After I installed Windows 8 RTM I still had two devices missing drivers. I have made a little progress

• Base System Device - was the Ricoh PCIe SDXC/MMC Host controller I used this Win 8 beta driver
• Unknown driver – seems to be the Lenovo Power Management devices. However the  Win 8 Beta driver  fails to install. I had …

if you missed yesterdays DDD10, as I did, then don’t worry. You can come to DDD North in Bradford at the University Management Centre on the 13th of October. There is another great set of speakers, I was lucky enough to get my session on Unit Testing and Fakes in VS2012 accepted. Hope to see you there

Also my company …

The registration has opened for DDDNorth 2 (In Bradford) where I will be speaking on Unit testing in VS2012

Also my Raspberry PI has just arrived – after only 6 months of waiting, but I don’t think I can work it into my DDDNorth session

The Northern wing of the UK’s premier Developer Community event is coming to Yorkshire on the 13th October.  Here are some things you need to know class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/historic/DDDNlogo.png" …

We have just completed the upgraded of our TFS2012 server from RC to RTM. All went smoothly, just a few comments worth mentioning

• The install of TFS2012 (after the removal of the RC) required three reboots, 2 for C++ components and one for .NET 4.5. So  if seeing reboots don’t worry too much.
• When running the upgrade …

First I thought I could do an in-place upgrade of my Windows 8RC PC, turns out you can’t (not sure if it would have been wise anyway) so it was format disk time.

I had hoped for a seamless install of Windows 8, but it hung after detecting devices. It seems it was the ‘old problem’ down to Lenovo/Nvidia Optimus graphics …

If like me you listen to many podcasts, then swapping the PC your Phone7 syncs to collect the podcasta is a real pain. The problem being as far as I can see Zune has no podcast subscription export/import, so you are left with a lot of copy typing to re-enter them.

Whilst rebuilding my PC with Windows 8 today I have at …