Good news, there will be an Alt.Net UK Conference in London over the first weekend of August. Bit of a different format this time: Alt.Net Beers _A social opportunity to discuss Alt.Net over a few beers. __Friday, July 31, 2009 from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM _82 Dean Street, London, W1D 3HA, United Kingdom Open Space …

Black Marble was down at AIC yesterday, not only were we proud to sponsor such an event but we also ran some sessions and breakouts. Thanks to everybody who attended sessions I was involved in. For those of you who attended the discussion on Architecting Quality, I thought it was a good session with a set of fairly …

I was at the Architect Insight Conference yesterday, so the big question is do I better know the role of the architect in the development process – I have to say no. Don’t get me wrong the event was interesting, I especially enjoyed the interactive group discussion sessions, one of which I chaired if that is the right …

Update 15 May – Date changed due to unexpected overseas trip I will be doing a session on Testing SharePoint using Typemock Isolator on the 3rd June 17th June in Newcastle. Check the Vbug site for more details.

You can run Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7, but Windows 7 does include a new version of Virtual PC as part of the operating system, which is good. The problem I have, and as will many others, is though my 64Bit Acer 8210’s Intel process has hardware virtualization support, Acer for some bizarre reason chose to disable it …

The title says it all. I’m currently building a virtual lab to test DirectAccess and every time I run newsid on windows server 2008 R2 the system bluescreens irrevocably on reboot. I’ve now switched to using sysprep to change the SID. Here’s hoping the sysinternals guys update what is undoubtedly one of the most useful …

Black Marble are out in force today for the 4th Annual Microsoft Architect Insight Conference in London. Robert and Richard are presenting 3 sessions between them, plus a bus load of our staff are there to support them! Word is the event is full to bursting … should be good. When available, I’ll post some links to …

Don’t forget the next Agile Yorkshire meeting on the 13th of May about Exploratory testing. Usual time, usual place, usual free pint for everyone thanks to our sponsors.

The upgrade took about 2 hours following the ‘enable in-place upgrade’ notes. There was a lot of no progress bar movement & percentages not changing whilst the disk light flashed, but we got there in the end. Thus far all seems OK. so the summary a bit slow but smooth

no this is not some strange kind of maths statement, a bit late (oops) but it is just that the first social media sites that exited me is now the ripe old age of 5. if you feel the need to celebrate as well you can hear Don Box and Chris Anderson serenade (in a oh so disturbing way) the Channel 9 Guy here if developers …