A welcome return for our Technical Update in January 2007.
This event will provide a technical update covering Microsoft's latest shipping products, as well as what's forthcoming and the development environments that will be available to customise them.
Our aim is to provide a review of up and coming products, as well …
Read More- Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2005, a major new release of its developer tools environment, and the foundation of Microsoft platform development for the next few years. This marked the arrival of the lifecycle tools, Visual Studio Team System and the Team Foundation Server, to support end-to-end system …
Read More An essential guide for general and IT managers on IT security issues that affect the whole IT industry. We will cover:
- Security
- Current Security Technologies
- Security Awareness and User Education
- Social Engineering
- Security Best Practices
- Software Security
- ISA Server 2006
Date: 7 December, Time: 9am - 12pm, Location: …
Read MoreBusiness Intelligence (BI) is not a product but a term that covers a wide range of products that allow a manager to make better business decisions.
BI has changed over the years both in reach and formality - today a good BI system can present data on a wide variety of heterogeneous services in a robust and accessible …
Read More- Black Marble are proud to host the Northern leg of the 'Ed Gibson "On The Road"' Events tour which will take place mid-Septermber to mid-October 2006 at 5 venues around the country. The aim of the events are to raise awareness of the issues surrounding computer security, specifically Organised Crime and …
Read More A while ago I posted about my Dell 5150 overheating. Well all the things I tried have helped a bit, but not really sorted the problem so in desperation I called Dell support (when all else fails etc. etc.)
They suggested putting the latest bios on (A38), cleaning the heatsink with compressed air and making sure it was …
Read MoreWhen installing Windows (any version) on a Virtual PC get the Virtual PC extensions installed as soon as possible.
I have been installing a basic XP SP2 from an ISO image on a VPC and it has been hogging my P4HT processor, virtually melting my Dell 5150. After the basic installation I did a Windows update and this was …
Read MoreFirst a bit of history, in .NET 1.1 any exceptions that were not handled in a background thread that generated them were just lost, you had to remember to handle them within the failing thread or never see them again.
This 'feature' has been addressed in .NET 2.0 and now any unhandled exception in a background thread …
Read More- I have just watched the very interesting Ifeanyi Echeruo: Testing WPF - UI Fuzzing with InvokeStress. This gives a great discussion of the role of the tester within the development team, and no they don't 'just press buttons to see what happens'. They are there to drive quality and it is very much a development role. …
Read More A while ago I posted on getting CruiseControl.NET working with MSTest. This has been working OK for us, but as with all things you learn a lot from living with it. So here are some tips and comments about our experiences:
Watch your timeouts
Many problems we have had have been due to steps in the build process taking …
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