Most of you are probably familiar with the ITypedList interface. This old post of mine shows a potential use case, and there are lots of other reasons to make use of this powerful way of influencing the mechanics of .NET data binding. Implementing the interface is easy enough, but an interface implementation is really rather an inconvenient way of attaching a set of property descriptors to a collection — so it regularly happens that we have a collection instance at some point in our code, an …

You thought DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day was the least easily pronouncable name for a community event? Well, try this on: NxtGenUG is organizing NxtGenUG — Fest07 (actually I have the suspicion that it’s harder to type than to pronounce after all)! It’s a community event, I guess, being organized by a user group, but then it’s not the same type of free event we’ve seen in the past. As a non-member of NxtGenUG it costs money to attend — I’ll be interested to see whether that works out for t …

I’m going to be at NxtGenUG Birmingham next Monday, talking about LINQ Extensibility. Here’s information about the event — looking forward to meeting you there!

Speaking of grok talks in conjunction with DDD 5, there’s also a meeting of the London .NET User Group coming up on Feb 22nd, that focuses on grok talks on Windows Vista and Office 2007. Last I heard, Ian was still looking for attendees as well as volunteers for the grok talks themselves, so if you want to be there or even help out, be sure to let him know!

June 30th, 2007 it’s going to be. Session proposals are not accepted yet, that is planned for March. I expect sooner or later there’ll also be an “official” announcement on the DDD web page, so this is just a first heads-up. One thing that was first tested at DDD 4 were the grok talks in the lunch breaks, and as they were a great success, the organizers are planning to keep them up. So if you’ve never spoken at such an event before, and a 1 hour sessions seems rather to you, consider coming up …

Karsten Januszewski announces Blend Beta 2 (yes, and Expression Design Beta 1 as well — personally I’m not as excited by this). Nice to hear we’re moving forward on this… let’s just hope Microsoft doesn’t repeat the Expression Web blunder with this. Posts I’ve read lately point to the possibility that they haven’t learnt anything in this regard, and I’m wondering how much time it is worth investing if I’m not going to use it anyway. …

I have previously written about this, and today I’ve had occasion to set up another server. I found out some details doing that, so I thought I’d post an update (as much for my own benefit in case I need to do it again, as for anybody else’s). So, last time I had been wondering about the problems I saw with the SVNService — basically it didn’t seem to be included in the package. After I had finished the whole process, I had had the idea that maybe the problem was a result of the fact that I sk …

Just upgraded BlogJet to version 2. Just looking at the application is quite a treat now — it’s just really pretty. At a glance, they also added made some important changes, like the fact that I can now switch between various blogs in the toolbar, as opposed to basically restarting the application like they did before. Gives me more confidence in the application, somehow.

At the same time, some important features I have requested in the past appear to be still missing. I’ll have to look up th …