In case you hadn’t realised it, but at Black Marble we LOVE Xmas! Not only have we decorated the office … but we’ve also added some festive fun to our website! The top banner looks great this year, and as ever the Managers have slipped into their Xmas finery …. And of course, not forgetting our Xmas card … another …

A sensible plan This is a torrid tale of frustration and annoyance, tempered by the fun of digging through system commands and registry entries to try and get things working. We’ve been restructuring our network at Black Marble. The old single subnet was creaking and we were short of addresses so we decided to subnet …

Episode Two of this year’s Xmas Card Adventure is now live on our website – want to know what the BMBrigade find on reaching their destination? What has happened to Santa?! Can our heroes’ Windows Phone 7’s help save the world this Xmas?? Enjoying the adventure? Watch out for Episode Three on 8th December, when General …

… from Black Marble this December Black Marble has always been proud of its strong credentials for the work we do, and this year we are encouraging our customers to take advantage of them too! This year we have 5 Great Reasons for you to take out a Visual Studio Health Check from Black Marble:

1. Gold ALM Partner – …

The voting has opened for DDD9, As with all the DDD style events the agenda is set by you, the attendees, so get in there any say what you are interested in, it is not as if there is not a great choice this time. I have a session up on writing custom build activities for TFS 2010 which I hope some of you will find …

It’s that time of year again … Santa has been kidnapped and the only team that can save him is the Black Marble Brigade! And what great tools do the team have at their disposal this year?! Why Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Surface! There is no limit to what use these can be put to to save Santa and Christmas in 2010. …

Did you miss the Typemock session on mocking legacy system this week? If you you can watch a recording at the Typemock site. If you are interested a more SharePoint specific session check out my session next week.

The Kinect works by projecting infrared dots and mapping the distortion to find out what is happening in the world Audrey Penven a photographer has taken some stunning pictures with an infra-red camera of how this works http://www.flickr.com/photos/audreypenven/5197391931/in/set-72157625454305998/ Just keep pretending …

When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, no matter how hard you try there’s always the chance the the content database upgrade process will throw out errors about features being referenced that are not present in the farm. We have used Stefan Goßner’s WssAnalyzeFeatures and WSSRemoveFeatureFromSite (see his …

Thanks to everyone who turned out from Rik’s and my session last night at NEBytes. I have not bothered uploading my slides as it was really a demo driven session, but there is a video of a similar session I did at NDC2010 However, if you want to learn more about using Typemock Isolator with legacy system why not …