Time for the usual reminder for the next Agile Yorkshire meeting. This month it is by Mark Stringer on ‘Techniques for dealing with difficult conversations & negotiations in software development’. Usual time, usual place, usual free beer. ….and just a heads up for the December meeting, as this is at a different venue, …

For those of you who are confused by the title, Robert, our MD complained bitterly that the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas only had Pepsi. I don’t know any geeks who like Pepsi, and a quick poll on twitter seemed to suggest that Robert and I aren’t alone. I just want to report that Berlin has restored my faith …

As you may know, TechE d 2009 EMEA is in Berlin this year. You may also know that this year is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I’m here in Berlin, which means that I’ll try to blog what’s going on at TechEd. However, this post is all about the really cool idea Berlin has for the celebrations! …

The new version of the Snippet Editor now supports Visual Studio 2010, if you are doing demo’s or like snippets get it here b.

I have recently upgraded my dual tier TFS 2010 Beta1 instance to Beta2. This is not an officially supported migration but it is certainly possible. The basic process of the update is straight forward: Remove Beta1 from the AT Install Beta2 Run the configuration wizard in upgrade mode (this took a few hours for DB …

… at the SharePoint Conference 2009. Black Marble can bring you the latest news on SharePoint 2010 … want to know what SharePoint Foundation Server is? We can tell you … what did Microsoft announce that will effect your business … come along and find out! Register for our preview of SharePoint 2010 and find out why …

Those good people at Microsoft have just released updated versions of IronPython and IronRuby CTP’s for .NET 4.0 ( Beta 2 ) to sync up with the Visual Studio release last week IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 2. IronRuby (no rev number so lets say 1.0) CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 enjoy b.

have been built in compliance with requirements and recommendations Microsoft has a link to a set of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Tools, get them here. The tool set includes great products such as FxCop. A SDL Thread Modelling Tool allows non-security specialists to enter already known information, …

We recently moved our central SQL server to new SAN hardware and at the same time upgraded from SQL2005 to SQL2008. Once this was done we noticed that our TFS Reports were running against old Warehouse data. Checking the TFS Application Tier event log we saw: TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team …

I recently posted on my experiences of Access 2010, well if you want to know more have a look at the video by Clint Covington and Ryan McMinn on Channel 9