin Harman MACITP Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:10:44 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8288517 If you’re fed up with the time, costs and hassle of going to London (or further) to hear from the best software speakers then a new series of software talks we’re launching in Cambridge could be of interest. The first session will take place on the evening of Thursday November 20th at Do... Mark Dalgarno Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:30:34 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8289291 Hmm. I was reading my mail this morning. Shutdown Outlook to do something else ( I do this, I don't like leaving Outlook running otherwise it eats your day ). I run it up later on and notice that the reading pane isn't displaying the selected mail. I double click on a mail and Outlook tells me; "Una... mtaulty Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:18:24 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8288918 I was going to have yet another rant on separating everything in a ridiculous amount of project files, to ensure separation, and started venting to one of my colleague, at which point he mentioned Jeremy just posted on the issue: Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling. Amen. Thanks Jeremy, that saves... noreply@blogger.com (Sebastien Lambla) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:15:10 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8290481 Few months ago I had an excellent opportunity to learn and share the knowledge within SQL Server performance tuning, Tech-Ed Online talks [remember Tech-ed Online Panel: Leveraging ... ]. Same in the series Amit Bansal, SQL Server MVP from India and myself had a brief chalk-talk online session on qu... SQL Master Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:51:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8289551 Here's an e-mail I got in response to telling FastHosts (for the third time) that my server was not well and that I was certain a disk was about to die (over several weeks so no sense of urgency here). FastHosts don't seem to care - any good host such as, ORCS Web, Rackspace or UKFast would be in th... Plip Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:58:37 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8289292 Via Jaime R, there's a whole set of transitions and effects to download up at CodePlex if you're on 3.5 Sp1. Link... mtaulty Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:08:25 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8288539 In a bid to claw back some users from Google, search site Ask is re-launching its front page.... Colin Harman MACITP Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:15:43 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8288497 Software Rhino Mocks 3.5 RTM - Ayende declares Rhino Mocks 3.5 to be done, and releases the final binaries and documentation. This version has a number of changes from the last, most notably, the enw Assert Act Arrange syntax for mocking, along with a host of other changes, bugfixes and patches. NHi... Chris Alcock Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:05:22 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8286708 Om Malik asks about Chrome usage, one month after its release. On this site this month (only a few days in) Chrome has a 2.5% share, below Opera at 3.2%. Malik reports 5.59%; commenters to his post have figures as small as 0.36% up to something approaching Malik’s figure – his seems to be about the ... Tim Anderson Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:03:40 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8287328 Everything You Need to Manage Your Money Online - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog Great looking blog. This is a great list of online tools for Money Management. Cha-Ching OSX software for managing cash. $40. Looks decent. ... Tobin Harris Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8283327 That one took me quite a while to understand. I’ve been building the integration tests for OpenRasta, a bunch of classes that configure a full web-server and run a real request-response scenario. This should hopefully help in limiting regressions, and may also be used in the future to ensure continu... noreply@blogger.com (Sebastien Lambla) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:22:35 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8281985 Following on from here, I thought I'd add a little bit of pushpin support to my basic Virtual Earth control for WPF. Essentially, I added a new property to the control called PushPins and each one of those is just a tuple of; { Latitude, Longitude, Text } to be placed on the map. This means that fro... mtaulty Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:53:59 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8279812   After installing Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta, I noticed that it automatically indexed files shared on my big tera-server. And below is a nugget from code I’ve lost a long time ago, back when I was helping write a failed emulator for Dark Age of Camelot. A C# OpenGL reader that could rende... noreply@blogger.com (Sebastien Lambla) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:43:54 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8279787 The Silverlight team has Visual Basic How-Do-I videos, and all the code downloads are now equally available in VB and C#.   Silverlight Visual Basic How-Do-I Videos ... Mike McIntyre [MVP Visual Basic] Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:14:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8277760 Yesterday, I noted that Microsoft’s TechNet and MSDN Sites were unreachable for me.Today, they seem back up. Not sure what the outage was due to, but they’re live now. I hate long (eg 1 day or more) outages where there seems to be no warning, or no exlanation. MSDN/TechNet site management needs a Mi... noreply@blogger.com (Thomas) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:44:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8277780 One of the issues that I was having with the Silverlight Spectrum emulator in Beta 2 was the performance. Sometimes it would be okay, sometimes it would be really jerky.  There was definitely issues to do with what was going on in your machine and other processes. With RC0 they introduced the C... noreply@blogger.com (chrishayuk) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:11:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8277840 Another busy week on TheDigitalLifestyle.com, the server decided to fill all the available disk space causing it to go down on Friday just I was travelling back from Microsoft, fortunately Richard Miller sent me an email and with the EEE PC and Internet Connection Sharing I was able to sort it out ... Ian Dixon Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:47:43 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8277781 I think this is a bug if not, i think it should be. If I set IsTabStop="false" on the TextBox then I can longer edit the control. I think this is wrong as it's conceivable that I don't want to tab onto it, but I still want to use the control. ... noreply@blogger.com (chrishayuk) Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:45:00 GMT http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/click/8277841 From my Blog on TheDigitalLifestyle.com Would you be interesting in meeting like minded enthusiast at meetup next year? I am planning a event in the UK for Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server and other digital lifestyle products enthusiast to meetup share tips and stories,see some of the lates... Ian Dixon Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:47:52 GMT