• 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 …

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The Kodu team have an introductory video on teaching children to program with Kodu see it here

The Consolarium have released a set of videos as an introduction to Kodu , see them here. They are a Centre for Games and Learning, established by Learning and Teaching Scotland to explore the world of computer games and help …

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

The VBug Autumn Conference is on the Wed 27th & Thurs 28th October  at Holywell Park, Loughborough. The published agenda this far is

**Day One (Wed 27th Oct):**Top of the Pops with Sharepoint 2010 – Dave McMahon
Cache Out with Windows Server AppFabric – Phil Pursglove
Mapping the Cloud – How far can we stretch it? …