Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting (10th Feb) is an open floor meeting - any subject, any format, 10 minute maximum.
If you fancy doing something in one of the 10 minute slots - whether it is a presentation, a demonstration, a discussion around a problem area - then visit …
Read More- Whilst preparing demo’s for [our design event next week](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Understanding the Microsoft Design and Digital Agency Proposition) I hit a problem with the out of browser experience in Silverlight 3. I had decided to add the out of browser settings to our 2009 Christmas Card …
Read More - After attending Eileen Brown’s session on [Social networking last night](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Using Digital Marketing and Social Media to Build and Maintain your Online Brand&Code=), I though I should make more of an effort. So I am giving Twitter Notify a try, so at least there is some …
Read More Yesterday was the annual Black Marble Tech Update event, where we try to cover every product in the Microsoft arsenal in half a day, telling local businesses what’s coming and what deserves attention.
Writing up the content of the presentations would be almost as exhausting as the research required for create them, but …
Read More- I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns out my session did not get voted for, maybe better luck for DDS, …
Read More - Last week I got into an interesting discussion via email with Nieve a developer from Lille, France.The chat was on the uptake of Agile and Alt.Net practices in places a bit away from the major development hotspots. We both thought it could make an interesting post so, here goes, starting with Nieve’s first post….. …
Read More We lost remarkably few days of productivity to the bad weather at Black Marble. That wasn’t because we were all intrepid, hardy types and all made it into the office. Far from it – some of us live in areas where they don’t grit very often and can’t make it to the main roads.
As you guessed from the title, the reason we …
Read MoreUpdated 2nd March 2010: Altered the sample arguments see this post for more details
Updated 27th Jan 2010: Gian Maria Ricci, another Team System MVP has done some more work on this problems and posted on how to create a custom activity to address the problem.
I have been looking at getting automated builds running on …
Read More- The voting has opened for DDS, time to make your voice heard as what sessions you would like to see
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