Mid May is a busy time for me presenting-wise:

• On the 12th/13th I am presenting at Techorama in Belgium
• And on the 14th I will be presenting at a Microsoft/GreyMatter  event at Microsoft’s Reading office.

And after that there are also the Black Marble Re:Build and Re:Ignite events. I am sure I will be involved at …

All my active personal projects are now stored on Github

You can find specific projects in the following locations (including legacy ones).

Azure DevOps Extensions

I have a number of extensiions for Azure DevOps, the most popular are detailed. They can be installed on Azure DevOps via the Azure DevOps Marketplace …

Updated 6 Feb 2016 - See the newer post about the new vNext build task I have written to do the same job

Virtually any automated build will require some customisation beyond a basic compile. So as part of my upcoming Techorama session on TFS 2015 vNext build I need a demo of using a custom script as part of the build …

All change again on Visual Studio SKU licensing, have a look at the blog post on new SKUs for the 2015 release and also the 2015 product site. Basically it is a simplification.

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I have been preparing for my Techorama session on TFS vNext build. One of the demo’s I am planning is to use the Node based cross platform build agent to build something on a Linux VM. Turns out this takes a few undocumented steps to get this going with the CTP of TFS 2015

The process I followed was:

• I installed a …

Black Marble are hosting, at our offices, a Microsoft event on the 18th March on ALM with Visual Studio & TFS 2013. This is a repeat of the sell out event we hosted in the autumn.

For details of the event and registration see the booking site

Today I was lucky enough to present one of Rob Miles legendary “Rather Useful Seminars”

For my talk on “Being Disruptive for Fun and Profit” I was awarded an award, hand carved by Rob from a much bigger award.

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A couple of weeks ago I presented on DSC and Release Management as part of the Microsoft UK TechDays Online 2015 event. All the sessions from this three day event are now available on demand at TechDays Online 2015 on-demand sessions.

You do seem to have to register/login to see the content, so I can’t deep link to my …