This year, our artistic team has surpassed itself with another fabulous Christmas Card ... or book, and it is coming to a desk or doormat near you. 'Shape-Shifting Santa and the Merry Mutation Team' tells the tale of how the heroic Black Marble brigade once again saves Christmas by rescuing Santa from another Yuletide …

Black Marble is a supporting DDD North - the premier Developer Community event running in the North of England. Taking place at the University of Sunderland on Saturday 12 October, it has 400+ attendees, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors converging to hear their peers talk technical. Always free, thanks in the main to …

The Black Marble team is out at Build this week in San Francisco, having a great time and learning all there is to know about Windows 8.1 and other key Microsoft announcements. Follow the team on Twitter for updates, and check out our Facebook Album! If you want to follow it live, check out Channel 9.

Have you heard about the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp? Around the world in 80+ locations, community groups are running an Azure Bootcamp on the 27th April - mainly organised by MVPs, this is an event with over 3000 attendees! From the UK to the USA, in Asia, the Pacific and Australia - liked-minded individuals are …

We’ve been receiving fabulous feedback for our Christmas ‘card’ this year! To mark our 15th Anniversary, we decided to put together ‘A Fight Before Christmas’ based on the poem, ‘T’was the night before Christmas …’. We are delighted with the response and I thought I would put together some of them here. If you would …

We love Christmas at BM HQ and this year , we have a very special Christmas Card … Inspired by the the poem ‘A Visit by St. Nicholas’ (more commonly known by its first line, ‘T’was the Night before Christmas …’), the Black Marble Brigade have another great Christmas adventure, in book form – “The Fight Before …

The Northern wing of the UK’s premier Developer Community event is coming to Yorkshire on the 13th October. Here are some things you need to know The venue is the University of Bradford’s Management Centre. The agenda has now been published. Some accommodation suggestions are on organiser’s Andy Westgarth’s blog. He’ll …

Black Marble has made several Samsung SUR40s (Microsoft Surface 2) available for Rent throughout the UK and Ireland! So if you want an SUR40 for a one-off occasion such as a corporate event or tradeshow, either internal or external, please get in touch. The SUR40 is v2.0 of the Microsoft Surface, and Black Marble is a …

Do you enjoy our Black Marble events, but can’t always make it in person? Busy day at the office, mean you can’t attend a full or even a half day event? From 30 January 2012, we are introducing a series of online seminars – running most Mondays though to the end of June, we are covering a range of topics in bite-size …

Eagerly anticipating our Architecture Forum in the North – now in its fourth year! Taking place on 8 December here in Yorkshire, it is shaping up to be a great day! We have a great range of speakers lined up and this is a sample of what you can expect from some of the Microsoft Speakers: Andrew Fryer – Technical …