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A while back I toyed with the idea of moving all my blog assets (images, downloads, etc) over to a CDN just as a proof of concept and to sho...

Continuing on from my previous post on the best bits of Visual Studio 11, these are the demos that I showed as part of that talk. Testing ...

This evening I have just finished a talk on the best bits of the new VS11 beta entitled turned your Web Development up to 11 (thanks to Glen...

Last year I ran a series of online Live Meetings under the brand NNUG Online . NNUG Online was an idea I had on trying to get around the iss...

On the 6th of September I travelled to Oslo to attend the first day of TechDays 2011, the new brand for the TechNet and MSDN Live events. It...

Time for the obligatory MVP post. On the 1st of October this year, I was waiting for notification of whether or not I was going to be rene...

On the 8th of October 2011 the Developer Developer Developer (DDD) brand of conferences came to Sunderland in the form of DDD North . The U...

This post comes from a comment on one my earlier posts that the 70-515 prep guide was a little too much for the average person who is revi...

On Saturday 7th of May 2011,  I presented Defensive Programming 101 at DDD Scotland 2011 in Glasgow. This was the second time I have present...

Another new year, another set of posts to help you study for an exam. This series focuses on the objectives for the exam 70-516: MCTS Access...