Last week at the MIX 11 conference in Las Vegas there were some huge announcements around Windows Phone during the second Keynote of the event. The first one was about the new features of the next release of the operating system “Mango”. These features...

  Below you can find the links to the slide deck and some other resources based on the session I recently delivered on “Improving Software Quality with Test Professional”. This session was largely focussed on the manual testing tools that can be...

Last night we held another successful community night at Microsoft in Bryanston with a record turnout of people attending. The community night is held every second Tuesday of every month at the Microsoft offices in Johannesburg. It is an open event to...

Devs4Devs is by developers for developers where anyone can participate and presenters can volunteer to present a session on any developer topic. Attendees get to hear from their fellow developers about something new and cool in a short, 20 minute presentation...

Another community night complete another community night coming up. Our next community night is on the 10th of May 2011. The community night starts at 4pm and ends at 9pm. This is a great opportunity to network and meet the communities that are around...

  One of the nice features in TFS2010 are the Excel Agile Planning Workbooks. One part that I have had some problems with is the burndown chart where I would get an error "the iteration dates are not valid" and recommending that I go the...

  A few weeks I presented a session on “Improving your Software Processes with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010”. I promised to provide the slides and resource links. You can download the slides via Skydrive here (made some changes ...

  A few apps were showcased at MIX 11 Day 2 Keynote, Developers start your engines…. Watch the MIX 11 keynotes here There are a few hacks out there, but with the official SDK Developers will be able to take advantage of: The latest advances in audio...

Today we have launched a new competition: The Video Creation Competition. In order to win what you need to do is create a video which demonstrates Microsoft technologies or products. The video can be from 30 sec to 5 min in length, and you need to submit...

  Using the Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools to Improve Software Lifecycle Management: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 provides a wide range of tools to improve your application lifecycle management processes. Attend this session for an...