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Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 with SP1
06 September 08 06:58 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

Today I got round to upgrading our TFS 2008 (dual server setup) with Team Server 2008 SP1 . I tried it first on my demo VPC I use for presentations (reminder I am at VBug Coventry at the end of the talking about TFS , a free event open to all). Anyway...

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Developer Day Scotland
11 May 08 10:11 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful. The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site . There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation...

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Community Launch Events
07 April 08 02:28 PM | Richard | with no comments

A busy time in the next few weeks for free community launch events for Windows 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008 . This week we at Black Marble are hosting a series of three evening events ( See online booking ) where you can see virtually the whole...

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March 2008 meeting of the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club
03 March 08 06:28 PM | Richard | with no comments

In a change from the usual venue in Leeds, the next meeting of the Extreme Programming club will be at Black Marble's office in Bradford. I will be giving a updated version of my DDD4 presentation on Cruise Control .NET . The fun starts a 7pm on Wednesday...

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Scottish Developers
13 February 08 02:47 PM | Richard | with no comments

Thanks to Colin Mackay for organising the Scottish Developers event in Glasgow last night; as promised I have uploaded the slide on TFS that I presented. I am already looking forward to seeing everyone again at Developer Day Scotland which is also being...

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Presenting at the first meeting of the Peterborough VBug group
31 January 08 10:18 PM | Richard | with no comments

I enjoyed presenting on TFS at the inaugural meeting of the P eterborough VBug group last night. Thanks to Jyoti Majithia (VBug regional administrator ) and Andy Westgarth (VBug chairman) for organising it. Hopefully this will be the start of another...

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SQLBits II (the sql)
23 January 08 10:25 AM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

Just heard my session Development Life Cycle using Visual Studio Team Edition for DB Professionals has been accepted for SQLBits II on the 1st of March in Birmingham. Thanks to everyone who voted for it, and I hope to see you there.

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Presenting in Glasgow
14 January 08 11:16 PM | Richard | with no comments

I will be doing a TFS and Continuous Integration session for Scottish Developers on the 12th of February

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And another possible session at SQLBits II
19 December 07 07:01 PM | Richard | with no comments

I also submitted a session for SQLBits II in Birmingham on using Visual Studio to manage the life cycle of DB projects. The voting for this community conference I assume opens in the new year as submissions close this weekend. It will be interesting to...

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Speaking at VBUG Peterborough
19 December 07 06:52 PM | Richard | with no comments

I will be speaking at what I think is the inaugural meeting of the Peterborough VBUG User group in Team Foundation Servers. For more details see http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/January-2008/VBUG-Team-Foundation-Server-with-Richard-Fennell.aspx Hope to see...

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Speaking at NxtGenUG Birmingham
20 September 07 06:37 PM | Richard | with no comments

I will be speaking at NxtGen usergroup Birmingham branch on the 17th December about, you guessed it TFS. Look forward to seeing you there.

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Last nights Bristol .NET Developers Network usergroup meeting.
20 September 07 06:33 PM | Richard | with no comments

As I sit on the train traveling north to our Black Marble hosted MSDN event I must write to say how much I enjoyed presenting at last night's . NET Developers Network usergroup meeting; thanks to Guy Smith Ferrier and the whole group for getting it...

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TFS and CruiseControl
09 September 07 09:23 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

I am speaking at the .NET User group in Bristol next week and have been putting some final touches to my demos. One thing I will be talking about is using CruiseControl with TFS . Whilst getting this running on my demo VPC I hit a problem. I did a default...

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My TFS wants an upgrade to 2008 and is sulking
06 September 07 11:18 AM | Richard | with no comments

I posted about the problems I had adding a user to a project TFS earlier this week. Well I have seen a similar problem again today, I added a new user to an AD group but they could not access the project until I restarted the Web Server process on my...

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DDD5, thoughts the day after...........
01 July 07 08:30 PM | Richard | with no comments

After not really enough sleep it seems a good time reflect on DDD5. My session I felt my session went well, and the initial feedback was good. It is always good to be asked question all day about your session, proves it got people thinking; I certainly...

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