JohnBs personal blog

If you’re into LARGE scale enterprise stuff then these webcasts will be of great interest to you - all about how microsoft.com is built, put it this way there’s a lot of webservers and an awful lot of traffic

This week i’m on a VB.Net (Gasp!) course up in London so i’m having to catch a train then the tube to get me to my destination…I love my iPod so naturally it’s with me each day but i got fed up of having my iPod at max volume (The French are to blame for EU wide volume limitations) and still being able to hear the train noise etc etc….so in my lunch break i nipped out to the Apple Store on Regents street and picked up myself a pair of Sennheiser CX300 Noise Isolating earphones. Oh my god - the difference between the £20 stock headphones and these little beauties is phenomenal - for a mere £40!! They sit right in your ear canal and block all external noise (be careful crossing the road) consequently you feel totally immersed in the music and I tell you, you can’t hear a tube training approaching over music! Hey Apple, what about a headphone free iPod option….? Let the consumer decide what eaphones to get maybe?

The Microsoft project ‘Atlas’ - akin to Adobe Spry has received it’s final naming. Name spaces will also be changed from atlas: to asp: and will be integrated into the next release of Visual Studio. Read more at Scott Guthrie’s blog.