I am a bit busy with upcoming presentations, all of which are free to attend Monday 21st May - Black Marble Webinar ‘How to Kick start your ALM Process ‘ Tuesday 22nd May – Typemock Webinar ‘Using Typemock Isolator to speed up the development of SharePoint Web Parts’ Saturday 26th May – DDD South West (Bristol) ‘Unit …

Are you interested in Windows 8 Development? Well if you are Black Marble are running a free event on Windows 8 on the 30th of May in Leeds. Also Jon Fowler, one of our development leads has just started a series of blog posts on converting Prims to .NET for Windows 8 metro style apps. This is all tied to his port of …

I see after a few days of issues the DDD10 site is back up and ready for submission. I have submitted a session, why don’t you – it will be fun! 08/05 – Call for speakers opens 02/07 – Call for speakers closes 03/07 – Voting opens 24/07 – Voting closes 27/07 – Schedule opens 30/07 – Registration opens 01/09 – DDD10

I am presenting a webinar on Typemock Isolator and Sharepoint on the 22nd of May. For more details and to register see the Typemock site

Whilst using DBAN to clean down some very old PCs for disposal to new homes at good causes I hit a stupid gotcha. I booted off the DBAN CDRom but could not continue beyond the first screen as it did not detect I had pressed the return key. Turns out the PCs were so old that, though their BIOS allowed USB keyboards (and …

I use a number of site collections on the Azure hosted Team Foundations Service (http://tfspreview.com); I have just solved a problem that I could not login to one of them via Visual Studio (2010, Dev11 or also TEE 11, I tried then all), but I could login to my other collections. Also I could access the collection if I …

We had an interesting issue of late building a Surface2 application solution within a TFS 2010 build system. The solution built fine in VS2010 on both my development PC and also using VS2010 on my TFS build box (both Windows 7 64bit PC), so I know I had all the right SDKs in place. However if I built it via TFS 2010 …

I recently posted on how you could use the new fakes tools in VS11 to fake out SharePoint for testing purposes. I received comments on how I could make my Shim logic easier to read so though I would revisit the post. This led me down a bit of a complex trail, and to Pete Provost for pointing the way out! When I did the …

After hearing my TEE video on Channel9 mentioned on Radio TFS I thought I should watch it through, I had only found time to do a quick look previously. This is all part of my on-going self review process, a form of self torture. It seems the issues I mentioned last time are still there, I still have too many err’s. The …

I have swapped to the new version of Microsoft Skydrive, replacing my old Mesh setup. It is a nice slick experience, allowing easy viewing of files on Skydrive from Windows and WP7. However, I do have couple of issues I used Mesh to sync photos from my Window 7 Media Center up to cloud storage as a backup, don’t want …