Update – just needed to correct myself … it is a Kringle-O-Tron not a Robot Santa! D’oh!

In case you missed it … we are providing cut out and keep Santa and Kringle-O-Tron with our online Xmas cards this year.  They make up wonderful little models, with just folding and cutting!  As we can testify to by the number …

BizTalk 2009 CTP is now out along side ESB 2.0 CTP and RFID(Mobile)

BizTalk 2009 supports visual studio 2008 , SQL Server 2008 AND TFS with some great new tooling for development and application lifecycle management.

BizTalk RFID Mobile enhances BizTalk Server RFID by offering device management and offline processing …

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Following the wonderfully successful Black Marble Brigade Xmas Card in 2007, we are back with a great set of …

At the last MVP Summit Steve Ballmer said “I’m going to ask you one week switch your default [search engine], one week. At the end of the week…I’ll want feedback, how was your week, what happened, what did you like, what didn’t you like … Can I make that deal with you? (Cheers and applause.) That’s the deal.”

Well the …

Updated 3 Dec 2008 – I got an email from Artem Smirnov the author of Ivonna pointing out a couple of things, so I have updated this post
Updated 3 May 2009 – I altered the code samples as the previous ones did not seem to work with Typemock Isolator 5.3.0 .

I have previously written a post on using Isolator with …

Black Marble hosted the first Architecture Forum in the North today and despite the treacherous weather conditions, there was a great and enthusiastic turnout.

The day opened with Matt Deacon, Chief Architectural Advisor from Microsoft espousing on Sustainable IT, followed up by Simon Thurman, a Microsoft Architecture …

I'm using the Mini9 quite a lot lately, at least in part to fiddle with Windows 7. I decided it would be nice to be able to access our Hyper-V servers so I went looking for the management tools...

It turns out that Windows 7 ships with the Hyper-V management snap-ins. No real surprise there as my understanding is that …

Applications to attend Software Craftsmanship 2009 have opened, this is a free conference that aims to discuss ‘the "hard skills" that programmers and teams require to deliver high quality working software’.

If you have not heard of Software Craftsmanship take a look at Peter McBreen’s book Software …

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 …