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.

A Beta version of Stylecop for Visual Studio 2010 is now available here, the only change is the integration with the Visual Studio 2010 shell. obviously not for “Real Programmers” but for us mortals it is a great new year gift. b.

Michael Stal has written an excellent post on why Real Software Engineers don’t eat Quiche ( I added the eating Quiche, but you get the drift of the article ) he did miss out a few important facts on Real Software Engineers, i) They always have a new type of hammer that they are looking to try out after hearing about …

As hopefully many of you know I am a huge advocate of teaching children to program, not to turn them over to the geek side but to teach them the life skills of problem solving and analysis. On a personal side I have been championing My First Programming Language a tool to get children a step up to programming in Basic …

most people know I am a bit of a sucker for a new mouse or keyboard, the new Arc keyboard while not being ergo is still quite cute http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=120&active_tab=overview I am hoping nobody will notice if a new/second keyboard is added to my desk with the …