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Ian Smith has been an absolute king when it comes to documenting the Vista Squad meetings.  Dragging his equipment around London means we as a usergroup get amazing content to show users who could not make it to the meetups.

We’re now seeing a good set of content from our speakers and are available completely free and you are even able to download the WMVs if you would prefer to watch them offline or on another device.

Coming soon will be IPhone compatible videos which after seeing a sample on Ian’s phone, I cannot wait for this to happen.

So head on over to our Vimeo site where we host the videos, and download away!

http://www.vimeo.com/vistasquad

Just opened Google Reader on my N95 and WOW.  A complete overhaul on the interface that makes reading a pleasure.  Bigger text, smoother fonts and a much tighter UI, its a step in the right direction.

Looking for an official announcement, but nothing on the official blog yet.

Thanks to everyone that popped on over to Vista Squad last night in Victoria. Damn good turnout and I think it all went pretty well. We managed to give out our copy of Vista and I definitely think I’ll pull out some of the Technet Plus subscriptions for next time.

Hope to see you all next time, 18th of June is the next meetup. Keep a check on the website for the full details and speaker confirmation. We definitely have Stephen Lamb booked in for one of the talks but are still looking for the developer slot. So if you’re interested, have some interesting tech you’ve been playing around with, drop us an email or comment and we can get talking.

Cheers!

Video Sharing startup Vimeo seems to be struggling with uploads and conversions at the moment.  See below for the page that came up when I wanted to view the video I just uploaded.

Has anyone ever migrated content ( source control, users, work items ) from an existing TFS 2005 installation to a new 2008 installation?  My 2005 box is built on old 2005 beta code that was then upgraded to 2005 RTM and survived a crash.  I’m not too confident that it will survive a 2008 upgrade so I’m looking for a mechanism to migrate the content across.

Any ideas?

Crazy Man from Ray Booysen on Vimeo.

I’m speaking at tomorrow’s Vista Squad meeting in London at the Microsoft offices in Victoria.  I’ll be giving a talk on Vista Tips and Tricks.  Even though Vista has been out for quite a while, there are a lot of settings and options that some users might not know about and I hope to cover these tomorrow.

Hopefully the audience won’t know all of them as the user group does seem to have quite a large number of power-users.

If you’re in the area tomorrow night, head on over, you’re more than welcome.  More details here.