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Webinar on PreEmptive Analytics tools on the 28th of May
Mon, May 20 2013 10:47

A key requirement for any DevOps strategy is the reporting on how your solution is behaving in the wild. PreEmptive Analytics™ for Team Foundation Server (TFS) can provide a great insight in this area, and there is a good chance you are already licensed for it as part of MSDN. So why not have a look on the UK MSDN site for more details the free Microsoft hosted... Read More...

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Filed under: VSTS, Events

Follow the Yorkshire Global Windows Azure Event
Sat, Apr 27 2013 4:48

Today Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event. To see what is happening check out the photos on our Facebook gallery and the #GlobalWindowsAzure Twitter hashtag Read More...

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Filed under: Community, Events, Azure

Thanks for attending my webinar on lab management
Tue, Apr 23 2013 5:58

Thanks to everyone who attended my webinar session today in TFS Lab Management, I hope the audio issues were not too much of a problem and you found the session useful. We are looking into the causes of the audio problem so hopefully the next webinar will not need people dialling in via the phone unless they want to. A number of people asked for the slides, you... Read More...

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Filed under: Lab Management, Events

Lab Management webinar next week
Thu, Apr 18 2013 10:53

If you are interested finding out more about TFS Lab Management why not come to the Black Marble Bite size webinar next Tuesday (23rd April). I will be giving a basic overview of the product and discussing some of our experiences implementing it. Read More...

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Filed under: Lab Management, VSTS, Events

Great event in Antwerp
Thu, Apr 18 2013 6:46

I had a great time yesterday at the VISUG Conference in Antwerp , thanks to everyone involved in event. The ALM track organiser Pieter and all the speakers, myself, Martin and Neno , were really pleased to see how full our room was all day. There certainly seems to be more interest in ALM than ever before. If you want to find out more on areas of TFS I was talking... Read More...

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Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Chapter of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp on the 27th of April
Thu, Mar 21 2013 7:45

Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Chapter of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp taking place in several locations globally on the April 27th, 2013. This free community organised event is one day deep dive class where you will get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep real world experience with Windows Azure... Read More...

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Leeds# Meetup 8 - Coding Dojo - Thursday 31 January
Thu, Jan 24 2013 6:26

If you are at a loose end next Thursday and in Leeds, why not check out the Coding Dojo at the Leeds Sharp user group. Unfortunately looks like I am on a client visit, but it does sound interesting Read More...

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Speaking on Windows 8 development
Thu, Jan 10 2013 15:22

On the 23rd of January I am doing a short presentation on the various options for Windows 8 development in Visual Studio 2012 as part of the Modern Jango ‘Tools for Windows 8 - Tips & Tricks on Visual Studio 2012 to inspire beautiful app development’ event. For more details check out the UK MSDN site Read More...

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Agile Yorkshire - December Lightening Talks
Tue, Dec 4 2012 3:31

December's Agile Yorkshire, on the Tuesday, 11 December 2012, will be Lightening Talks covering a range of agile topics and be held at a new venue The Round Foundry Media Centre. Submissions for Lightening Talks are still arriving so the precise agenda may change but proposed topics included: Visual agile assessment for improvement Continuous Integration... Read More...

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Upcoming free events from Black Marble
Wed, Nov 14 2012 15:07

Winter is rushing on, so it is time for a new season of Black Marble events in Yorkshire. 21 Nov 2012 (All day) - Whats New in SharePoint 2013 All the updates and announcements from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference around SharePoint 2013. 27 Nov 2012 (AM) - An Introduction to Windows 8 Development We welcome Microsoft Evangelist Mike Taulty to present a morning... Read More...

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Two bits of good news – DDDNorth and Raspberry PI
Tue, Aug 28 2012 8:06

The registration has opened for DDDNorth 2 (In Bradford) where I will be speaking on Unit testing in VS2012 Also my Raspberry PI has just arrived – after only 6 months of waiting, but I don’t think I can work it into my DDDNorth session Read More...

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DDDNorth session voting is now open
Wed, Aug 8 2012 9:57

DDDNorth2 session voting is now open Read More...

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SUR-40 (what used to be a Surface) event at Leeds Sharp User group
Mon, Jul 30 2012 5:19

I am pleased to say that Black Marble will be doing a session at the Leeds Sharp User group on the evening of the 30th of August on the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense (what used to be call a Surface2) . Should be an interesting session as we will be bringing one of our rental units along for everyone to have a go on. Read More...

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Filed under: Community, Events, Surface, Leeds-Sharp, sur-40

Next Leeds Sharp user group meeting is a coding kata session
Thu, Jun 21 2012 2:43

The next Leeds Sharp user group meeting on the 28th of June is a Kata session using Conway’s game of life. For more details see their site . Not sure if I can make it yet have to keep an eye on my ever filling diary Read More...

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DDDNorth session submission is open
Mon, Jun 18 2012 3:47

Session submission has opened for the next DDDNorth on the 13th October at Bradford University . Why not submit a session? Read More...

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DDD North to be held at Bradford University on 13th October
Thu, Jun 7 2012 4:53

This years DDD North is to be held at Bradford University on 13th October, keep an eye open for the call for speakers Read More...

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On the panel at Tech.Days: Visual Studio 11 Online Event
Mon, May 28 2012 15:08

A while ago I recorded a video Visual Studio Team Foundation for Everyone , this forms part of Tech.Days: Visual Studio 11 Online Event, 28th June 2012, 1pm to 3pm . To lift the agenda from the MSDN site This event will cover the key new features and capabilities that Visual Studio 11 offers software development teams, and the opportunity to ask questions to... Read More...

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DDD South West session on Unit testing in VS11
Sat, May 26 2012 7:04

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at DDDSW today. The session was completely demo driven so no slides to share, but the contents of the session is covered in the blog posts Unit testing in VS11Beta and getting your tests to run on the new TFSPreview build service Now that VS11 has a fake library do I still need Typemock Isolator to fake out SharePoint... Read More...

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Filed under: Community, Events, Testing, DDD

A bit busy with upcoming presentations
Tue, May 15 2012 5:22

I am a bit busy with upcoming  presentations, all of which are free to attend Monday 21st May - Black Marble Webinar ‘How to Kick start your ALM Process ‘ Tuesday 22nd May – Typemock Webinar ‘Using Typemock Isolator to speed up the development of SharePoint Web Parts’ Saturday 26th May – DDD South West (Bristol) ‘Unit Testing with Visual Studio 11 Beta’... Read More...

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Interested in Windows 8 Development?
Sun, May 13 2012 10:15

Are you interested in Windows 8 Development? Well if you are Black Marble are running  a free event on Windows 8 on the 30th of May in Leeds . Also Jon Fowler, one of our development leads has just started a series of blog posts on converting Prims to .NET for Windows 8 metro style apps . This is all tied to his port of Prism to Metro which you can download... Read More...

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Filed under: Events, Windows 8