We’ve now got over 90 UK developer blogs being archived on Developer Fusion, so I’ve now put up an OPML feed so you can easily add these to your own aggregator. See http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/archive/ for the blog archive, and http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/blogs/list.aspx for the list of blogs being aggregated, and the OPML links.
If you’ve got a blog that’s not listed there and … Read more “OPML Feed for UK Developer Blogs”
If you’re a student, and haven’t already checked out the Imagine Cup, then its definitely worth a look – for one thing, you could win $25,000 in the top prize for the Software Design Challenge! Any student who registers before April 1st will get a FREE copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition, plus free membership of theSpoke Premium. … Read more “Students: Get your entries in for the Imagine Cup!”
Update: See http://weblogs.asp.net/james_crowley/archive/2005/09/06/424539.aspx
Just found out that ASP.NET 2.0 doesn’t support dynamically loading “bindable” templates from a file; you’re restricted to writing them inline. In other words, if you’re using a FormView or DetailView control, and plan to use the new two-way data binding features, any use of LoadTemplate is out of the window. Plus the BindableTemplateBuilder (for creating a … Read more “Dynamically loading ASP.NET 2.0 “Bindable” templates”
Just thought I’d post to let people know – I’m about to start listing UK Developer Jobs on Developer Fusion. If any of you have an open position that you need filled in the UK – and would like some free advertising, then please drop me a line, and we can get the job listed. Note that if you’re from … Read more “Free UK Developer Job Listings”
Gen ’05 is a series of events Microsoft are running at Universities around the UK for students with an interest in technology. In February, they’ll be visiting
Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/academia/gen05/
I’ve just updated the VB.NET -> C# and C# -> VB.NET code converter on Developer Fusion – a large number of bugs have now been squished! Check them out at http://www.developerfusion.com/utilities/
The utility uses the conversion code from the #develop IDE, and any bugs we come across I’ll be fixing and integrating into the #develop code too. Let me know … Read more “Converting VB.NET code to C# (and back again) – V2”
If anyone’s ever tried to move domain, you’ll know its a pain. One way to make things a little easier is to provide an automatic 301 redirect from your old domain to your new one – this marks the new destination as a permanent change, and will generally be picked up by search engines.
IIS provides an easy way to … Read more “Permanent 301 Redirect with QueryString in IIS”
Scott Guthrie is in London on 17 Feb to give an MSDN Technical Briefing on “Introducing ASP.NET 2.0”. If there’s a “father” of ASP.NET, Scott Guthrie’s the guy! You can register at https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118753660 – I imagine the places will go fairly quickly.
It’s been an amazingly productive day! We’re now also aggregating RSS feeds from a whole host of UK developers – you can view them here . The list was predominently stolen from Tim Sneath’s list of .NET bloggers – but if I’ve missed anyone, please do drop me a line.
I’ll stop shamelessly promoting my site now – honest ;,,)
I’ve *finally* gotten around to creating a UK events listing on Developer Fusion – you can check it out at http://www.developerfusion.com/events/. If you know of any other upcoming UK events, then let me know. I haven’t quite got the submission system up yet, but you can just drop me an email and I’ll add them.
This isn’t a new programme, but it seems a lot of people have never heard of this, so here goes….
If you are a *UK* organisation that sells Microsoft products, or provides solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies to third-party customers, then you can qualify to purchase the Microsoft Action Pack for £199. You just need to be a … Read more “£16,000 worth of Microsoft software for only £199!”
Julien McArdle posts here about a very high level Internet Explorer vulnerability – affecting IE 6 with Windows XP SP2. I sure hope MS gets a patch out quick – this one is of the “delete all files in the windows directory” level… Nice 😐