Ozzie Rules Blogging

This week I will be at the Stareast Conference manning the Microsoft Test booth, meeting testers, sneaking into Anna’s incredible Test training, doing demos of our Test tools and something that will be a first for me- I will be physically attending an...

Next week I am at StarEast and thought this would be a good time to start working on my demos I am doing. (Nothing like thinking ahead!<g>) One of the demos I plan on doing is of Load testing a web site – So I started downloading a sample website...

If you are wondering why the decrease in postings, it is due to the fact I have moved most my blogging activity to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/

Not certain how Microsoft manages to get the incredible people we do to be our MVPs – but I am very glad we do! Today on a call i mentioned not having time to do blog posts for the new features in Visual Studio Update 1 and one of my MVPs (now one of...

I have been running three monitors for a while; but to do so I have had to run two video cards. Not certain why i needed two video cards but when connecting three monitors to a single video card the driver always forced me to chose which two i would display...

Now that Visual Studio 2012 is released; our architects and product planners are looking to do site visits for our vNext efforts. Right now the team is focusing on problems in the following areas: Small agile teams working within larger enterprise size...

(please excuse this post as it is a test for VS Update notifications) Feature Improvement: Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Grouping and Filtering in Test Explorer Window Code Map – add to map from editor, sxs map IntelliTrace Added additional support for...

(please excuse this post as it is a test for VS Update notifications) Feature Improvement: Microsoft Test Manager Several experience improvements in test case management and manual testing. Support for hierarchical queries Added support for update notification...

(please excuse this post as it is a test for VS Update notifications) Feature Improvement: Team Foundation Server 2012 (For more detailed information on these features please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/09/12/visual-studio-update...

I have recently had a couple of requests on how to run a subset of your tests; indicating that people haven’t see the blog post by Vikram Agrawal [MSFT] titled: Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter ****************************...

As pretty as the Orange was it needed to go so i thought i would try my hand at painting a car…how hard could it be? Step 1 Put on the Primer Step 2. Shoot some paint (note the engine is back out)     Step 3. Remove Tape Step 4. Reassembly Step...

Now that i had the motor in it was time to fix the suspension and brakes and put in an exhaust. The suspension was the original 25 year old stuff and totally worn out  i decided to start there....   1.  Poly Energizer Bushings from Courtesy...

So how did the initial build out go? Step 1 build an engine…with Chevy small blocks this is easy and cheap(ish)   Step 2 Get a hoist to put it into the car…My Doubting wife doesn’t think it will fit Step 4 Measure it<g> Step 3: Put the motor...

I was asked to do a write up on my car project build up i started a while back and hope to get back into this winter.  The largest challenge i had initially starting my car build up project was actually been deciding which car to start with; ever...

Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management            QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks        ...

I am always amazed at how much mail we generate and go through at Microsoft. Lately I was asked to create and send mail on how much mail the ALM MVPs generate (pretty certain the irony of this request was lost on the person requesting it). But in either...

I have created several boot to vhd images and found a path that only requires one command line step.   Step 1 Create a VM in Hyper –V. One important step in the creation, particularly if you are using an SSD is make sure the max drive size is...

  It is not too often that a sequence of events comes to together in a way that exceeds your craziest expectations.  But, that is exactly what happened back in late October when I decided to pick up the phone and call the general reception phone...

A Long time ago I watched a presentation with two presenters (Don Box and Chris Sells?) with Chris on the keyboard in charge of the code/demo and Don in charge of explaining what was happening. I immediately fell in love with the concept and even found...

One of my top MVPs is changing roles to a leadership position and was asking about how to enable community. Specifically if he could focus on three areas to enable community what would they be…. Must admit I hadn’t really thought of my role in those terms...

A couple of days ago I posted I was presenting at: Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Developer Day Feb 18th 2012 at Hyderabad This was my first foreign user group since Australia and always find it interesting how different cultures run their user groups.  ...

As I indicated in an earlier post my goal is to display DCS information on my CP170 chartplotter . Well I got it working this weekend and since I couldn’t find much information about this on the web thought I would post what it looks like and how does...

All the Chartplotters I have seen have water tight disconnects making them very easily removed – like my Simrad NX40(See picture) BUT all the NMEA 0183 DSC VHF radios I have seen have these same connections hardwired…. So if you wire your VHF to your...

I have not given up on displaying DSC information from my Matrix 2150– despite the fact my Simrad NX40 does not support DSC .   My contingency plan is to use my Standard Horizon CP170 chartplotter to display this information.  I figured...

The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team i.e. the folks that work on the user interface for Visual Studio are doing rounds of usability labs –and would love for you to participate! Specifically they are looking for participants to give us direct...