Just got home from a long day of Black Marble hosted presentations. This morning I was presenting on SQL 2008, seemed to go well. This afternoon it was a very busy MSDN session by Martin Parry and Daniel Moth from the Microsoft DPE team on VS2008 and .NET 3.5. Finally this evening there was a interesting community …

Craig Murphy has just posted a podcast we did at SQLBits last weekend. Enjoy............

The voting for DDD6 is now open - as I always say vote early vote often. I hope my submission of a proposal for a session on Scrum is of interest. I know I have had feedback on my previous sessions that people want to know more on this area. Also saw today on Colin Angus Mackey's blog that DDD7 DDD Scotland will be in …

Last night went to an excellent free meeting at the Yorkshire Extreme programming Club given by Clarke Ching entitled : Programmers may be from Mars, Customers may be from Venus ... but why does everyone think that Project Managers are from Uranus? From the title I was unsure of the content, other than it would be …

I have just got back from SQLBits after giving my session on Unit testing in SQL. As I said at the start of my session, at developer events I often feel a bit of an outsider when I say I am talking on testing as opposed to development; today it was doubly so when surround by so many DBAs. I have to say some of the …

Whilst sorting our eScrum installation I kept getting a variety of Javascript errors when selecting a project using the dialog on the top right of the main web form. I also was unable to create new product via the web site. It turned out to be two problems: Templates Some the projects I had registered to be used via …

As I posted before I have been updating our TFS server to 2008 Beta2, today it was the WSS from 2.0 to 3.0. Well I followed the process on Sudhir Hasbe's blog and it just worked, so now we have WSS3.0 running the the TFS application tier. The final step will be to move the SharePoint sites to our main MOSS 2007 farm, …

Today I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade our 'live' TFS installation to 2008 Beta2, now there is support from Microsoft. The only reason I have delayed this long has been we have been involved in the delivery of a big project and I did not want to take the TFS server down for any reason. Our TFS installation is …

Due to popular demand, well one person, I have uploaded my GUITester system I presented about at DDD3 to CodePlex. It can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/guitester. If you are interested in moving the project forward let me know.

If you are having to support a TFS install there have been some excellent posts on disaster recovery on Sudhir Hasbe's blog, he is a PM on the TFS team. Well worth a read.