A contingent of the Black Marble staff will be heading to Las Vegas in less than two weeks to attend the Microsoft SharePoint 2009 Conference. if you are going please look us up, I will be presenting on a subject jet to be announced so keep tuned. b.

Over the weekend Brian Harry posted on this blog about a new ‘Basic’ edition of TFS. This is aimed squarely small team currently using Visual SourceSafe. It will provide version control with work item tracking and can be run on SQLExpress. The key difference for the ‘Standard ‘ edition is that it will not have …

I would like to thank everybody who came to our first BizSpark event, I understand that everybody enjoyed themselves and are signing up to either Biz or Website Spark. I would also like to thank Business Link Yorkshire for attending and offering solid business advice. We will be announcing follow-up BizSpark events …

We were delighted at how our first event of the season went – high turnout, lively crowd and good food all combined to bring Visual Studio 2010 and the Application Lifecycle to Yorkshire Devs. Feedback was positive, and Black Marble’s Richard Fennell and Iain Angus were a great double act for the day. More Visual …

Bletchley Park have announced that they have got some Lottery Grant funding, which is great news. Again I you urge you to visit if you are interested in the history of our trade.

Everybody knows I like a verification tool as I think they are a solid way to enable a solid basis for quality, the argument against is that they do not get every case and so the argument goes we should settle for 20% MK1 human eyeball standards. I am a firm believer in both and so I was made up when Microsoft released …

You can now get updates on Agile Yorkshire events via twitter @agileyorkshire

We encountered a problem recently with a two server farm. One server was configured as index and query server. Both servers were delivering pages to users. If a user executed a search on the server which did not run the search services, the Search page returned an error, and we saw the following in the application log …

Must be that time of year, I see we are looking at an exam for Scrum Masters I don’t see any point in my repeating myself, especially when Gojko has covered essence of the subject so well

We have been consolidating our Hyper-V system of late, moving various older systems onto a new SAN based cluster. This has meant we have just moved our virtual TFS2008 build machines. After the move I started seeing the following error on all the builds using that server, re-enabling the build machine had no effect. I …