Whilst setting up our new TFS 2012 instance I had a problem getting the build box to connect to the TFS server. When I started the build service (on a dedicated VM configured as a controller and single agent, connected to a TPC on the server on another VM). All appears OK, the controller and agents said they were …

I am really happy to say that I have had my Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM Re-awarded, it is a privilege to get to work with such a great group of people as a have met via the MVP programme.

My slides and those of other presenters at last weeks Microsoft cloud day have been published

As Brian Harry announced on his blog there are new 2012 editions of the two main TFS books on the way. I have added links to them from my reading list page but as yet you can only pre-order them as the release dates are not available.

Update 4/Aug/2012: See post on my implementation of a 2012 version of this activity If you are using Typemock Isolator in your unit testing then you be wanting to include then in your automated build process. Unlike other mocking frameworks you have to do a bit of work to achieve this with Isolator, this is because to …

The next Leeds Sharp user group meeting on the 28th of June is a Kata session using Conway’s game of life. For more details see their site. Not sure if I can make it yet have to keep an eye on my ever filling diary

If you’ve seen my recent blog post on making Android work in Hyper-V you will have seen my problems around DNS resolution when in the office. That turned out to be down to the DHCP options being handed back by our Server 2008 R2 box. Or rather, it was what wasn’t being handed back to the client that was the problem. …

Session submission has opened for the next DDDNorth on the 13th October at Bradford University. Why not submit a session?

More and more of our projects include a stipulation from the client that any web sites must work on the tablet devices of senior management. Up until recently that was exclusively iPads, but we are now seeing more Android devices out there. I wanted to find a straightforward way for us to test on such devices, …

I have been finding the ‘hit the windows key and type’ means to launch desktop applications in Windows 8 quite nice. It means I get used to the same behaviour in Windows or Ubuntu to launch things, no need to remember menu locations just type a name, all very slickrun . However, I hit a problem today, I hit the windows …