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alex_norcliffe

@chriscanal @scottgal hehe Twitter: the perfect place to completely nail differences of opinions on architectural approaches :P about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to chriscanal
@hhariri except when coding. definitely don't replace try-catch with do about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to hhariri
1000² cuts 1:33 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
Grumpydev Bill Gates is fighting disease, Elon Musk is sending us to the stars, and yet people talk about Steve Jobs like he was the bloody messiah. 7:03 AM May 25th via MetroTwit Retweeted by alex_norcliffe and 56 others
@JustinAngel (I'm in the UK) @keyboardP 9:19 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
@JustinAngel did you mean WP7? blogpost refers to Bing maps in general and my Lumia 800 has no traffic option in Bing maps @keyboardP 9:18 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
@scottgal only way round it was to use the extern alias compiler / VS feature in my code to bind explicitly to the newer Remotion.Linq 7:31 AM May 25th via TweetDeck in reply to scottgal
@scottgal had prob with NH 3.3 as they ILMerged Remotion.Linq but I use a newer version of it. NH hasn't changed namespaces so can't compile 7:31 AM May 25th via TweetDeck in reply to scottgal
@scottgal does it allow you to change / prefix the namespaces of merged assemblies so you don't conflict with others? 7:30 AM May 25th via TweetDeck in reply to scottgal
The number of pull reqs in a week for Umbraco 5 admin translations is awesome - Chinese, French, Spanish, more.. sweet #h5yr 6:02 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
patrickwintour It is inexplicable that Adam Smith resigned judging by his Leveson evidence. He cannot remember doing anything wrong, or in fact anything. 3:46 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by alex_norcliffe and 113 others
+1 nice fella MT @brianleroux: @gblock is a killer good speaker. really nice seeing microsoft neat things and being cool about it. #we2012 3:37 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
Congratulations to IE10 beta which has taken my 4-core CPU to 100% just displaying a paused video 3:11 AM May 25th via TweetDeck
@nokia_uk two DM fails in 2 minutes :) 3:08 AM May 25th via TweetDeck in reply to nokia_uk
UmbracoTV Check out our fun new video for Umbraco.TV that was done in house by the fabulous @pgregorynz - youtu.be/NWVwpVfIJDE 2:41 AM May 25th via TweetDeck Retweeted by alex_norcliffe and 10 others
@drobar @rsoeteman @AnthonyDotNet :) I asked as it's odd having diff x86 vs x64 but since SqlCe uses specific native dlls diff could be real 2:09 AM May 25th via TweetDeck in reply to drobar
@DJNorcliffe wow he's growing up fast!! 2:57 PM May 24th via TweetDeck in reply to DJNorcliffe
@drobar hmm that's interesting - is it using SqlCe or Express? Also SSD or HDD? Cheers 2:57 PM May 24th via TweetDeck in reply to drobar
@David_Lighty also did you do the stuff in the readme (specifically the log4net config changes)? 2:12 AM May 24th via TweetDeck in reply to David_Lighty
@David_Lighty brill! do you have the Session errors and issue details to mail over? thanks for testing! 2:11 AM May 24th via TweetDeck in reply to David_Lighty

Name Alex Norcliffe
Location London
Web http://boxbinary.com
Bio English dev/program manager; ASPInsider; Lead Architect Umbraco 5 (OSS); Microsoft Regional Director; Intl Tech Lead Vogue.com, Wired, GQ.com (Condé Nast 07-10)