But it works on my PC!

Please to say there is a new .NET usergroup leeds-sharp.co.uk in Leeds, their inaugural meeting is on the 31st of May. I hope to be able to make it if I am in Yorkshire that day.

Got back from holiday today to find my DDDSW (26th May) session on unit testing in Visual Studio 11 has been accepted.

I see the event is already full, but hope to see some of you there

As part of the on-going effort in documentation I have recently published more documentation for the TFS build extension project activities

• AssemblyInfo
• CodeMetric (updated) and CodeMetricHistory
• File
• Twitter

I have proposed a session for DDD South West, why don’t you?

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at NEBytes last night, sorry I had to rush away. As my session was demo based I don’t have much in the way of slides to upload, but if you want to find out more have a look at my guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog on ‘TFS for Everyone’.

Also keep an eye on the Black Marble site for upcoming free webinar sessions on the same subject

I will be speaking at the NE Bytes user group next Wednesday (the 15th of Feb) on ‘TFS for Everyone’.

This a session based on the guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog  I did on how TFS is not just for .NET developers. It can be used from a whole range of development platforms and operating systems. I will be including demos using Eclipse and Ubuntu.

Hope to see you there.

Updated 9 Feb 2012 – here is the registration link http://nebytesfeb2012.eventbrite.co.uk

A new 1.3.0.0 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been published today. This contains some fixes  and two new activities

• SPDisposeChecker – checks for SharePoint best practice
• CatNetScan – checks for common security issues

Agile Yorkshire is kicking off the New Year on the Tuesday Jan 10 at Old Broadcasting House, Leeds where the subject will be Extreme Programming(XP). The session will be based around an Extreme Hour: a hands-on XP project miniature with no coding experience required. Then off to be pub to continue the chat.

Unfortunately I cannot make the session, but I am sure it will be interesting, especially if you have not tried an Extreme Hour.

We got a good turn out of Black Marble staff at this years Age UK Abbey Dash 10K in Leeds. We were amongst over 8000 runners who turned out for a cool and foggy Yorkshire Sunday morning run.

We had a handicap race amongst ourselves, using a wisdom of crowds poll to estimate everyone target time. This was won by Steve Spencer our Development Director. He beat his target by 20 minutes. I am not sure whether this says more about his fitness or our staff’s opinion of him!

Congratulations to all who took part, I am sure plenty of good causes benefited from the efforts of everyone who ran

Whilst I have been on holiday Black Marble have announced some new events and this time they are not just in the UK, we have a couple in our new Dublin office location. The programme up to new year is:

• 17 Nov 2011 (Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford)
  • Am - Delivering High Impact WebSites with SharePoint SharePoint 2010 creates a dynamic and striking internet experience for your users.
  • Pm - A Guide to Successfully Adopting the Cloud for IT Managers This session will be exploring the business value of cloud computing with Microsoft Windows Azure.
• 30 Nov 2011 (Black Marble office Cleckheaton)
  • Am- TFS for the small team – hosted in the cloud I’m doing this one and I will be talking about the hosted version of TFS, its UI, the new features it exposed from TFS vNext.
• 6 Dec 2011 (Dublin)
  • Am - The Right Tools for your Application Lifecycle This session will discuss how this Application Lifecycle Management process can be managed, and what are the right tools to do that – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
  • Pm - An Afternoon of Windows 8 Following the fanfare, what is there in Windows 8 for developers and the IT professional?
• 8 Dec 2011 (Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford)
  • All day - Architecture Forum in the North 4 The top Microsoft Architecture Forum in the UK returns for its fourth year.
• 26 Jan 2012 (Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford)
  • Am - Black Marbles Annual Technical Update for Microsoft Technologies – 2012 Return of our roadmap for all things Microsoft!
  • Pm - Implementing the Secure Development Lifecycle in your ALM Process A look at how implementing Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) into your development process can improve quality, reliability and long-term maintainability.

Hope to see you at some of these events, I won’t be at all of them due to client commitments, shame I enjoy doing these.