Microsoft's CSA Ed Gibson returned to Black Marble on the 21 January to impress the importance of security on another roomful of IT professionals and developers. Another excellent presentation, raising some key points that everyone needs to address. b.

The usual suspects of Black Marble speakers presented on the Microsoft technologies from 2008 and the forthcoming developments for 2009. A rapid fire run through covered everything from Oslo to Windows 7 through Azure and Performance Point to System Centre. All the news, and milestones for Microsoft releases in 2009 …

PNMSoft joined us at our day of events on the 21st January, to speak on Business Process Management. A fascinating presentation by Gal Horvitz was greeted enthusiastically by the room. All in all, a successful session. b.

The Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft are pleased to announce a series of technical briefings, targeted at ISVs and Start-ups, focused on the cloud based Azure Services Platform (first announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in October 2008). Black Marble are delighted to …

I am using Windows 7 Beta on my main PC, whilst trying to install an application today I hit a problem, the installer failed on start-up. Firstly I thought it was a corrupt MSI so I tried another application, but it did the same. When I checked the Windows Application event log I found the following Faulting …

Just seen that there has been a calls for speakers for DDD Belfast, another chance to meet up with like minded developers.

The XP Club did not manage to book the usual venue, the Victoria Hotel Pub in Leeds, for this months meeting as it was already booked. So for one month only, on the 14th of January, will be next door to Victoria Hotel Pub at the O'Neils from 7pm. Also, it has been decided there will be no technical presentation this …

Black Marble’s Annual Technical Update returns on the 21st January at 2pm … and we’re ready to reveal what little gems you may have missed in 2008, and what you can expect in 2009 and beyond. If you’ve never been to a Black Marble event before, this is a great introduction, it covers the products you know, and those …

I had the PDC CTP on my Netbook and that was OK so I had not expected any major issues. That said it has not been without problems, but all the issues I have logged as part of the beta program have been related to hardware detection (missing base stations and ignored physical Wifi switch state) on my Acer laptop. …

It is good to see how fast sessions have been submitted for SQLBits, a nice range already. And great news that the event on the 28th March is in Manchester. I have submitted an updated version of the session I did for SQLBits II on Team System, hope some people find it interesting.