Update!

An update has pushed through on our O7 game that contains a vastly improved set of rules – 5 full screens, with animations to aid you play.

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Black Marble’s first WP7 game has been published onto the Marketplace, a game of strategy. Choose to grow the number of counters you have your jump squares to gain territory.

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The anticipated January  Developer kit update for Phone 7 is available here , it includes the October update as well as Emulator updates for Cut and Paste ( How to: Test Copy and Paste in Windows Phone Emulator. )

The cut and paste will only work on end user phones after they have received the actual phone update …

Microsoft have released an update for the Phone 7 Training Kit get it here

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I recently was asked why a client had experienced some unexpected results when merging a development branch back into the main trunk on a TFS 2010 installation.

Turns out the issue was that during some tests that the both the Main and Dev branches had been renamed, and new branches of the same names created. So they …

Consider this a reminder of all the different ways you can engage with Black Marble.

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A few days ago I got the regular ‘there is a new version of seesmic’ message.

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So I pressed update and got the less than …

Just spent an interesting hour trying to connect a Netgear WG111v2 USB WiFi Dongle to Netgear (Sky Branded) DG834GT router. They are both from the same manufacturer so you would they would work together!

This router was setup with its default Sky settings so WiFi was setup as WPA.

I installed the WG111 onto an XP …

I was busy for the few minutes that the DDD9 registration was open, so did not manage to get on the attendee list, but I have been try to keep an eye on that is going on at Twitter.

The good news is that there are more DDD events on the way

• DDD Belfast - March 2011
• DDD Scotland - May 7th 2011

Session submissions are …