Today Typemock released their Isolator 6.0 version with full support for VS2010. Check out the full announcement at their site, there some nice new features there.

I have been on a customer site today, locked in a machine room, and so have managed to miss the opening and closing of registration for DDD8. So, as neither of my session’s got enough votes (too test based I guess for the developer mainstream) to be on the schedule I guess I will not be attending. Maybe I will have …

The next generation of visual studio tips of the day are here courtesy of Zain Naboulsi, a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft who is stepping into some very big shoes (metaphorically,eep) of Sara Ford. read Zain’s posts here, but wait there's more he is also providing videos as well :) b.

I have at last got round to setting up a full installation VS 2010 Test and Lab Manager using the excellent notes from the Lab Management Team. Whist installing the build server portion I got a strange set of errors. TF255425: An error occurred while installing the following Windows service: TFSBuildServiceHost.exe. …

Stuart Preston has just started an new UK ALM User Group, to quotes its blurb… The UK ALM User Group is for practitioners of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in the UK to get together and discuss and share ideas tools and techniques, as well as to socialise somewhere …

You can now vote for the proposed sessions at the upcoming DDD8 conference, and what a good selection there is to choose from this time.

There seams to be loads of coverage at present over mobile platforms. Maybe I am just noticing it due to coverage of the CES show and the launch of the Nexus One, but the more mainstream media does seems to be taking a good deal of interest in the future of smartphones (or superphone as Google are calling their new …

Anybody who follows me on twitter will know that @rikhepworth is by no means a prolific tweeter. However, I do follow a number of people around the planet, and in addition to the ubiquitous Tweetie2 on my iPhone, I have found two clients to be useful and reliable. The first is Tweetz, from Blue Onion Software. This is …

I’ve been extremely busy over the past week creating demo systems and updating our own internal Black Marble systems. Part of that long list of tasks was to get around to testing the CRM 4 Outlook client with Outlook 2010. For those who don’t know, you need the Update Rollup7 client if you want to use Outlook 2010 (and …

The AGM is on the 14th Jan at the Victoria Hotel, 28 Great George St, Leeds. See here for directions. Come along and let us know the direction you would like the user group to follow.