This is the GitHub account for my contributions for Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in Integration projects using the Azure/Microsoft stack.
As CTO of Black Marble, I am responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow my company, and our clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Visual Studio TFS and an agile process model. I am an MVP for Visual Studio ALM (nee Team System), an ALM Ranger, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng)
I am a regular presenter at community events in the UK and Ireland (and the rest of the world given a chance) where my most common subjects are DevOps, software testing and the development process.
If you are looking for my OSS community contributions I use the GitHub handle @rfennell
- Problem running Playwright UX tests on hosted Github Actions Runners
- Powershell token replacement failing for MSDeploy in GitHub Action
- Fixes for issues moving from on-premise Azure DevOps agents to Azure Managed DevOps Pool agents
- A first look at using Azure Managed DevOps Pools
- Watch out that Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 drops support for SQL2017