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July 2006 - Posts

Using Visual Studio Team System in Microsoft Legal.

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 6:11 PM by briankel
I wanted to highlight this Channel 9 interview with Richard Murillo who is a lead developer at Microsoft responsible for building and maintaining the internal applications used by our legal teams. In this video Richard does a great job of demonstrating Read More...
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Supporting Agile Development at Microsoft with Next-Gen Workspaces.

Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:58 PM by briankel
This week there was a great article in Microsoft's internal newsletter ( MicroNews ). The article profiled one of the next-gen workspaces at Microsoft where our patterns & practices team works. MicroNews graciously allowed me to re-post the article Read More...
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Learn how to Phrogram.

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:28 AM by briankel
No, that's not a typo. "Phrogram" is the new name for the Kid's Programming Language (KPL) developed by Morrison-Schwartz. KPL was designed to help first-time programmers have fun learning to code. It has attracted a wide interest from kids, parents, Read More...
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Yes, R2 is supported.

Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 10:48 PM by briankel
I've seen a few people asking whether or not Windows Server 2003 R2 is a supported operating system for installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server. According to the Team System product team R2 is in fact a supported platform. Remember to check Read More...
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I need a new laptop.

Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:15 PM by briankel
Check this out - Scott Quibell and Rob Cecil figured out how to make the LED lights on their Dell XPS laptops change color based on the status of their project's latest build status in CruiseControl.NET. Sweet! Mike Swanson just cross-posted this to his Read More...
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Sponsoring YouTube Videos.

Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:11 AM by briankel
I'll confess - I'm a YouTube addict. Sometimes I'll spend hours a week just looking for great videos. Of course there are plenty of terrible, non-interesting videos floating around, but with a little bit of patience and search know-how you'll find plenty Read More...
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Windows Live Search: My new preferred search provider.

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:03 PM by briankel
I've recently fallen in love with the new search features on Live.com , otherwise known as Windows Live Search. To-date I've been using MSN Search as my default search provider, and I even blogged about how I think it ranks better than Google's search Read More...
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