The Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft are bringing their cloud based Azure Services Platform Roadshow to Black Marble’s HQ here in Bradford. Same great food you get at all our events … as well as great content! Takes place on 13 February (9:30 registration for 10:00 start), here at BIC, Angel Way, Bradford, …

Black Marble’s Annual Technical Update returns on the 21st January at 2pm … and we’re ready to reveal what little gems you may have missed in 2008, and what you can expect in 2009 and beyond. If you’ve never been to a Black Marble event before, this is a great introduction, it covers the products you know, and those …

Once again, Black Marble, with friends and family, had a great Xmas lunch at the Chaophraya in Leeds. Everyone who attended enjoyed the food, the company and the great gifts! I’m now looking forward to the first Annual Black Marble Magic Show in the New Year on our next Home Day! I would like to take this opportunity …

The latest selection of Black Marble Xmas cards have a distinctly sci fi theme … We are particularly fond of the snowman below inspired by our devs regular game playing! Have a very Halo Xmas.

Update – just needed to correct myself … it is a Kringle-O-Tron not a Robot Santa! D’oh! In case you missed it … we are providing cut out and keep Santa and Kringle-O-Tron with our online Xmas cards this year. They make up wonderful little models, with just folding and cutting! As we can testify to by the number dotted …

Following the wonderfully successful Black Marble Brigade Xmas Card in 2007, we are back with a great set of designs this year too. Graphics Girl has produced a wonderful ‘traditional’ card (above) that will have landed on your desk this year … as well as a selection of others that didn’t quite make the cut … we had …

At Black Marble we try to always go one step further, one of the popular things we do is to get international varieties of coke and other pop/soda from Korean to American. This December, the Guest Cokes filling your fridge include the very exotic Irish variety of regular coke … and also a French Diet Coke! Enjoy.

Black Marble hosted the first Architecture Forum in the North today and despite the treacherous weather conditions, there was a great and enthusiastic turnout. The day opened with Matt Deacon, Chief Architectural Advisor from Microsoft espousing on Sustainable IT, followed up by Simon Thurman, a Microsoft Architecture …

We are always pushing automation of our processes at Black Marble … and here’s one that gadget that would only require minor tweaking to make my life easier … … now I just need to replace that little animal with a developer … (my thanks to Engadget for inspiration)

On Wednesday, we ran another of our triple-event days; great range of products covered and a lot of positive feedback. We started with m’learned colleagues Rik and John demonstrating all you need to know about Microsoft CRM 4.0. A hearty lunch readied the room for MSDN’s Eric Nelson and Mike Taulty from Microsoft and …