I think most developers and testers will admit that when they need a 'quick-edit' tool they use notepad. If you want to use a notepad that is on steroids try this one: Tip of the day: If you save your file using "<filename> " notepad will NOT add...

I think it is pretty much common knowledge in the software world today that ‘Daily Builds’ are a good and necessary practice. I do not think that daily builds was that common a practice five years ago. I love this movement to building your product every...

Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTF and some VSTS info)

This is the most common question I get when talking with customers. I think it is important to point out that Microsoft does not have specific rules that every product development team has to follow. Instead we have a lot of best practices or guidelines...

Education B.S. Engineering Physics, Oregon State University, 1989 - course work included several classes in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Employment Hired as an Hardware Support intern at Microsoft in 1989 as I was going to return to OSU for a...

Well I know I've been lame about getting this blog started but I have been very pre-occupied with writing a build book - "The Build Master" will be complete at the end of January 2005 and be available from Addison-Wesley in March 2005. (IN MICROSOFT FASHION...