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Welcome!

On this server you will currently find the following:

Agregate Feeds
BM Bloggers - The agregate of all the blogs of the Black Marble staff.

Individual Black Marble Staff Blogs
Do programmers dream in Byte Code? - The blog of Robert Hogg
But it works on my PC! - The blog of Richard Fennell
When software attacks - The blog of Rik Hepworth 
Work Life - like park life, but paid better - The blog of Tom Wardill 
Andy Dawson's Blog - The blog of Andy Dawson
Steve Spencer's Blog - the blog of Steve Spencer
Mat Steeples' Blog  - the blog of Mat Steeples
James Mann's Blog - the blog of James Mann
Jon Fowler's Blog - the blog of Jon Fowler

External Blogs (Blogs hosted by Black Marble, but content not provided by our staff)
ImagineCup - The shared blog of the UK's Microsoft Imagine Cup 2007 Team
From the outside in - the blog of Iain Angus

What's New

  • Life with a Diamond: nearly two weeks on

    I said I'd post again once I'd had the Diamond a little while. It's now been two weeks and I can honestly say I'm completely happy with it. Battery life for me is fine - I charge it about every three days and it chugs along with exchange push pretty much constantly. I am quite comfortable with the soft keyboard and I can honestly say...
    Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 07-22-2008
  • Running Fitnesse.NET tests using MSTest

    I have been looking at Fitnesse.NET for a while; if you have not come across this testing tool I cannot recommend Gojko Adzic book highly enough; an excellent real world introduction to Fitnesse.NET. For me, the problem with Fitnesse is that it's WIKI architecture does not lend itself to working within our Team Foundation Server based development...
    Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-18-2008
  • Proof of concept for running Fitnesse tests via MSTest

    This zip file contains a VS2008 proof of concept solution for running Fitnesse.NET tests via MSTest. The solution contains 3 projects: A very basic WCF service that is the basis of a call tracking system,in reality there is little to test here, especially as we mock out the data access layer, but this is just a proof of concept. An assembly that contains...
    Posted to Sample Files (FileGallery) by Richard on 07-18-2008
  • Registration opened for SQLBits III (Cubed)

    I see that the registration (and hence session voting) has opened for the free community conference SQLBits III, I can't make it as it is the same day as Alt.Net . However, I really do recommend this event if you ever work with data (some of you do that don't you?)
    Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-18-2008
  • New Team System Power Tools

    The July edition of the Team System power tools have just been released. To pick out just one of a great set of tools - have a look at the Alert Editor, a really easy way to wire up external events handler to do things when TFS events occur.
    Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-17-2008

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