I had not checked the site for a while, but my Microsoft Techdays session on Lab Management is now available as a video I cannt make it embed here, some Community Server issue I assume, so look for it on the developer track on the second day. It is called 'Putting some testing in your TFS build process"

As do many people I have a good number of TFS2008 style builds for legacy applications. I will, in the end, move these over to VS2010 and hence upgrade their build formats to the new 2010 workflow based one, but for now it would be nice to be able to run them with the minimum of effort. To this end I have done some …

The Visualization and Modelling Feature Pack for VS2010 Ultimate is now available from here it is only available for MSDN subscribers. The Feature pack allows you to generate code from UML class diagrams,create UML class diagrams from code,Generate dependency graphs and layer diagrams for C, and C++ projects and more. …

The Web Client for TFS 2010 (what was called Team System Web Access TSWA) is now installed as a core part of the Application Tier. It is no longer a separate install as it was in previous versions. This means it is easy to implement, it is just there by default. However, this can raise some problems if intend to expose …

Stepping along the path ploughed by Richard and Robert, I thought I’d try to order my thoughts on the BCS EGM through a blog post. Like Richard, I am (as I begin writing) uncertain as to my final leaning on this, although I have clear views on some of the issues. Democracy In Action One of the most important, in my …

I thought I’d post this because so many like me might benefit from my experiment. We have a number of Acer TravelMate 6593 laptops here at Black Marble. They’re great machines – plenty of grunt, a lovely screen and most of the toys you could need in a laptop that’s used for a mix of IT admin, dev and technical sales …

At TechED one of the many important announcements is the release to manufacture of Windows Server App Fabric I will be running some events on App Fabric later in the year so keep watching. get App Fabric from here b.

Following Richards lead, I have decided to post on my thoughts about the BCS AGM. While I don’t quite agree on some of Richards points. I think that the reasons behind the call EGM are valid. It certainly seems to me that the governing body has thrown a funded PR machine against the EGM and has not spent anytime …

I got the paperwork for the British Computer Society EGM this week. This EGA raises some interesting issues, the best overview of the issue I have found seems to be on the Computer Weekly site. So has supporters of the EGM motion argument, led by former BCS trustee Len Keighley, any merit? Yes, it does. Enough to vote …

Black Marble returns to Dublin for Epicenter 2010: the second annual Irish Software Show. This is a great conference on your doorstep, and this year we have … Robert Hogg speaking on SQL Modelling Services (8 June) Steve Spencer on Visual Studio 2010 (8 June) Iain Angus on Application Lifecycle Management (8 June) …