A few weeks back, I wrote about how we aren't asking for sponsors for our online Developer Day, as there aren't any significant costs to cover. Instead, we were directing people towards making a donation to The National Museum of Computing, an organisation which does great things for our industry, but has been finding …

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A question I am often asked when consulting on Azure DevOps is ‘how can I automatically create release notes and how can I publish them?’. Well it is for just this requirement that I have written a set of Azure DevOps Pipeline Tasks Release Note Generator - to generate release notes. I strongly recommend this …

Just shy of a full year from my last post. Crikey So it’s another TFS related post, but not specifically to do with TFS. I still perform TFS migrations/upgrades from time to time here at Black Marble as we still have many customers who can’t migrate to Azure DevOps for one reason or another. A few weeks ago we …

I recently started working on a new Logic App for a customer using the Enterprise Integration Pack for Visual Studio 2015, I was greeted with a familiar sight, the schema generation tools from BizTalk, but with a new lick of paint The Logic App requires the use of Flat File schemas, so I knocked up a schema from the …

An interesting aspect of a TFS Upgrade I found myself in recently was to do with SharePoint Integrations with Team Foundation Server. As a bit of a pre-amble, back in the day, when TFS was a bit more primitive, it didn’t have a rich dashboard experience like it does today, and so leaned on it’s distant cousin …

Firstly it’s been a while (about 4 years or so) since I last blogged, and so there’s going to be a bit of a gap in what I blog about now versus what I used to blog about. Why the big gap, and what’s been happening between I might talk about in a future post but for now I thought I’d share a recent war story of a TFS …

So as there has been some issues with submission, and because we are still keen to drive some Designer sessions to DDD 13, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for 1 week, to the 16th May. Please take this opportunity to get some great content in there, so we can build the best DDD we can. Submit here: …

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I am delighted to announce the DDD site is now live for session submissions! Get in early to make sure you don't forget. Always a great opportunity to get in front of an enthusiastic crowd. Please do submit, and we would welcome first-timers. The audience is friendly, and so many speakers, that are now on the …