At my session at DDDNorth I mentioned that some of the settings you needed to configure in SonarQube 5.1, such as DB connection strings for SonarRunner, would not need to be made once 5.2 was release. Well it was released today. Most important changes for we are

• Server handles all DB connections
• LDAP support for user …

Thanks to everyone who came to my session at DDDNorth on SonarQube, hope you found it useful. The links to resources for my session are

• SonarQube documentation
• Microsoft Product Team posts on Technical Debt
• ALM Rangers Guide on SonarQube (source)
• ALM Rangers Guide on SonarQube (explanatory post)
• SonarLint

And you can …

In case you had not noticed, our MD and Connected Systems MVP Robert Hogg posted about the new Patterns & Practices Architecture Track he is hosting on Day 1 of the Microsoft Future Decoded event  next month in London.

This track is an additional track to the now full Future Decoded. If you are interested in …

Whilst working with a vNext Release Management pipeline I started seeing the error

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Release.Common.Helpers.OperationFailedException:
New deployment is not allowed as an another deployment is in progress.
Retry the deployment after sometime.

Problem was I could not see any blocked or paused …

The agenda for our 8th annual Black Marble Architecture Forum is firming up. Just confirmed is our keynote from Martin Woodward the Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, discussing open source adoption within Microsoft

There are still spaces for this free event, so why not register?

The event is on the 15th of …

This article was first published on the Microsoft’s UK Developers site as Running nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build

With the advent of vNext build in TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Online running unit tests that are not MSTest based within your build process is far more straightforward than it used to …

Pleased to say my session on SonarQube has been accepted for DDDNorth. And it seems that registration has opened and closed today, there is a wait list up now

Good to see the DDD events still popular after 10 long years

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The title says it all, I have been using a Microsoft Band for a few months now and have found it a great tool for running and cycling as long as you are going out for less than about 5 hours. I tried to use for the first time Triathlon race at at the Leeds Triathlon over the weekend.

As it it not water proof it was not …