The seat is Gone!!! May from Myspace was the first person to reply! Also Amir wanted me mentioned while there is no cost to attendees the seat is still being paid for by Net Objectives and Microsoft. We are just passing this on to a lucky individual rather...

A couple of people asked about getting Amir's presentation from the Testers SIG Tuesday... Well Amir has graciously posted it to their site for your convenience: http://www.netobjectives.com/files/events/download/AcceptanceTesting_0807TestersSig.pdf Thanks...

Are you a Hero? Will you be crowned Australian Demo Hero 2008? Demos Happen Here - Final Week of Competition This is your FINAL 36 Hours to register a demo in the competition, with entries closing midnight Thursday 31 July 2008 you must complete the registration...

Managing Software Quality – Trent Nix Code coverage statistics, code churn data, cyclomatic complexity, maintainability indices, and build reports are but a few of the many tools used to analyze the quality of a software project. But what do they all...

I received this email yesterday: Dear Sir, 3 month ago I have downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Version. This free trial edition expired last week. At the first of july I have bought DVD-ROM UPGRADE Microsoft Studio 2008 Standard Edition...

Net Objectives have just release there Agile Template for the .NET Framework - I was able to to get a preview a couple of months back and it looked really good, in my preview i could see they have done a lot of work onthe sharepoint and documentation...

Yesterday at the Testers SIG we had packed agenda and a packed house! Starting with an introduction to testing in Agile development by Amir at Net Objectives , did a walk through of recording a manual test, taking the recording and turning it into a coded...

I was in the process of installing Windows Server 2008 64 bit to be able to run Hyper V when I realized this is not a requirement. Turns out you can run Hyper V created VHD’s with Virtual PC as long as you have installed Virtual PC additions installed...

Arguably our most influential tester at Microsoft has just created a blog. The reason i would put James at the top of the tester leader board has nothing to do with his three books on testing but rather the fact he managed to talk the XBox team into giving...

Server Side Applications This month, we wrap up our series of presentations on the WAVE Launch products with a demonstration by Dean Robertson (Shared Information Solutions) of how server-side applications can take advantage of the new features within...

Introduction to Rosario In this session Mitch will be providing a guided tour of some interesting new features coming in Rosario (the codename for the new version of Visual Studio Team System). This includes looking at the new workflow-based build system...

At Tomorrows .NET Usergroup meeting i want to demo a couple of the new features of Visual Studio Team System Test Edition . Namely the ability for the Web Test Recorder to Record AJAX requests and JavaScript pop-ups. To do this i needed to find an Ajax...

Come Early for Pizza! The .NET Developers Association will provide pizza before the event. The beverages and meeting site are provided by the Microsoft Corporation. Meeting Room Opens @ 6:00 PM Pizza served at 6:30pm Announcements Introductions, Announcements...

If you wanted to know more about Database Testing make sure and check out Andy Leornards show with Greg Low @ http://www.sqldownunder.com on Testing with Team Sytem Database Edition

When i left the office a couple of hours ago the entire Data team was still there...I am betting they are all at the bar now! Congrats Guys! From Gert's Email: Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP http://www.microsoft...

The next Team Test Special Interest group will take place on Monday July 28 th from 3-5:30PM in the Microsoft Building 25 training room ( map ).  This session will feature a hands on lab of the latest functioning code that our developers have been...

Next Wednesday long time good friend Michael Kleef will be leaving Australia to join me here on campus -He is joining the Group Policy Group! - Just hope he gets a house in my neighborhood! Andrew , can you be and sure and turn out the lights when you...

http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/team_system_news/archive/2008/07/16/26510.aspx Big thanks to Ed, Bill and the MVP's that trialed and tested this release!

This month at the Brisbane MSDN User group they are showcasing a Real-world WPF application. by Patrick Klug from Novamind .  I Synopsis: A Winforms/WPF real-world hybrid application showcase along with WPF goodness, development best practises and...

This month my good friend Greg Low will be presenting a session on Avoiding Stored Procedure Recompiles . In this session, Greg will describe the process by which SQL Server executes stored procedures and how it decides whether or not recompilations are...

Grant just pointed out that we announced a partnership with Netflix today where existing Netflix subscribers will be able to use their XBox Live Subscribers to stream movies! I can not wait! Hopefully the DRM will work a little better than it does on...

In my post Team Foundation Server Process Templates?   I mentioned where you could find some of the existing templates.  A couple of weeks ago some of our MVPs Martin , Ed and Joel created a codeplex site to share templates and best practices...

Good friend and creator of the lots of Virtual Earth applications, Bronwen Zande, has been very busy and has organised the inaugural Girl Geeks Dinner in Brisbane for next month. While this is obviously not a VSTS event, I thought it was important to...

Last week i got a piece of email from Ed Blankenship(below). Basically indicating he was willing to use his own money to fly up to Redmond and take vacation time to do something for the community. Luckily for everybody my truck is filthy so i can put...

Just recieved this in email and must admit it made me mad! Why did this event (which looks to be a great time) make me Mad? I can not believe i didn't think of doing something like this several months ago for VSTS! I guess that is okay, a lot of the VSTS...