We got a good turn out of Black Marble staff at this years Age UK Abbey Dash 10K in Leeds. We were amongst over 8000 runners who turned out for a cool and foggy Yorkshire Sunday morning run. We had a handicap race amongst ourselves, using a wisdom of crowds poll to estimate everyone target time. This was won by Steve …

In my post experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD I said I thought the reason my Windows 7 Media Center was hanging at the "TV signal configuration” step was down to using mixed tuner cards. Well my second PCTV nanoStick T2.arrived yesterday so I was able to try the same process with a pair …

When you are trying to run a command line tool via the InvokeProcess activity in a TFS 2010 Team build you might see the somewhat confusing ‘Access denied’ error. There appears to be no more detail in the log. I have found that this is usually down to a type on the filename property of the activity. It should be set to …

Whilst I have been on holiday Black Marble have announced some new events and this time they are not just in the UK, we have a couple in our new Dublin office location. The programme up to new year is: 17 Nov 2011 (Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford) Am - [Delivering High Impact WebSites with …

[Update: Also so More experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD] I have used a Windows Media Center as my only means to watch TV for about 5 years; upgrading over the years from XP to Vista and onto Windows 7. ![Picture of Windows Media Center](http://res1.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/Windows …

When using VMPrep to setup a VM for use in a Lab Management system I got the error cross at the bottom of the dialog Not too much help, usually there is a link to the log file or a message. If you look in the log file in c:user[name]AppdataRoamingLMInstaller.txt you see that the path to the Patches folder is invalid. …

I will be speaking at a [Black Marble event on the 30th November on the new TFS vNext announcements for TFS on Azure](http://www.blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=TFS for the small team – hosted in the cloud). Though this event is target as hosted TFS, I will be doing demos of the new web based UI for agile project …

At one of our recent events I was asked if I had any experience using Nuget within a TFS 2010 build. At the time I had not, but I thought it worth a look. For those of you who don’t know Nuget is a package manager that provides a developer with a way to manage assembly references in a project for assemblies that are …

Well it looks like Microsoft has killed off the Zune Hardware, although only available in the US, many of us had Zune’s. I have to say the Zune devices are/were great. if Microsoft have decided not to make the hardware, it must be said it puzzles me why they don’t license the software to other vendors, a model I think …

My great friend Alan Smith has recently released a really great guide to AppFabric, Alan is well known for his BizTalk Bloggers guide and I expect that this volume will enjoy as much if not more success. The guide is well written and comprehensive, saying that my understanding is that Alan plans to keep updating it …