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September 2006 - Posts

FASTDash Video on Channel9

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:16 PM by briankel
Another Channel9 video I recently filmed is now on Channel9: FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams This is a really cool Microsoft Research project being developed to help software teams gain a better understanding of Read More...
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Video tour of the patterns and practices lab

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:02 PM by briankel
If you caught my earlier blog post I wrote about the new and improved Microsoft patterns and practices lab here on campus. I also promised that I would work on getting a video tour so you could get a better sense for their incredible new workspace. Peter Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta Available

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:19 AM by briankel
The beta of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is now available! This includes several fixes and enhancements to the Visual Studio 2005 development environment as well as Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server. Brian Harry detailed what this means for Team Foundation Read More...
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More Team Foundation Server Adoption Evidence: Telemar

Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 3:27 PM by briankel
A new case study just went live which details how Telemar adopted Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Suite. Telemar's main challenge was that they outsource all of the programming for their software projects, but Telemar employees Read More...
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Interpreting Team Test Load Test Results

Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 10:23 AM by briankel
I just noticed a new article on MSDN which explains how to interpret the test results you get by running load tests with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers (or "Team Test" for short). Article: Monitoring and Analyzing a Load Test Result Read More...
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More Great Surfing Videos

Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 4:51 PM by briankel
In my post titled "What's this 'DataDude' thing anyway?" I talked a bit about Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals and then went off on a tangent about my favorite surfing video, Step Into Liquid . Ironically I received more emails about Read More...
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Joel Semeniuk Discusses Team System on DotNetRocks

Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 3:19 PM by briankel
I just listened to this week's episode of DotNetRocks which features a great Team System interview: Joel Semeniuk Updates Us on Team System . Joel did a really nice job of providing an overview of Team System and interjecting his own experiences using Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3 Available for Download

Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 1:47 PM by briankel
As James Lau points out, version 3 of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK is now available . This is a significant release for several reasons which James enumerated: DSL Tools V1 RTM IronPython web site and web project samples Updated contents and samples for Read More...
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Team System "Chat" transcript now available

Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:23 PM by briankel
It looks like the the transcript from our September 6th "Chat" on MSDN is now available . It was great meeting everyone who could make it - we had nearly 150 people during the live session which is simply incredible! Team System has become very popular Read More...
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What's this "DataDude" thing anyway?

Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:19 PM by briankel
My colleague Grace Francisco just posted a humorous but insightful overview of the newest Visual Studio Team System family member, code named "DataDude." The official product name is Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals, but Grace Read More...
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Team System Power Toys Galore!

Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 2:04 PM by briankel
If you haven't already done so, head on over to Brian Harry's blog to check out his post on the new Team System Power Toys . There are some really great new features designed to enhance your overall Team System experience. I especially like the annotation Read More...
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Urban Transit: The Gator Bus

Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:01 PM by briankel
Here's a fun thing to check out... some of my friends back in Florida recently purchased a retired "short" school bus which they plan on using for tailgating at University of Florida football games. They spent several months renovating it and decorating Read More...
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