Noah Coad

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It’s about time I blog that… my book has been published! Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System by Wrox Press . This has been over a year in the making! #1 thanks goes out to Jean-Luc David , the lead author. Not only did he let me...

WiFiFreeSpot.com is great site with listings of places with free wireless internet around the nation. Here in Seattle, hanging out at coffee shops is popular and I’ve gotten hooked! It’s just so much fun (and productive) to escape from the office or hang...

This is cool! People upload their .opml files that contain the list of feeds their subscribed to, and this site show the most popular subscriptions. I’ve already found a lot of great new feeds to subscribe to. They’ve got the top Podcasts...

My friend, and a VSTS MVP, Joe Sango had this on his blog, he is The Hulk , so I gave it a try. Quick easy and fun. My results below. ———————————————- You...

In today’s busy, long hour, stressful work force, keeping a good “work life balance” is a key goal. But what does this mean for the work part? I’m working with some managers in Visual Studio to address our people staffing needs...

Heck yeah. Frequently I’ll just want to work on some code and not nessasarily connect to our TFS server. Especially on my laptop when I take it from work to code away at home. How about the cases where the Team Explorer tool window was visible last time...

Carl Franklin , mastermind and producer of the ever-so-famous-popular-and-successful .NET Rocks! internet talk radio, has compiled a list of crazy faces from influencers at TechEd. At the influencers party, Carl just handed me his camera and said “take...

Two nights ago I created an app that lets me just right-click a file in Windows Explorer and it uploads the file to my FTP site in a temp directory so I can quickly and easily share files with friends. Just click it’s uploaded, and click the resulting...

I realize now I haven’t blogged a thing about my hockey team! About two months ago I enrolled in a 10 class / 5 week “learn to play” ice hockey course. It was great! I played a season of roller hockey in high-school, but have always...

During TechEd 2006, my buddy Jean-Luc David (JL), let me borrow his iPod Shuffle . Oh my gosh!! This little feller is awe some!! I just love the pure simplicity, elegance, easy of use, and… style. So beautiful! Of course, I had to use iTunes to...

Want to get the most popular Seattle experience in just a few hours? Want that insiders budget tour? Interested in seeing in person all the places mentioned on the Travel channel? Here’s the tour you’ve been waiting for! This little route has the cream...

Accentient has a web page with a bunch of links to cool Team System related products. Two of our VSTS MVPs run the company, Steven Borg & Richard Hundhausen. They do training courses around the globe on VSTS. Team System Widgets http://accentient...

Sonal Pardeshi is the product manager of the VS Team Test tools and recently visited the Tanzania Serengeti in East Africa. The pictures are awesome!! Incredible wildlife. I must admit, this has got to be one of the best photo collections I’ve ever...

Tonight was the big party for all attendees of TechEd! It was held at the famous Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Socks (baseball team). What struck me the most was how traditional and ‘old’ the place was. It was cool to see the original...

Saturday night (June 10) Jeffrey Palermo held his 2nd annual “Party with Palermo” party. Jeff is a good buddy of mine, an Agile Aficionado, and a fellow Texas A&M Aggie , whoop! It’s always a great place to meet new people. A...

I’m here at TechEd 2006 and WOW, we’re having a fun time. It’s great to see so many familiar faces and catch up with friends throughout the community. I haven’t been attending breakout sessions but have been helping out at the...

I’m at TechEd 2006 and getting a lot of slack from my fellow community memebers on the lack of posting I’ve done on my blog. Shesh, it’s been pathetic! No posts in like, forever. Sooooo, I’m trying something new, BlogJet . We’ll...

Our team, Team System Developer and Tester Tools (Unit Testing, Web Testing, Load Testing, Profiling, Code Analysis, Code Coverage, etc), is having our public MSDN chat on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 at 10:00am (PST, 1pm EST) at http://msdn.microsoft...

Adam Cogan of SSW Australia contacted a colleague of my mine, Jeff Beehler , with a request to review some Unit Test guidelines his company published. I took a look and they appear to be good ideas, well documented, and is presented cleanly an concisely...

Our team, Team System Developer and Tester Tools (Unit Testing, Web Testing, Load Testing, Profiling, Code Analysis, Code Coverage, etc), is having our public MSDN chat on Wednesday, January 17th, 2006 at 10:00am (PST, 1pm EST) at http://msdn.microsoft...

Here's a quick little bit of fun. I was just going through my Netflix rental log, and through ye-old memory banks, and put together this list of movies that I particularly enjoyed. Sometimes friends ask about Netflix (which is way cool), my 8-disc at...

Well in the switch from .Text (and msmvps.com) to Community Server (and blogs.msdn.com), there was a change in the MetaWeblog web service API that allows uploading updated to blog posts. Consiquently, unless I use the web page interface, instead of my...

The VS Debugger Team just joined my team, Visual Studio Team System Developer and Tester Tools! So now we can make ever more better integrated debug dev tools. In tribute, and since I was just talking to a coworker about this, here is a list of some of...

Welcome! This is the home of my new blog site. My old site was http://msmvps.com/coad , and this is where I'll be posting in the future. Expect the layout of the site to change significantly as I play around with skins and custom css.