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...

One of the areas Jason Zander has been working on is making information more easily found.  To this end I created the Visual Studio ALM Blog –and slowly corralling my team to using it! Even after all the ALM team is putting their technical content...

Working in the computer industry I realize integrating components from disparate vendors can be one of the hardest tasks you can do. In this case I started with  the seemingly simple task of displaying DSC and AIS data from one the Standard Horizon...

  Must admit I have a very cool job here at Microsoft…at the most basic level my role is to make sure your experience working with our developer tools is as good of an experience as possible!  …And today my job just got easier!   Hopefully...

  In this session Ben Day will review the top 10 ways you can cause unit testing to fail to work for your project. From readability problems and lack of trust to mock object abuse and semi-integration testing -- these gotchas can save you lots of...

Presentation Description: This presentation will be very demo heavy as we walk through how to create a coded UI test with Multiple UI maps. We will touch on some of the simpler techniques, but will be primarily focused on the advantages of multiple UI...

Thursday, 12 May.  Adam Cogan from SSW is presenting “Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2010" Tuesday 17 May 2011 Joel Pobar , will be delivering “High performance, high throughput .NET stuff he's been working on with an "unnamed Investment...

Mike Vincent just pinged me about a new user group he is running in SoCal dedicated to sharing ALM best practices particularly around SCRUM and Agile.  http://www.socalteamsystem.org/ His next meeting is on: The Scrum Product Owner - Big Responsibilities...

One of the ALM MVPs, Stephen Godbold, will be doing an event April 29th in Sydney for VSS Users migrating to TFS…Should be a great event! Event Description: Since 2005, Team Foundation Server (TFS) has been providing integrated version control, work management...

One of my MVPs Shai Raiten is just releasing a set of tools for the ALM platform.   Launch Announcement… Sela Technology Center, out of Tel Aviv Israel, is proud to announce the release of our unique software development productivity power tools...

To celebrate the release of his latest Test book Jeff Levinson is offering a low cost training event April 7th here on campus! To sweeten the pot every attendee will get a free copy of his book!     AGENDA Improving Quality, Productivity and...

A while back I took an Agile class from Rod Claar and he introduced me to the concept of using Fit tables for improving collaboration in software development. The way Fit tables do this is by enabling stakeholders and business analysts to enter expected...

Good friends Robert Green and Brian Keller have just rolled out a new set of online tutorials covering the following topics: C# 4 Visual Basic 10 F# Parallel Extensions Windows Communication Foundation Windows Workflow Windows Presentation Foundation...

I was sitting in Richard’s Scrum course last week when he mentioned “I wish we had notepad for creating work items”.   Since I had that hour kind of free I decided to write it for him. While I wanted the finished product to be a Windows gadget...

  Subodh Sohoni, one of my MVPs and the trainer that creates the testing eLearning for Microsoft, has offered a new set of training for Testers using the Microsoft Test Tools…At $23 you would struggle to find a book for this price!  I have listed...

Today the Visual Studio Test team released the “ Test Attachment Cleaner ” powertool on Visual Studio Gallery today!!!   In Visual Studio 2010 a downside of the data rich diagnostic data capture of Microsoft Test Manager is that the system/user generated...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 Scrum 1.0, which is a new Team Foundation Server process template that enacts Scrum. Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and agile software development. It was designed from the...

Join Richard Hundhausen and Charles Sterling for a drill-down into the new testing features and capabilities of Visual Studio 2010: • Defining acceptance criteria • Managing test cases • Creating test plans, test suites, and test configurations • Creating...