Agile Yorkshire Martin Fowler event is full

Next weeks Agile Yorkshire meeting with Martin Fowler is now full (and the venue is twice the size of our usual one!). I said it would be popular. There is a reserve list but I would not hold out too much hope.

March 8, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Lessons learnt building a custom activity to run Typemock Isolator in VS2010 Team Build

Updated 25th March 2010 - All the source is now available at the Typemock Add-in site Updated 2nd July 2010 - Some usage notes posted Updated 26th July 2011 - More usage notes Updated 21st Nov 2011 - Typemock Isolator now has direct support for TFS 2010 Build, see usage notes I have previously posted on how you can run Typemock Isolator based tests within a VS2010 using the InvokeMethod activity....

March 8, 2010 · 13 min · Richard Fennell

Getting sick of seeing the Vodafone error “HTTP Error 403: The service you requested is restricted”

Of late I keep getting ‘HTTP Error 403: The service you requested is restricted’ when I try to use my HTC Diamond2 mobile phone on Vodafone. I see the problem whether browsing the internet with mobile IE or Opera and also when using the phone as a 3G modem from my Windows 7 laptop. Seems to happen every other day of late. Interestingly, when I got the error shown above whilst trying to browse to Bing, a connection, on the same 3G link, from my PC to our Exchange server was working fine....

March 8, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The Teamprise Eclipse plug in for TFS gets a new name

As I am sure you remember a few months ago Microsoft bought Teamprise and their Java clients for TFS. Well the team has got out their first Microsoft branded release, details can be found on Martin Woodward’s and Brian Harry’s blogs. This beta provides the first support for TFS2010 This release is very timely as I will be talking on the Java integration via the Eclipse plug-in at QCON next week and at the Architect Insight Conference at the end of the month....

March 8, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Martin Fowler is speaking at Agile Yorkshire this month

A slight change to the usually arrangement this month at Agile Yorkshire. The speaker will Martin Fowler who will be talking on “Software Design in the 21st Century”, but the meeting will be on the 17th March (which is a week later than usual) and at a new venue The Adelphi in Leeds. This promises to be a very interesting session. I saw Martin speak at a JavaOne conference, a good few years ago now, and it is still one of the best presentations I have seen at any conference....

March 2, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell