We are delighted at Black Marble to announce a great series of events to brighten your days through the darkness of Autumn and Winter. Kicking off in September with the first of four Visual Studio events exploring the different products available – from Express to Ultimate – to help you determine which is best for you …

The Kodu team have an introductory video on teaching children to program with Kodu see it here The Consolarium have released a set of videos as an introduction to Kodu , see them here. They are a Centre for Games and Learning, established by Learning and Teaching Scotland to explore the world of computer games and help …

I have been using the Google Maps JavaScript API today. I lost too much time over a really stupid error. I was trying to set the zoom level on a map using the call map.setZoom(); I had set my initial zoom level to 5 (the scale is 1-17 I think) in the map load, when I called setZoom to 11 all was fine, but if I set it …

I have found a problem with repeated calls to indexed SharePoint Lists with Typemock Isolator 6.0.3. This what I am trying to do… The Problem I am using Typemock Isolator to allow me to develop a SharePoint Webpart outside of the SharePoint environment (there is a video about this on the Typemock site). My SharePoint …

I have a couple of new video’s on on the Typepmock Experts site, why not take a look, the titles are Using Typemock Isolator to enable rapid development Using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna for unit testing the UI

The VBug Autumn Conference is on the Wed 27th & Thurs 28th October at Holywell Park, Loughborough. The published agenda this far is **Day One (Wed 27th Oct):**Top of the Pops with Sharepoint 2010 – Dave McMahon Cache Out with Windows Server AppFabric – Phil Pursglove Mapping the Cloud – How far can we stretch it? …

I have posted in the past that I am not a huge fan of my phone, so I read Martin Hinshelwood’s experiences with putting Android on his HTC HD with interest. I have tended to leave my phone as a consumer device i.e. it does what it does, I tend to not fiddle too much as long as it will make calls, sync email and allow …

There is a noticeable omission form the tooling for StyleCop that you cannot integrate it into a TFS 2010 Build directly. There is a custom task to do it as part of MSBuild Extension pack, but this is designed for TFS 2008. So when I had to wire in StyleCop to our 2010 build process I hit a problem, I could Edit the …

Recently Packt Publishing sent me a copy of ‘Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010’ by Peter Ritchie, I have to say I have rather impressed by it. My only major issue with it is that of the title, this book covers much more than the refactoring features of 2010. It provides a very clear example driven …

There is a call for speaker for DDD in Dublin on the 9th of October, that is not that far away is it! [Updated 1 Sep 2010] The link would help http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/dddie10/