Seems yet again my sessions for a DDD event did not excite the voting public; the selected sessions for DDD9 are out and I am not on the list. Again it does look a nice varied selection of sessions. I have tried to see if I can see a trend in what is being selected, but it seems a fair mix between language feature …

as the phone 7 hacks start rolling in, I thought I would keep a list, still no HTC hacks Samsung Hacks http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/easy-hack-enables-usb-tethering-on-wp7-phones/ …

For all of you who know that I am a big big fan of StyleCop, I am super pleased that Doug Holland has released is a new update of a set of really good code snippets Get them here I would recommend reading Doug's blog posts for the last two updates, well worth the effort.here and here Doug also has some StyleCop …

Last week was really exciting for me and my colleagues here at Black Marble as the work we’ve been doing with a partner came to fruition. Words and Pictures are a communications agency based not far from us, and we’ve been working together on a great product that builds upon SharePoint 2010 to greatly improve content …

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. …