Wednesday this week is the next Agile Yorkshire meeting, there are 2 presentations and a discussion planned:

• Agile War Stories: A Project Managers Perspective. Ian Carroll
• User Story Estimation: Alan Williams
• An open discussion about Lean and Kanban in software development.

As usual the meeting is  at The Victoria …

This week I tried to add a new project collection to our TFS 2010 Beta1 test system. All seemed to be going OK, the settings verified without issue but I got the error TF252005 when it tried to create the associated SharePoint site (on the WSS 3.0 instance on the TFS application tier).

Now unlike TFS 2008 this was not …

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/> The second day of Black Marble events is an exploration of the forthcoming Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. …

Microsoft has released its Security Essentials package of free Virus,Spyware and Malware tools.

Get it here

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The chaps at M$ have released a new version of OOMPH, imagintivly titled OOMPH2.

OOMPH is designed to make micro formats more accessible to dev’s and designers, but is is just a great tool to have installed in IE, try it and see.

get it here

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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.

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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.

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