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 …

There is a new user group starting up in the North East. It is taking an interestingly route of having meetings with two one hour sessions, one targeted at developers and the other for IT pros. The user group is free and there will be food and giveaways, I like this idea, the danger with too many user groups is that …

REGISTER ONLINE Following the success of our Visual Studio 2010/ALM with TFS events in Yorkshire and London, we are now taking it to Microsoft in Edinburgh. MVP for Team Foundation Server Richard Fennell and Microsoft’s Giles Davies return with an exploration of developer tools and application lifecycle management. …

Prologue This post is about assigning an SSL certificate to an IIS 7.5-hosted website which is not located in the Personal Certificate store. The steps shown are not SharePoint-specific, however. Hopefully this post will save you the large amount of time I spent hunting down the information on how to do this. The usual …

Welcome to 2010 … and more great events from Black Marble! The 27th January kicks off with our Annual Tech Update – a complete roadmap of all things Microsoft. We will shine a light on the big releases of 2009, the highlights of Office and Visual Studio 2010, as well as the releases you might have missed. The afternoon …

Like the Queen, I have recorded a Christmas message this year. Now I have no prior knowledge of what her Majesty will speak about this year, but I will lay good odds it is not about using Typemock Isolator. On the Typemock site you will find a short video on how we at Black Marble make use of Isolator to tackle testing …

The Black Marble Brigade have finally foiled Professor iNfamy’s nefarious schemes … time to kick back and relax! We at Black Marble wish you all a very merry Christmas and happy New Year! This year, Black Marble are making a donation The Bletchley Park Trust and The National Museum of Computing for every card sent … …