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Update 4/Aug/2012: See post on my implementation of a 2012 version of this activity If you are using Typemock Isolator in your unit testing then you be wanting to include then in your automated build process. Unlike other mocking frameworks you have to do a bit of work to achieve this with Isolator, this is because to enable its advanced features of mocking items like sealed private classes you have to start the interceptor that does the magic prior to running the tests and the switch it off afterwards....

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

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

I have been finding the ‘hit the windows key and type’ means to launch desktop applications in Windows 8 quite nice. It means I get used to the same behaviour in Windows or Ubuntu to launch things, no need to remember menu locations just type a name, all very slickrun . However, I hit a problem today, I hit the windows key, typed Visual and expected to see Visual Studio 2012 and 2010, but I only saw Visual Studio 2012...

I am speaking at NEBytes next week on VS/TFS2012 with Andy Westgarth, check the NEBytes site for details