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 …

I had an enjoyable day at Developer Day Scotland in Glasgow yesterday; a big thank you to the organisers and speakers. I did a short grok talk on ‘Testing Sharepoint using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna’, a few people asked me for more details. Well the session was based on a post I did a while ago. I have updated that …

The MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller class; which you can add to as you go along. Recently whilst …

I will be speaking on developer testing of SharePoint projects using Typemock at both the Birmingham and Manchester NXtGen user groups in August. For more details check the NxtGen site.

The ever lovely people at the Microsoft CSD have launched a site to promote learning WCF. The site has a couple of overview videos to help you understand why WCF takes producing quality connected services easier and faster. The site also collects a great bunch of material to get you started or improve your existing WCF …

I will be speaking at the AIC on the 8th of May on Modelling with Oslo for Architects. There are some truly great speakers at the event however I have just head that it is already full. I hope to see some of you there b.

Oliver Sturm and Gary Short have recently started their new podcast, called “Sod This”. Only the surface it is Oliver and Gary randomly talking, but underneath is some in depth solid information and insights in interviews from some interesting people. They promise to deliver the podcasts on a fixed timetable of …