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Readify's new State Manager for WA, Andy Lamb, has things well and truly up and running over in the west.  Per Andy's post from today, we will running an RDN in Perth later this month: On the 29th May in Perth, come and see our free seminar Silverlight with Alister Jones and Reactive Programming with LINQ by Paul Stovell. If you are in Perth, ...

One of the great things in readify is the ability to do Professional Development at scheduled intervals to keep up to speed with the latest industry technologies and advancements. My latest foray into this (amongst other things) has been looking at the ASP.NET MVC framework and Internet Explorer 8 WebActivities. Both of these technologies are ...

Fellow Readify guy, Steven Nagy has been kicking ass on some internal stuff that he's been doing with Notification Services.  Best bit is that he's also taken the time to share the knowledge.  Here's the a link to the latest instalment: Developmental: Notification Services - Part 4 - Managed API As an aside, I seem to remember hearing ...

As a customer it's always refreshing to receive a mock-up of the UI before you commit to the task of coding.  Lots of developers are good at doing this, but there are some who always seem to want to start down at the bottom - at the technology end.  When I'm a customer I actually enjoy being pretty dumb - show me the buttons, levers, and dials ...

Just a reminder, readify are hosting another WPF industrial strength training workshop with Ian Griffiths from Pluralsight as your host. If you want to get up speed with WPF and learn to make it really work for you, this is a great course. Some of the items he will cover include; WPF Framework Architecture Using Controls – a new approach to UI ...

People often ask me about the work/life balance thing now that I work permanently from home.  Look, sure it's easy to get caught up in your work and end up doing work before breakfast or at night - I'm not going to deny that.  And I don't mind it either. When looking at the work/life balance thing though, you need to look at both the positives ...

OK, in a week's time from now we'll all be putting on the shorts and heading for the beach for a few weeks of beer and beach cricket... but I want you to look a little further beyond that for now if I may.  In February we are lucky enough to have Jon Flanders from Pluralsight heading over to Australia to teach our 4 day Applied Windows Workflow ...

I took the opportunity to sit the WCF Beta exam a few days ago and I must say, it was very hard. Being beta, I don't find out the results until about 8 weeks later, but I reckon I didn't fare too well. I did book the test a little impulsively, however I saw the opportunity to do it, and only had a free day to do the test that was a few days later ...

I haven't used Liquid XML in some time and had forgotten how good value this little tool is. XML editing, instance document generation, schema validation and more, XPath query tool, all for free. The schema document visualisation is really strong too. Awesome tool, and hats off to Liquid Technologies for making such an awesome tool available free ...

Warning: Rant to follow: Ok, I know Outlook 2007 is a complicated piece of software. I know its gone through a whole series of revisions. Could I make a better piece of software? Well I'd like to think so, but the people at  Microsoft are smart people so it could be debatable. What I do know? Outlook 2007 is significantly less stable for ...