Phil speaks about community and WebDD

Friday, 22 May 2009

As a big part of our commitment to community we helped to run a conference in Reading called WebDD ‘09 for Web Developers and designers. Whilst at the event Mike Ormond of Microsoft interviewed Dave Sussman of Ipona and Phil Winstanley of Pixel Programming. What are your thoughts on Community?
   
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Does your furniture fight back?

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Microsoft Surface is all over the Web in sexy looking videos and slick advertising material, however there's very little information in actually working with it from a Development perspective. With such a powerful unit, it's not all that surprising, working with Microsoft Surface is quite expensive setting the barrier to entry for developers very high. Whilst at MIX we were lucky enough to run into Dr Neil Roodyn who told us that he would be delivering Microsoft Surface training whilst in the UK , and he very kindly asked us if we'd like to attend the training as he's aware of the kind of work
   
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I beg your pardon?

Monday, 23 March 2009

You’re deep in thought, diligently completing the form in front of you; name, address, password, confirmation of the password (why do I have to type it in twice you might think to yourself?) and then more detail. On completing the form you excitedly click the ‘Submit’ button and wait with baited breath for the ‘Success’ message to appear. Alas, it never arrives, instead in its place there’s an unintelligible series of words and numbers more akin to Ancient Greek than your native language. You have in fact received an Error message, but now what do you do? You’re
   
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ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Friday, 20 March 2009

An article by Omar Al Zabir explains 10 easy ways to make ASP.NET and AJAX web sites faster, more scalable and support more traffic at lower cost. Omar Al Zabir is the CTO of Pageflakes one of the best mashups. Main points he has discussed in this article ASP.NET pipeline optimisation ASP.NET process configuration optimisation Things you must do for ASP.NET before going live Content Delivery Network Caching AJAX calls on browser Making best use of Browser Cache On demand progressive UI loading for fast smooth experience Optimise ASP.NET 2.0 Profile provider How to query ASP.NET 2.0 Membership tables
   
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Opera Dragonfly

Friday, 20 March 2009

Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser, and fits in nicely with the development workflow. The current feature set is as follows: JavaScript debugger DOM inspector CSS inspector Command Line to allow commands to be inputed Error Console that outputs validation errors and warnings exhibited by the CSS and JavaScript connected with the page Proxy to allow debugging directly on mobile devices The current
   
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Silverlight Manic Miner

Friday, 20 March 2009

http://www.nxtgenug.net/manicminer NxtGenUG Co-Founder Richard Costall & Member Pete McGann are pleased to announce their “Silverlight” Manic Miner game Beta is now live on the NxtGenUG site. Manic Miner was originally written by Matthew Smith, under games company Bug-Byte in 1983. The game was a landmark title in the history of gaming. The original classic features 20 caverns to negotiate, and Pete and Rich had lovingly created 9 of these so far, with more to follow shortly. Silverlight Manic Miner shares a custom built ‘time based’ engine with an XNA version of the
   
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