I am over at Microsoft in Redmond attending a Compiler Dev lab.
Compiler developers for all sorts of interesting compilers are here producing Cobol, RPG, Eifel, Delphi and others.

The event is run under NDA, so there is unfortunately a large number of ommisions.

John Gough provided an overview of producing your first …

On the 26th of January we ran our ever popular Technical Update Seminar. This seminar was supported by Microsoft as part of their Partner Program. The areas discussed were Microsoft products that were released in 2004 and what is going to be seen in the coming year and more distant future.

The associated white paper …

Black Marble is developing a trial framework for the next generation of Pervasive Mobile games, with the University of Bradford and Microsoft UK. We will be blogging more about this in the new year.

Robert

Richard presented a guide for IT managers and developers on current development methodologies including eXtreem programming, MSF and Scrum and pressed the point of why they are necessary even in a relatively small project.

I presented a guide for IT managers who don't necessarily have a development background on …

Another successful event, though many of our attendees thought EPM was a step to take in the future, rather than now. The interest in Sharepoint was resounding.

Linda

The 40th Anniversary James Bond Exhibition is now in Arizona, with new terminals and updated software.

Linda

What can I add?  Our response scores for the .NET Curriculum Workshop came in.  An excellent response.

Robert

Thought I'd let someone else comment ...

Today, Microsoft recognizes Black Marble as a new Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for demonstrating its expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology. - Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at …

Another successful day, including the Visual Studion 2005 demo, which I think sealed the views on .NET.

Robert