The new Yorkshire Extreme Programing Club seems to be getting off to a good start. The first meeting was well attended and there is activity on the message board. Take a look at http://www.extremeprogrammingclub.com/

I recently had one of our Windows 2003 server lose it's disk mirrors and locked up. When it was restarted it has two (virtually idenitical) drives C: and E:. It booted off the primary mirror disk (C:) and all seemed OK except SQL. I also tried booting off the secondary mirror (E:) but this would not boot (this drive it …

If installing the Cassini Personal Server on a PC you will often get the "Cassini managed web server failed to start listening to port 80. Possible conflict with another web server on the same port." error. You of course think this is a firewall, other web server or anti virus port blocker problems IT IS NOT! …

We're slowly migrating services onto our new servers here at Black Marble. This morning we had one of those moments where significant amounts of wall kicking and teeth gnashing ensue. Basically, we forgot that if you enable 32-bit .net support on IIS 6 it disables 64-bit support - you can't run 32 bit and 64 bit apps …

Today I moved this blog server from an old server to our nice shinny new ones. This meant splitting it so the DB to the dedicated SQL server and the front end to the new web server box. This cause a few problems. The actual move was fine, just back and restore the DB and copy over the ASP.NET web contents. I then …

Yesterday Rob Miles of Hull University gave his very interesting presentation on XNA and the Future of Game Development - Rob Miles as the community part of our day of events in Leeds. All the samples and demo's Rob used can be found on his Blog, the XNA specific area is http://www.robmiles.com/xna. This is also a …

Time for a bit of a follow up on my server name issues with TFS. As expected there is correct way to alter the names of the various TFS servers, it involves editing the contents of one of the TFS database tables, not any config file. The best documentation I have found is that for setting up the new ISAPI filter …

I got the West Yorkshire British Computer Society branch news letter today and I saw there is an extreme programming club being set up locally, the first meeting is in Leeds on Thur 8th Feb at Victoria Hotel, Great George St at 7pm. You can find the blog for the group at http://extremeprogrammingclub.blogspot.com/ I …

My plan for editing the local copy of the RegProxyFileCache.xml to change the name of the TFS server is OK until you restart the system. I need to look further into this......

Black Marble are pleased to be hosting this evening event on 31 January. XNA represents a major milestone in the field of game development,bringing game creators a unified platform and the safety of managedcode. It also greatly reduces the difficulties faced when starting outin game development, closing the gap between …