A few weeks back, I wrote about how we aren't asking for sponsors for our online Developer Day, as there aren't any significant costs to cover. Instead, we were directing people towards making a donation to The National Museum of Computing, an organisation which does great things for our industry, but has been finding …

Introduction The use of variables is important in Azure DevOps pipelines, especially when using YML templates. They allow a single pipeline to be used for multiple branches/configurations etc. The most common form of variables you see is are the predefined built in variables e.g. $(Build.BuildNumber) and your own …

Collaboration has been and will continue to be one of the important business advantages that the Cloud can deliver to an organisation. Collaboration can be thought of as not just connecting people to one another and improving their day to day working practices, but also enabling and encouraging collaboration between …

This is another one of those posts so I can remember where some useful information is.... If you are migrating your Azure DevOps Classic Builds and Release to Multi-Stage YAML then an import step is to export all the exiting build, task groups and release as YAML files. You can do this by hand within the Pipeline UI, …

With DevOps best practices and Microsoft’s DevOps tooling, Black Marble can deliver agile planning, source code control, package management, build, testing and release automation to continuously integrate, test, deliver and monitor your application. It is crucial to not only have the right people in place for your …

Over the last few years, I've spent a great deal of time working with police forces in the UK, and regularly have conversations with them about AI, and the potential impact on policing. More and more police forces are looking at AI in order to take advantage of the services available to drive insights from existing …

There have been some major paradigm shifts in the history of computing with some of the most notable being marked, not only by changes in technology, but by changes in staffing that technology. When the computing standard for mainframe shifted to client/server, the staff model moved from computer operator to system …

Due to the unusual circumstances of 2020, the 15th Developer!Developer!Developer! Day will take place virtually. That means no catering or venue costs to meet, costs that are usually met via sponsorship, as we keep the cost of entry free. And I'll be covering any incidental costs incurred. However, we are still looking …

DDD Logo We had planned to run a DDD in October, but due to illness, this didn't happen (we are all well now, phew!). With Christmas so close, hadn't expected to have time to run a DDD, but with the world being as it is, we wanted to do something to bring some cheer to the Dev and IT community. Therefore we are running …

I have been wanting to return to this blog for some time, but a combination of things kept me busy. Not least of which, was a period of illness for me at the beginning of Spring, and for family at the start of September. All good now, and glad to be OK! Plus, I've been keeping myself busy producing articles over on …