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 …

Rik and myself had a great time fun last night chatting all things ALM and DevOps with Greg Duncan on RadioTFS show 136. I was amazed it was a year since I was last on.

The Podcast is now up at http://radiotfs.com/Show/136 , why not have a listen

My Generate Release Notes VSTS extension has been my most popular by a long way. I have enhanced it, with the help of others via pull requests, but there have been two repeating common questions that have not been resolved

1. Is it cross platform?
2. Why does it show different work items and commit associations to the VSTS …

I have been working on a new Node.JS based VSTS Build Extension, so loads of Node learning going on as it is a language I have not done much with in the past. I expect to get caught out in places, but I have just wasted a good few hours on this one!

I am working in VS Code using Typescript to generate my Node based …

It has just been announced by Microsoft that it’s Open Source service CodePlex is shutting down before the end of the year. The reality is that the Microsoft focused Open Source community, and Microsoft itself, have moved to GitHub a good while ago.

I think I, like most developers, have moved any active Open Source …

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I m really pleased to say that we at Black Marble are hosting a Yorkshire venue for the upcoming Global DevOps Bootcamp, to quote …

I am speaking “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” a Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event at Microsoft’s offices in Dublin on the 30th of this month.

A bit of a departure for me I will be speaking on Xamarin, makes a change

To register see the event site