Wow, the Alt.Net conference in London in August certainly filled up fast. On Friday I went into a meeting before registration opened, and by the time I came out the first wave was full. I now see that the second wave of registration is also full. Unfortunately I can’t make this one, but I am sure it will be a success. …

I have been blogging for a while now on using Tyepmock & Ivonna for various forms of testing, well you can bow buy both packages as a bundle and here is the blog/press viral marketing release….. Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET …

I was unable to attend the last Agile Yorkshire meeting, shame it sounds like it was a good one. The slides are up and give a really nice overview of the theory behind exploratory testing, worth a look at http://www.agileyorkshire.org/2009-event-announcements/may13th-exploratorytesting/ExploratoryTesting.ppt

Today I was setting up a new development VPC for SharePoint. When I tried to add a new user via the AD tools wizard I got the error "Windows cannot set the password for [new user], network path was not found" Forums suggest the issue is DNS resolution related, but for me it turned out to be the simple fact …

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 …