The next meeting is on the 10th of December at Victoria Hotel in central Leeds at 7pm as usual. The speaker is Gary Short who is speaking on Design Patterns. Come to this free event to find out more about this vital subject to developers in any language from an excellent speaker. As an added bonus we will all head off …

Typemock announced today a new product Isolator for Sharepoint – which allows unit testing of Sharepoint code without needing Sharepoint installed. Now this is something I have been using the full version of Isolator for of late, and there are more blog posts on the way from me, so watch this space. So if you are a …

On Saturday I was pleased to have been chosen to present on Microsoft “Oslo” at Developer Developer Developer 7. The event was a runaway success and there will be more. I would like to thank everybody who attended my talk and especially those who were kind enough to provide feedback ( good and bad ). The only downside …

I am back from a few long weeks away both at the PDC in Los Angles and TechED IT in Barcelona, it was been great fun out at the PDC finally seeing “Oslo” out in the wild but the week at TechED talking to lots of great people about the joy of BizTalk brought me firmly back to reality. Microsoft has started to put …

Another long day over the weekend at DDD7, but worth it. An excellent selection of sessions; I particularly liked Ben Hall’s on Pex and Jon Skeet’s on Linq. A big thank you to the organisers for putting on such a successful event. It was noticeably fuller than past events, as we know DDD7 filled up in about four hours. …

We are always pushing automation of our processes at Black Marble … and here’s one that gadget that would only require minor tweaking to make my life easier now I just need to replace that little animal with a developer … (my thanks to Engadget for inspiration)

The call for speakers at the DDS event on the 2nd of May 2009 is now open. So get your session proposals up and see if there is any interest. I am not sure what I will propose, maybe something about testing Sharepoint

On Wednesday, we ran another of our triple-event days; great range of products covered and a lot of positive feedback. We started with m’learned colleagues Rik and John demonstrating all you need to know about Microsoft CRM 4.0. A hearty lunch readied the room for MSDN’s Eric Nelson and Mike Taulty from Microsoft and …

With the slew of great Developer and Architecture Guides appearing I have decided that a central list of them all is in order. I am now marking my resource lists to help people find them in the slew of “interesting” comments in my blog. Enterprise Library is up to 4.1 get it HERE Windows 7 Developer Guide – A guide for …

To license an installation of Typemock Isolator you run the Configuration tools and type in the key, you don’t get the option to enter the key during the installation. When I tried to run this tool today I got the error Now at first I thought it might be that I was on a64bit OS and it was looking in a portion of the …