All my active personal projects are now stored on Github

You can find specific projects in the following locations (including legacy ones).

Azure DevOps Extensions

I have a number of extensiions for Azure DevOps, the most popular are detailed. They can be installed on Azure DevOps via the Azure DevOps Marketplace …

Updated 6 Feb 2016 - See the newer post about the new vNext build task I have written to do the same job

Virtually any automated build will require some customisation beyond a basic compile. So as part of my upcoming Techorama session on TFS 2015 vNext build I need a demo of using a custom script as part of the build …

All change again on Visual Studio SKU licensing, have a look at the blog post on new SKUs for the 2015 release and also the 2015 product site. Basically it is a simplification.

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I have been preparing for my Techorama session on TFS vNext build. One of the demo’s I am planning is to use the Node based cross platform build agent to build something on a Linux VM. Turns out this takes a few undocumented steps to get this going with the CTP of TFS 2015

The process I followed was:

• I installed a …

Black Marble are hosting, at our offices, a Microsoft event on the 18th March on ALM with Visual Studio & TFS 2013. This is a repeat of the sell out event we hosted in the autumn.

For details of the event and registration see the booking site

A couple of weeks ago I presented on DSC and Release Management as part of the Microsoft UK TechDays Online 2015 event. All the sessions from this three day event are now available on demand at TechDays Online 2015 on-demand sessions.

You do seem to have to register/login to see the content, so I can’t deep link to my …

Speaker registration for DDD South West has opened, problem is the event is the same weekend as the Maker Faire in Newcastle, don’t think I can do both.

Both are great options though, good to have choices

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Seem Windows 10 will be an option on the new Raspberry PI 2, that provides some more nice  IoT options.

It will be interesting to see which tools Microsoft look to target onto this board, I guess remote development from a PC as per their Galileo board. But there might be enough power for a bit more, we shall see