I’m currently at the SDC in the Netherlands and I’m having a pretty good time demonstrating our tools and components to everybody. CodeRush and Refactor! are of course always popular, but I’ve also talked to people about (and actually demonstrated!) XPO, the eXpressApp Framework and any number of isolated problems with our various products. Mainly there’s a lot of praise, and somebody actually shook my hand in passing, saying “thank you for bringing Developer Express here”.

There are many peop …

Today I attended an event here in London, organized by Microsoft and Computer Arts, titled Designing Next Generation User Experiences. It was a mixed experience, probably due to the fact that the attendees were very diverse in their backgrounds. In the end it provided good insight into the new Microsoft Expression tools and their role in next generation WPF applications. Most of these tools I had known already because their CTPs have been available for a while, but this was the first time I s …

Go here to see what the agenda of DDD day 3 looks like, and then register here. Finally, here’s the page for the Geek Dinner that’s being organized for the evening after the event. See you there!

Revolution is now Wii (as in “we”)… does that make it a wii revolution? It seems to be the time of year for really bad naming decisions. If they had consulted with Microsoft, maybe it would have been PowerWii… or is that Wii Power? I don’t get it. What was wrong with Revolution? And even if there was something wrong, why does it have to be Wii? The only advantage I can see is that the name for Wii’s successor is easy to guess — how does Nintendo Puuh sound to you? …

I thought these guys were worth a link: msexchangeforum.de I’m not going to say why.

I actually forgot to mention this so far: my session Designing a model based application architecture has been accepted for DDD day 3. I’m not sure what the status of public announcements is for the guys organizing everything around DDD (and I can’t look right now because my internet provider has a few problems this morning), so I’m just going to point you to my own earlier post for the session description.

And it’s available as an RC1 release here. Well… I’m pretty happy that Scott won’t feel obliged any more to push his Mush idea, but otherwise the name change is even worse than those for Avalon and Indigo were. IMO, of course. Well, back to my Turbo-IDE with my Hyper-sourcecode… oh wait, is that Mega-Outlook popping up a notification? …

I had a Subversion repository hosted on a Linux server that I wanted to migrate to a Windows server. I managed to do this, but it wasn’t all immediately intuitive, so I’m documenting the process here in case I need to do it again sometime, or someone else benefits from it. To begin with, I found the wonderful SVN 1-Click Setup, which promises to do the whole installation of SVN on Windows at the click of a button. I thought that would be a good thing and downloaded it (here).

The installation …