February 2010 Entries
I’ve been a big fan of PVRs for years, buying a TiVo for the few months they were available in the UK. I retired that and bought an Acer Aspire iDea 500 as soon as it was released in 2006, it being the first MCE machine designed for the UK; Core 2 Duo, quiet(ish), plenty of connections, including SCART, which given my ancient CRT TV is a requirement. To this day it’s one of the few, if perhaps only, machine with SCART. These days plasma and LCD TVs are easy to connect to, but any CRT TV in the UK...
Since I don’t have time to write books at the moment, I’m forwarding this to world. Packt Publishing, are expanding their portfolio and looking for books on Visual Studio Integration, Administration and Reporting. Packt Publishing today announced their plan to advance their line up of Enterprise focused titles, and invited potential authors with Visual Studio skills and book ideas. When it says today, it actually means last week, but I’ve just found out about it. If you’re interested in writing Visual Studio books, Packt wants to hear from you! Please visit the Packt Authors...
Gary has an interesting post about conference feedback, in particular around the usefulness of a session. As both a speaker and organiser, I was going to reply in the responses, but maybe it’s worth a broader audience. Is the usefulness of a session actually relevant to anyone at all? I go to plenty of sessions that aren’t useful in my day to day job, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good session or I didn’t enjoy it. Here’s what I make the choice based on: Do I have a pressing need to learn the topic...