June 2008 - Posts
I as a developer (sure I am in the majority here) paid my dues with practicing waterfall and other bulky process/methodology before I stumbled on agile practices and learned by reading Kent's book on eXtreme Programming (XP). A colleague of mine introduced
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This year's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is taking place in Los Angeles between Oct 27 th and 20 th . Check out the conference web site at http:///www.microsoftpdc.com to register and save $200. As a member of a track team, I can tell you
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Team Foundation Server is a platform for process enactment with a collection of templates including the ones we ship in the box, ones from partners and from the community (See a list of templates at MSDN Process site). These range from MSF Agile template
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p&p team just released a beta version of the " Improving Web Services Security" guide. Here is the link to Codeplex project where you can download the guide. This guide has the following four parts: Part I, "Security Fundamentals for Web Services"
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David Anderson , an ex-colleague of mine at Microsoft is the chair for this year's APLN Leadership summit in April. There are some great topics that are being planned for this year's summit including Collobration Games, Agile Program Management and Agile
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Two of our VSTS MVPs (Martin Danner and Joel Semeniuk) have just created a project on CodePlex to set you process templates free: Templex . This is a tremendous community idea and one I hope the community gather around and share some cool process customizations
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