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If you are planning to use JSF 2.0.1 with Google App Engine 1.2.6 or are facing issues check out the details below. Setup steps: Following the steps provided in the jsf configuration guide on GAE website (see Resources :2) Replace the jsf-impl.jar with...
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I thought i would put out a quick blog idea for those people that may have missed some of this weeks virtualisation news. I also thought i would add some interesting tweets/links from tweets that have been making the rounds this week for those people...
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I am delighted that EMC Consulting is committed to being clear about 'its brand'. But do we collectively understand what a brand is and therefore value a brand management programme? What I am quite sure of is that each one of us has a point of view about...
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I've only had a smartmeter for a few days, but it's quite alarming how quickly I've become conscious, and slightly competitive, about how I use energy. The first I knew about it was a letter from my energy supplier, asking if I'd like one and inviting...
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The Experience Planning team first came across this Morgan Stanley presentation last year, and we found it to be one of the most insightful papers of 2008. This year’s presentation, looks equally essential reading. The insights related to the mobile web...
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For those of you who aren’t aware I am currently working out of the Netherlands. That’s one of the joys of being a consultant for a global organisation – you can literally end up anywhere! However, last night I had the please of speaking to the...
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Background Since ASP.NET 2.0, the framework has provided a localization model based on localizing text into RESX files. RESX files are compiled and deployed as part of the website, and referenced through declarative mark-up on your pages, cleanly separating...
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Andrew Fryer , Microsoft IT Pro evangelist extraordinaire, has 25 free tickets to give away for this Friday’s SQLBits SQL Server 2008 and R2 day! Head over to his blog here to find out how you can claim a ticket and bag yourself a great geeky day...
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I say my but really of course I mean “our” :o). It’s been a fantastic experience and I have got to know some great people and had a lot of fun, stress heartache and now joy. Big thanks to the team at Wrox, especially Ami and of course my fellow...
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Good things come to those who measure! I have been recently asked to investigate ways to reduce bandwidth utilisation of a WCF service and thought that it would not be a bad idea to share the results. The test was a relatively simple method call (search...
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For the last 6 months I’ve been leading a small team to deliver a “best of breed” ecommerce retail site, based on ASP.NET MVC , Sharp Architecture , NHibernate , Fluent NHibernate , Spark View Engine , N2CMS , Castle Windsor , xVal Framework , AutoMapper...
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In Scrum for Team System 2.x Product Backlog Items (PBI’s) lived a simple life. They had an iteration path, an area path and were linked to Sprint Backlog Items (SBI’s). Confusingly, the more common terminology for SBI’s amongst non TFS users is Sprint...
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Next week I’m speaking on Scrum in the Enterprise and Process Customisation with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles. There is far more to Scrum for Team System Version 3.0 than I can possibly cover in the allotted time so I’m supporting...
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Combining multiple SQL Azure databases into a single logical database turns out to be real easy using NHibernate.Shards. Just set it all up and go!...
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As awareness of Kanban grows, people are naturally wanting to learn more about it; especially if they’ve tried Scrum and found it challenging or failed to reap any perceivable benefits from it. At first glance, many people see the basic difference between...
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Quite a day: Google Chrome/Gears bug could have allowed hackers to execute malicious code on the user’s system and the iPhone gets worms down under . Trendy brands can't escape the reality that building robust/secure software is not trivial. Will they...
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For anyone that has read my previous blog postings or is a follower of my random ramblings on twitter you would know i have been preparing for my VCP4 exam for the past couple of weeks/months. I wrote it last Friday being filled with an unbelievable amount...
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I have just picked this up off Naked Wines Twitter feed : http://purplecircleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/amazon.html I think this an excellent example of proactive customer service, engagement and copywriting. It also serves to demonstrate the value of...
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Conference season is here again… the SharePoint Conference recently convened in Las Vegas with plenty of news about collaborating with SharePoint 2010. Next is Tech·Ed Europe which kicks of very soon in Berlin for which there are a couple of new and interesting...
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Well I’ve been here (the good ol’ US of A) for over two weeks now, my how the time has flown! And what are the major differences on this side of the pond vs UK? Is what I intend to write about here and when I can I’ll update on some of the work that I’m...
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I have spent some time investigating an issue relating to the configuration of WCF web services for SCT as described in this article and specific service accounts. It turns out that when your web service is setup like this and you assign a specific service...
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Do I like Madrid? I cannot really answer that given the brevity of my visit. They do have a really impressive airport – I’m guessing a Richard Rogers grand design? And the hotel had a neo-Spanish feel to it. Spain? Not really. But inspiring? Absolutely....
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The London IA event on the 11th November is not to be missed. For newbies, this is a celebration of all-things IA (that is, Information Architecture). EMC Consulting is delighted to be hosting this event – so head over to our offices (address below) for...
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If you’ve been following this blog, or those of my colleagues Howard and Jon , it’s probably been obvious that we love the Spark view engine . We’ve been using it in anger for the last 6 months or so on our latest Asp.Net MVC project and between us we...
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Following on from my last post on Lab Manager this is a quick tour on setting up workflow. You need to use a Lab Manager enabled template when creating your project. If you use our scrum for team system v3 beta 2 compatible template ( It’s cooking nicely)...
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