As time passes I have found there is a need for more cross platform VSTS extensions as there is more uptake of VSTS beyond it’s historic Microsoft platform based roots.

Historically most of my extensions have been Powershell based. Now this is not a fundamental problem for cross platform usage. this is due to the …

Whilst doing some NPM build work for VSTS Extensions I kept getting intermittent EPERM errors about renaming Windows files during NPM install (as discussed on GitHub)l. When you get this it completely blocks any development.

As the Github issue discusses there are many possible reasons for this issue, and many proposed …

I have working on getting a Windows 10 Universal application analysed with SonarQube 6.x as part of a VSTS build. The problem has been that when the VSTS task to complete the SonarQube analysis ran I kept getting an error in the form

1WARNING: Duplicate project GUID: "8ace107e-8e3c-4a1b-9920-e76eb1db5e53". …

Are you enthused by the all news at Build 2017?

Do you want to find out more about VSTS, DevOps and Continuous Delivery?

Well why not take the chance to join us on June 17th at Black Marble, or one of the over 25 other venues around the world for the first Global DevOps Bootcamp?

Several years ago, for the launch of Windows Phone 7, we built a game based on work we did on helping teaching AI with .NET.

o7 was born.  A great game, and now it is back in glorious UWP for Windows 10.

Try it out and let us know what you think.

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Once again I am so very proud to announce I have been selected to continue as a Regional Director for Microsoft for another two years.

The Regional Directors are a truly extraordinary set of individuals and I am humbled every time I’m in their company.  Not only for their extraordinary depth of knowledge and level of …

After last year’s successful reboot, DDD is back in Reading for its twelfth outing, on Saturday, 10th of June.

Again DDD is free for all to attend, thanks to some great sponsors – and if you would like to be considered, please email ddd@blackmarble.com.

Our aim is to make DDD accessible to all, making it free is key to …