I’ve posted before about helping out at the IT Camps run by the Microsoft DX team. I’m a fervent supporter of them – they are hands-on days of technical content run by great people who know their stuff and, importantly, they are run around the country.
Next week will see me in Manchester with Ed Baker for the latest …
Read MoreWe’re only half way through January and this year is already busy. I am really excited to be speaking at SQLBits this year!
SQLBits is a conference that various members of the Black Marble team attend regularly and rave about. It’s the event if you want to gain knowledge and insight into all aspects of databases and …
Read MoreBlock out your diary from February 3rd until February 5th. The great guys at Microsoft DX are running another TechDays Online event and it’s absolutely worth your time. I had the absolute pleasure to be involved last year and will again this year, both in front of and behind the camera.
For those who don’t know about …
Read MoreIn preparation for my Techdays session next month, I have been sorting demos using the various Release Management clients.
When I tried to create a release from within Visual Studio using the ‘Release Management tools for Visual Studio I found I could not add my Azure subscriptions. I saw the error ‘An unexpected error …
Read MoreIf the reason you have not been using VSO was concern over where it is hosted, then last week Microsoft made an announcement that could ease some of your worries, or at least your legal departments. VSO now has ISO 27001 Certification and European Model Clauses; for more details see Brian Harry’s blog.
This added to …
Read MoreOne of my blog posts has been re-posted on the Microsoft UK Developers blog Resolving the DCS two-step - Release Management vNext deployment
This post covers part of what I will be talking about at Microsoft Techdays on the 5th of February .
You can register here for this free online event
Read MoreI have been running Windows 10 on my pro 3 since the preview was first available. Truth being told there have been at least two occasions where taking it off seemed to be the best option but in both cases updates fixed the problem.
Being a developer I don’t always think before upgrading to new technology but in general …
Read More- Several times over the last few months I have encountered people who have misquoted/used Moore's law to justify a solution for a problem they are avoiding or more often are failing to comprehend to any real level. At a base level it is used as a reason not to do anything at worst used to justify the reasons not change …
Read More - Years ago I had the privilege of doing some SDR’s with the team developing a toolset code name “Oslo” using a new language named ‘M’. The concept was to bring modelling of data and visualisation of data to all. Sadly the retirement of Oslo the day before a presentation I was to give was a sad day and the passing of the …
Read More On the 5th of February I will be presenting at Microsoft’s online Techdays event. My session is entitled ‘How are you going to deploy that? A look at configuration as code’
“It does not matter what platform you are developing for, you are going to have to deploy your product in the end. Too often in the past the …
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