DDDNorth registration is now open, and I am sure will soon close and move to a wait list. So if you want to attend I would get in early

I have just been reading Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012 by Subashni. S and Satheesh Kumar. N from Packt Publishing This book does what it says on the cover, it is a general introduction to the testing tools within the Visual Studio 2012 family. My comment is not about how well it is done, it is a clear …

I have been using a Nokia 800 (Windows Phone 7.8) for a year or so and been happy with it. It does what I needed i.e. phone, email, media player mainly for podcasts. So given all the reported issues with WP8 and podcasts (no Zune client to manage the subscription/sync and you can only subscribe through the store if you …

You can now vote for the sessions you wish to see at DDNorth2 Hope to see you there on Saturday 12th October 2013 in Sunderland

I finally got time to upgrade my Surface Pro to Windows 8.1 Enterprise. One of the things I most want to test is DirectAccess, as I live and die by this on my main laptop. However, despite the computer object for my machine being in the group that the DA group policies are applied to, no DA settings appeared. TIP: On …

Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview was released a week or two ago. Being on holiday prevented me trying it out until I returned to the office. Everyone has different methods for installing Windows 8/8.1 on a Surface Pro. It’s actually pretty simple. Windows 8 can be done in the same way as I list here. However, you will …

With the 0.91 release the loss of performance going from 0.83 to 0.9 has been redressed. there are general improvements including better ASP.NET support. The Typescript site has all of the documentation and download packages for Visual Studio and Node.js http://www.typescriptlang.org/ b.

Every now and again I post about the great tooling for kids and geeks that Microsoft product, the latest update in this set is the Microsoft Mathematics 2013 update for Word and OneNote. The add in allows you to • Compute standard mathematical functions, such as roots and logarithms • Compute trigonometric functions, …

I was working on a TFS lab deployment today and to speed up testing I set it to pick the build of the TFS build that actually builds the code, as opposed to queuing a new one each time. It took me ages to remember/realise why it kept trying to deploy some ancient build that had long since been deleted from my test …

Hello welcome to my blog, this being my first post. I’m a Junior developer in test here at Black Marble and my day to day job roles are starting encompass dev-ops as well as testing. So there’s this one project we’ve been working on which I have been working to automate using end to end Build Deploy with Lab …