The results of the DDD Dublin vote is in, and I am sorry to say I did not make it through the selection process. I must come up with at least some more interesting titles and abstracts (of course I can leave the sessions as dull as ever as you have voted for them by then, just like politicians and general elections …

DDD9 will be on the 29th Jan 2011 at TVP, for more details and to submit sessions see http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd9/

21 Sep – [From Express to Ultimate: Improving Productivity with Visual Studio 2010](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=From Express to Ultimate: Improving Productivity with Visual Studio 2010 - 21 Sept) (Black Marble Bradford) 29 Sep – Microsoft ALM day (Microsoft Reading) [Cancelled] 5 Oct – Microsoft ALM …

21 Sep – [From Express to Ultimate: Improving Productivity with Visual Studio 2010](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=From Express to Ultimate: Improving Productivity with Visual Studio 2010 - 21 Sept) (Black Marble Bradford) 29 Sep – Microsoft ALM day (Microsoft Reading) [Cancelled] 5 Oct – Microsoft ALM …

The vote has opened for DDD Ireland, get in there an vote for the sessions you would like to see, there is a nice selection. May I draw your attention to the two I have submitted How can I add my own custom step to a TFS 2010 build, or do I even need to try? (Oooh a new one!) Developing Testable Web Parts for …

I think my biggest issue with TFS2010 is the problem that a build controller is tied to a single Team Project Collection (TPC). For a company like mine where we run a TPC for each client this means we have had to start to generate a good number of virtualised build controller/agents. It is especially irritating as I …

On the 20th October I will be speaking at an afternoon event hosted by The Developer Group at EMC offices in London. My subject will be using Typemock Isolator to address testing problems in both well designed code (nice IoC patterns etc) and in nasty legacy code where you have to use all the trick Isolator allows. …

I have been using the Google Maps JavaScript API today. I lost too much time over a really stupid error. I was trying to set the zoom level on a map using the call map.setZoom(); I had set my initial zoom level to 5 (the scale is 1-17 I think) in the map load, when I called setZoom to 11 all was fine, but if I set it …

I have found a problem with repeated calls to indexed SharePoint Lists with Typemock Isolator 6.0.3. This what I am trying to do… The Problem I am using Typemock Isolator to allow me to develop a SharePoint Webpart outside of the SharePoint environment (there is a video about this on the Typemock site). My SharePoint …

I have a couple of new video’s on on the Typepmock Experts site, why not take a look, the titles are Using Typemock Isolator to enable rapid development Using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna for unit testing the UI