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Now the Black Marble Brigade have saved computing in the 1940s … can they save it in the 1980s??

Part IV of the Black …

VJ has released a free book with hints and tips for Windows 7, it is full of useful information and a must read for any windows 7 geek user.

Microsoft Press have made First Look: Microsoft Office 2010, by Katherine Murray free for a LIMITED time get it Here 

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Over the weekend the family where in Edinburgh we stumbled into an extraordinary Kurdish and Iranian restaurant called Hanams it just off the royal mile near the castle.

if you are near, just go in and try it, my recommendation is the Kulicha

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I am a bit behind the curve here but if you have not noticed DDD8 is planed for January in Reading and DDD Scotland in Glasgow for May.

Both conferences have open calls for speakers, so get your sessions in quick.

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The Black Marble Brigade are at Bletchley Park in the 1940s … can they save Colossus from Professor iNfamy’s evil plan? …

It is time again for Agile Yorkshire. This month the meeting is a usual the second wednesday in the month, but at a different venue - Old Broadcasting House (http://www.ntileeds.co.uk/old-broadcasting-house/)

The session is on Kaban For Software Engineering by David Joyce and Peter Camfield from BBC Worldwide, as lean …

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Microsoft’s WF/WCF host server codename “Dublin” now has a new cool name and a promise of a great future.

Windows Server App Fabric as it is now known since it has been merged with the product formally known as “Velocity” is to be the foundation for internal hosted scalable application farms, with the ability to …

Black Marble hosted the Second Architecture Forum in the North, and was delighted to welcome back Matt Deacon, Simon Thurman and Simon Davies from Microsoft.  this time they were joined by Mark Richardson and Giles Davies from the Developer Tools team.