Black Marble's annual Tech Update for IT managers and Developer took place today. In the developer segment we reprised Chris A's & Don Box's Lap around Longhorn for the local audience. It was very well received, see you at next years update Robert

Richard and I attended the event Developing Software for the future Microsoft Platform, where we saw Chris Anderson & Don Box's Lap Around Longhorn, it was very entertaining. A series of very interesting demonstrations of WinFS showed how powerful a file system could be. Bill Gates gave the closing session, which …

Well this is the first posting to our new BM-Bloggers site. What is BM-Bloggers, it is a blog shared by the all the developers of Black Marble to comment on the development world as they see it. Hope you find it if interest. Richard

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The following books are ones that I have found useful. GitHub & Azure DevOps (Inc. TFS) Books on specific tools and platforms do not age well, so I have not included many here. However, the following have been useful for understanding the tools and how to use them at various points in time. ALM Rangers Some of the …