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 …

Recently we had a great day demonstrating the great innovations we have made with HoloLens for the Police to a room full of jaded but ultimately enthusiastic, technology journalists.

It was great to see their responses to the solutions we have put together, and heartening to read some of the things they had to say. …

I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a while as I have been deep in planning for community events and steeped in the joys of HoloLens.

The results, two more DDD community events on the way (Reading and the North), and Black Marble has been made one of Microsoft’s HoloLens Agency Readiness Partners.  So few …

I have just released a new version of my VSTS Manifest Version Extension (1.5.22). This adds two new tasks to the set of versioning tasks in the extension. The complete set now is

• VersionAssemblies - sets the version in the assemblyinfo.cs or .vb (used pre build)
• VersionDotNetCoreAssemblies - sets the version in the …

Background

If you are creating VSTS build extensions you will need to get the build or release’s PAT token if you wish to call the VSTS REST API.

This is done using a call like this (Node)

1import tl = require('vsts-task-lib/task'); 
2
3var auth = tl.getEndpointAuthorization('SYSTEMVSSCONNECTION', false …

Rik Hepworth and myself have been doing our ‘Living the Dream – Real world DevOps with VSTS and ARM’ at a good few events over the past few months.

We now, at last, have a recording of a version of it up on Black Marble YouTube Channel’s DevOps Playlist

Enjoy….

There are still spaces available at the Black Marble hosted venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp on the 17th of June

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If you are interested register …

Do you find your TFS server gets forgotten?

• It is not owned by the IT department and the Development team don’t have the time to support it fully, it never gets patched or upgrades?
• Or maybe you are adopting a cloud first strategy for all you systems?

Well maybe it is time to consider moving your on-premises TFS …