You have all these books to put on a shelf and as you put one on at one end another one falls off at the other. You just can't get them all on at the same time. What do I mean by this? Sharepoint has many features and with these come limitations due to the way features have been implemented. I am repeatedly finding …

Thanks to Colin Mackay for organising the Scottish Developers event in Glasgow last night; as promised I have uploaded the slide on TFS that I presented. I am already looking forward to seeing everyone again at Developer Day Scotland which is also being held in Glasgow at the Caledonian University.

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The next meeting of the extreme programming club is going to be held on the Thursday the 14th of February 2008 at the Victoria Hotel, at 7.00pm, Leeds. Get Directions » Next meeting is happening on Thursday 14th of February There are going to have two shorter, or rather more agile talks: "CRAP hits the fan - …

I felt it was time for a new banner image, my triathlon photo had been up a while. So I have used one of the new cartoons our designer Lauren has done for all the staff at Black Marble. Commemorative limited edition collectors plate will soon be available.

At the Alt.NET UK conference there was a good deal of discussion about tactics to test declarative languages such as XAML in WPF applications. Well it seems we have another one coming out of the Oslo project - 'D'. Looks like there is no escape, testing of declarative languages is going to be a ripe area to develop …

Whilst at the Alt.net conference it was pointed out that I have a different view of the role of a tester in a software development team to many other people. It seems a tester, to many people, is viewed as a person who follows manual test scripts and/or monitors automated systems, they are really part of the QA process …

I am sitting on the train heading north. After deciding trying to stream the England/Wales match from iPlayer on the train WiFi was probably not a good idea, especially after just reading the score, I though I should write about the Alt.Net UK Conference; a very interesting experience. It is great to meet so many …

It seems there are still some places left for SQLBits II in Birmingham on the 1st of March. If you want to go I suggest you register fast as these community events do fill up fast.

I enjoyed presenting on TFS at the inaugural meeting of the Peterborough VBug group last night. Thanks to Jyoti Majithia (VBug regional administrator) and Andy Westgarth (VBug chairman) for organising it. Hopefully this will be the start of another thriving user group community. If anyone wants a copy of the slide …