One of the interesting pieces of work we get involved in are rescue projects. Rescue projects can be thought of projects that aren’t delivering or won’t deliver either to timescales, feature requirements or quality. In a rescue project there are many areas that normally need addressing: Project Management, …

If you are in the BizTalk world, I would recommend reading the BizTalk Hotrod. it looks like Todd has stepped down from BizTalk Hotrod , he mentioned he was moving when we were at TechED US last year. Rajinder has taken over and it looks like he is off to a cracking start. Get it here b.

As promised in several of my sessions here are a good list of useful resources to use when looking at Oslo and Dublin. The first port of call should be the Oslo dev centre on MSDN Microsoft have a Mg resource centre for grammars here Downloads The January Oslo CTP can be downloaded from Here The most current spec can …

Microsoft's CSA Ed Gibson returned to Black Marble on the 21 January to impress the importance of security on another roomful of IT professionals and developers. Another excellent presentation, raising some key points that everyone needs to address. b.

The usual suspects of Black Marble speakers presented on the Microsoft technologies from 2008 and the forthcoming developments for 2009. A rapid fire run through covered everything from Oslo to Windows 7 through Azure and Performance Point to System Centre. All the news, and milestones for Microsoft releases in 2009 …

PNMSoft joined us at our day of events on the 21st January, to speak on Business Process Management. A fascinating presentation by Gal Horvitz was greeted enthusiastically by the room. All in all, a successful session. b.

The Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft are pleased to announce a series of technical briefings, targeted at ISVs and Start-ups, focused on the cloud based Azure Services Platform (first announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in October 2008). Black Marble are delighted to …

One of the great announcements at the PDC was that Microsoft and DevExpress have done a deal to giveaway a version of CodeRush which includes some of the more popular features of CodeRush and Refactor Pro For those of you lucky enough to come to our evening event with the legendary Oliver Sturm, you will have already …

You can get a free copy of the excellent Vista Edition of “Writing Secure Code” Here b.

At the start of December Black Marble was very proud to co-host Architecture in the North with Microsoft. I would like to thank everybody who came and to the great Microsoft speakers who came to educate us all. Session Decks Sustainability from Data Centre to the Cloud - Matt Deacon Architecture Guidance - Simon …