- The Imagine Cup Software Challenger 2008 has opened with a new format for 2008. You will need to get your idea in by December the 14th and then (hopefully) onto an innovation accelerator and then to the final UK round. I think the new format will help level the field a lot allowing teams to shine with innovation not …
Read More I see Bradford, where the Black Marble offices are, has been ranked the greenest city in the UK. Strange that at the technology centre we are in there is no recycling at all, not for paper, cans or plastic.
We have asked if such a service can be laid on (developers drink a lot of can of coke), but were told that …
Read More- Just got home from a long day of Black Marble hosted presentations. This morning I was presenting on SQL 2008, seemed to go well. This afternoon it was a very busy MSDN session by Martin Parry and Daniel Moth from the Microsoft DPE team on VS2008 and .NET 3.5. Finally this evening there was a interesting community …
Read More Using class member variables will not work if you want to persist state between invocations. This seems to be due to the way sharepoint manages timer jobs. A solution is to use the Properties *property* which is exposed to all SPJobDefinition subtypes. This is a hashtable which accepts a key value pair. Usage:
1public …
Read MoreI was looking for a way to store references to forms libraries.. web services etc from sharepoint workflows and also infopath forms hosted by MOSS forms server.
They both run under the same process therefore can access configuration settings in the web.config of the container web application.
Read MoreThe voting for DDD6 is now open - as I always say vote early vote often.
I hope my submission of a proposal for a session on Scrum is of interest. I know I have had feedback on my previous sessions that people want to know more on this area.
Also saw today on Colin Angus Mackey's blog that DDD7 DDD Scotland will be in …
Read MoreLast night went to an excellent free meeting at the Yorkshire Extreme programming Club given by Clarke Ching entitled :
Programmers may be from Mars, Customers may be from Venus ...
but why does everyone think that Project Managers are from Uranus?From the title I was unsure of the content, other than it would be …
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