http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/ Lincolnshire Microsoft Developers Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:43:00 GMT nigellaurentius http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/21 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/21 From our good friends north of the border: "Hi everyone, This is a last call for speakers for Developer Day Scotland. The call for speakers will close at 23:59 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:45:41 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/20 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/20 Nope, never had that problem, loads of others but not that one ... too. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:10 GMT nigellaurentius http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/19 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/19 Over the past day or so, when I compose a new e-mail and sometimes when replying to e-mails, Outlook seems to lose the Subject line, so recipients see a blank Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:44:25 GMT nigellaurentius http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/18 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/18 The Developer Day Scotland Call for Speakers is now OPEN! The session submission guidelines and instructions are available here: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:38:44 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/17 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/17 If you want to install all the tools you need to develop ASP.NET pages for free - on your home machine for example - MS have released this at Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:56:23 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/16 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/16 MS are currently running a promotion for their MSDN Flash newsletter. If you sign up using the link below you will be entered into a draw to win an XBox 360 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:03:27 GMT Lloyd Brookes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/15 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/15 Yeah, investigated it pretty seriously a few years ago.. it was a fairly complete implementation of .NET 1.1 (at that point) but light on, or just missing the Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:47:29 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/14 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/14 However if you are a *nix developer and want to try .NET out, it offers a good starting point. More info at http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page if anyone is Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:36:13 GMT nigellaurentius http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/13 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/13 In terms of encouraging uptake it's a shame that WPF isn't even on the radar for the Mono guys, it'd probably be a sticking point for me if I were to be using Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:29:15 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/12 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/12 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/mono_two/ The latest release of Mono, the Open source implementation of .NET is released today. Could this help the Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:13:48 GMT Steve Barker http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/11 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/11 Hi Karl, I'm not quite old enough to remember punch cards, but have been around a while now! At the risk of sounding like an M$ salesperson, TFS and VSTS are Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:52:24 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/10 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/10 Welcome aboard Steve. There's a few of us here on the list work at a company in Lincoln where the vast majority of the development has been in PHP and Perl but Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:18:24 GMT Steve Barker http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/9 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/9 Greetings all! I'm a M$ developer, and have been for over eight years. I started with VB/VBA, and then moved onto .NET not long after the Beta came out. I've Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:54:16 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/8 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/8 Duncan Welcome to the group. I'm assuming you work in some kind of MS development role, what sort of technologies have you used? Look forward to hearing about Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:47:38 GMT Karl Bown http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/7 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/message/7 Absolutely. As I said it's the usage that the technology is put to that determines its worth. I hope it is used to add value to the user experience rather than