The chaps at M$ have released a new version of OOMPH, imagintivly titled OOMPH2. OOMPH is designed to make micro formats more accessible to dev’s and designers, but is is just a great tool to have installed in IE, try it and see. get it here b.

A contingent of the Black Marble staff will be heading to Las Vegas in less than two weeks to attend the Microsoft SharePoint 2009 Conference. if you are going please look us up, I will be presenting on a subject jet to be announced so keep tuned. b.

I would like to thank everybody who came to our first BizSpark event, I understand that everybody enjoyed themselves and are signing up to either Biz or Website Spark. I would also like to thank Business Link Yorkshire for attending and offering solid business advice. We will be announcing follow-up BizSpark events …

Everybody knows I like a verification tool as I think they are a solid way to enable a solid basis for quality, the argument against is that they do not get every case and so the argument goes we should settle for 20% MK1 human eyeball standards. I am a firm believer in both and so I was made up when Microsoft released …

At 9.00pm GMT, Ewan Fairweather will be running a webcast on Performance of BizTalk 2009 both on Hyper-V and Physical Deployments. Register for the upcoming TechNet Webcast: BizTalk Server 2009 Performance on Hyper-V and Physical Deployments (Level 300) for those of you who don’t know Ewan he co-authored the successful …

I have been a long standing fan of Richard Feynman and so I have spent the last few days watching some of his best lectures, Uncle Bill in conjunction with Microsoft Research has made ( both technically and financially ) the Messenger Feynman lectures available under the banner Project Tuva The MSR team has spent a lot …

Black Marble was down at AIC yesterday, not only were we proud to sponsor such an event but we also ran some sessions and breakouts. Thanks to everybody who attended sessions I was involved in. For those of you who attended the discussion on Architecting Quality, I thought it was a good session with a set of fairly …

no this is not some strange kind of maths statement, a bit late (oops) but it is just that the first social media sites that exited me is now the ripe old age of 5. if you feel the need to celebrate as well you can hear Don Box and Chris Anderson serenade (in a oh so disturbing way) the Channel 9 Guy here if developers …

The ever lovely people at the Microsoft CSD have launched a site to promote learning WCF. The site has a couple of overview videos to help you understand why WCF takes producing quality connected services easier and faster. The site also collects a great bunch of material to get you started or improve your existing WCF …

I will be speaking at the AIC on the 8th of May on Modelling with Oslo for Architects. There are some truly great speakers at the event however I have just head that it is already full. I hope to see some of you there b.