I am delighted to be joining SixPivot, our amazing Australian partner, in taking part in the Safer Cities Summit in Brisbane this week. We are launching tuServ, our award-winning policing solution at the event, into the Australian market, as the first step to taken it global! I'll be joined by Faith Rees, SixPivot's …

After last year’s successful DDD, it will be in Reading for its thirteenth outing, on Saturday, 23th of June. Once again DDD is free for all to attend, thanks to some great sponsors – if you would like to be sponsor DDD, please email ddd@blackmarble.com. As ever I would love to see new speakers and new topics in the …

Chat and messaging bot design is still in it’s infancy, but a widely adopted principle is that bots should have a very focused application. Make it quick and easy to accomplish a task, and limit the opportunities for users to get lost or reach conversational dead ends. This is generally a good principle to follow, …

Whilst doing some NPM build work for VSTS Extensions I kept getting intermittent EPERM errors about renaming Windows files during NPM install (as discussed on GitHub)l. When you get this it completely blocks any development. As the Github issue discusses there are many possible reasons for this issue, and many proposed …

I have working on getting a Windows 10 Universal application analysed with SonarQube 6.x as part of a VSTS build. The problem has been that when the VSTS task to complete the SonarQube analysis ran I kept getting an error in the form 1WARNING: Duplicate project GUID: "8ace107e-8e3c-4a1b-9920-e76eb1db5e53". …

Are you enthused by the all news at Build 2017? Do you want to find out more about VSTS, DevOps and Continuous Delivery? Well why not take the chance to join us on June 17th at Black Marble, or one of the over 25 other venues around the world for the first Global DevOps Bootcamp? The Global DevOps Bootcamp is a free …

Several years ago, for the launch of Windows Phone 7, we built a game based on work we did on helping teaching AI with .NET. o7 was born. A great game, and now it is back in glorious UWP for Windows 10. Try it out and let us know what you think. Get it here. b

Once again I am so very proud to announce I have been selected to continue as a Regional Director for Microsoft for another two years. The Regional Directors are a truly extraordinary set of individuals and I am humbled every time I’m in their company. Not only for their extraordinary depth of knowledge and level of …

After last year’s successful reboot, DDD is back in Reading for its twelfth outing, on Saturday, 10th of June. Again DDD is free for all to attend, thanks to some great sponsors – and if you would like to be considered, please email ddd@blackmarble.com. Our aim is to make DDD accessible to all, making it free is key to …

Recently we had a great day demonstrating the great innovations we have made with HoloLens for the Police to a room full of jaded but ultimately enthusiastic, technology journalists. It was great to see their responses to the solutions we have put together, and heartening to read some of the things they had to say. …