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Phil Winstanley

Recent Posts

• ASP.NET, Windows Forms and JavaScript Exception and Error Handling - Exceptioneer

  Posted: 14 May 2009 at 16:05 by Plip

  Exceptioneer is a hosted system designed for .NET folks to help identify, manage and resolve unhandled exceptions. When an Exception occurs within an Application, that exception and a range of platform specific details are transmitted securely to the Exceptioneer web portal where the data is analysed and for you to handle in your own way. We’ve implemented support for: - ASP.

• Find me at MIX09 and win a prize!

  Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 00:07 by Plip

  You may or may not be aware but my company is working on a TOP SECRET PROJECT at the moment. The project is specifically for .NET developers and will be infinately useful! There's nothing like it out there today and you could be one of the first few people in the world to play with it! Sometime during the next couple of weeks we'll be launching it publically and we want to choose the most daring and exciting .NET developers in the World to get free and early access to our TOP SECRET P

• Preparing for MIX09

  Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 00:06 by Plip

  In a little over 48 hours I'll be arriving in Las Vegas and hooking up with all the other web types for MIX09. While this is the third MIX event I've attended (I missed out on the first one) it's certainly the one I'm most excited to attend. So to help my MIX09 event attendance run smoothly I've decided to plan ahead a little. Meeting cool people is the main reason I'm coming to MIX09. So who are a few of the people I am looking forward to hanging out with and why ? Scott Cate - Old time AS

• Come party with us - Manchester - 3rd December (Free beer and food!)

  Posted: 28 Nov 2008 at 14:41

  Guys, Come and party with us on the 3rd December at the Circle Club in Manchester 18:00 onwards. http://sessions.screenedit.com/ We’ve even got a few design specialists who’ll be talking briefly! Please re-blog this where relevant. Cheers, Phil.

• VAT Rate Change to 15%

  Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 15:30

  Since the Millennium Bug nothing more serious has effected the United Kingdoms IT Systems.What does the VAT rate change mean for your business' systems?The VAT rate change is a very serious issue for your IT systems - make sure you are ready.http://www.VATChange.com

• DDD Site issue - Please help us and reblog this

  Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 16:36

  The DDD site DNS is broken.You can reach the site here: http://216.247.126.58/DDD/default.asp Please help us and reblog this if you're a UK blogger.Thanks Community!Cheers,Phil.

• FastHosts Review - A load of rubbish!

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 09:58 by Plip

  Here's an e-mail I got in response to telling FastHosts (for the third time) that my server was not well and that I was certain a disk was about to die (over several weeks so no sense of urgency here). FastHosts don't seem to care - any good host such as, ORCS Web, Rackspace or UKFast would be in th

• Which Developer Sites do you use?

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 17:43 by Plip

  A site that I've used for a long time has just relaunched with a new design and a community focused set of features. http://www.developerfusion.com/ Please do check out Developer Fusion :-)

• Manchester's Digital Underworld

  Posted: 15 Sep 2008 at 18:34 by Plip

    I was interviewed recently and here's the result - about half way through.    

• ReMix:UK 08

  Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 17:31 by Plip

  Each delegate will receive a Microsoft Expression Professional Subscription worth over £650 which contains; § Expression® Studio (Expression Web, Expression Design, Expression Encoder, Expression Blend, Expression Media) § Visual Studio® Standard Edition § Office Standa

• NxtGenUG Silverlight Manic Miner

  Posted: 03 Aug 2008 at 21:42 by Plip

  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. T

• Manchester Girl Geek Dinners

  Posted: 21 Jul 2008 at 19:34 by Plip

  Hey ! Just to let you know that on Friday 25th July there's another Manchester Girl Geek Dinner! http://www.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.uk/email/registration.php   Woo! Plip.

• Opera Dragonfly

  Posted: 06 May 2008 at 18:35 by Plip

  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 cu

• Techbash - Pennsylvania (not Transylvania I'm afraid - so no blood sucking Java Developers)

  Posted: 21 Apr 2008 at 23:38 by Plip

  Since its inception in 2005, TECHbash has evolved into the premier technology conference in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO’s and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. This one day event brings to

• DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper UK - November 22nd 2008

  Posted: 21 Apr 2008 at 16:21 by Plip

  Get the date in your calendars guys and gals - the good ship DDD is coming back and this time it's bigger and better :)

• The UK Developer community Rocks

  Posted: 15 Apr 2008 at 18:21 by Plip

  Video: UK Developer Community

• DDD Ireland - 3rd May - Galway

  Posted: 15 Apr 2008 at 17:28 by Plip

  Developer Event? Ah go on, go on, go on.     Check it out at www.DDDIreland.com   Cheers, Phil.

• Disconnect?

  Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 21:07 by Plip

    Short of yanking cables from walls I'd be hard pressed to do so ... Does anyone truly disconnect anymore?

• Developer Event - Oh Feck, I'd better write my session

  Posted: 09 Apr 2008 at 20:52 by Plip

  I'm speaking over in Galway on the west coast of Ireland on the 3rd of may for www.dddireland.com   There's a trailer video you can watch here for my session: - http://gamtug.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3E6F2F13756DBDAB!994.entry   I'M SORRY.   Ta, Phil.   Technorati Tags: Community

• Case sensitive usernames?

  Posted: 16 Mar 2008 at 22:40 by Plip

  Tonight I tried to login to my airline account (www.flyvlm.com) only to discover my username no longer seemed to be there.... or so I thought. I was typing in philwinstanley, turns out, it's actually PhilWinstanley. *grumble* Phil.