January 2007 - Posts

Tags for Visual Studio 2005, Team System, and Team Foundation Server
I'm paving paths through the VSTS body of knowledge for my team. I like tags and tag clouds. They quickly tell me what people are thinking and talking about. Here's a list of tags I put together for my team: Channel9 VSTS All Media VSTS Videos VSTS Screencasts Read More...
Posted 30 January 07 09:32 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Using Live.com for RSS
Here's a quick set of steps for using Live.com ( http://www.Live.com ) as your RSS reader. What I like about it is that I can log in to it from anywhere. What I like most is that I can create multiple pages to organize my feeds. This let's me focus my Read More...
Posted 29 January 07 02:18 by J.D. Meier | 11 Comments   
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VPC with VSTF Single-Server Deployment
Below is a walkthrough of the steps I took to install VSTF (Visual Studio Team Foundation) on a VPC. I found a path that worked for me. I'm providing it as a reference both for myself and for others that might need it. I ran into issues during my initial Read More...
Posted 28 January 07 08:43 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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patterns & practices - A Team of Thieves
If you want a glimpse into our workspace and how we work at patterns & practices, watch the patterns & practices - A Team of Thieves video on Channel9 . Rory interviews Ed and Peter from our team. During the interview they bring up our previous Read More...
Posted 28 January 07 01:33 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Policy Verification Through the Life Cycle
I thought it might be helpful to share how I think about the problem of "policy verification through the life cycle." I use policy as a mapping for "rules", "building codes" or requirements. For simplicity, I think about requirements as either user, system Read More...
Posted 28 January 07 01:14 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Brian Foot and Dynamic Languages
Brian Foote gave an insightful talk about dynamic languages to our patterns & practices team . I walked away with a few insights from the delivery and from the content. On the delivery side of things, I liked the way he used short stories, metaphors Read More...
Posted 24 January 07 08:24 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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24 ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQs Added to Guidance Explorer
We published 24 ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQs now in Guidance Explorer . You'll find them under the patterns & practices library node. We pushed the FAQs into Guidance Explorer because one of our consultants in the field, Alik , is busy building out a Read More...
Posted 17 January 07 06:39 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Echo It Back To Me
Do people understand what you need from them? Do people get your point? A quick way to check is to say, "echo it back to me." Variations might include: Tell me what you heard so far to make sure we're all on the same page ... I want to make sure I've Read More...
Posted 16 January 07 05:07 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Guidance Explorer as Your Personal Guidance Store
Although Guidance Explorer (GE for short) was designed to showcase patterns & practices guidance, you can use it to create your own personal knowledge base. It's a simple authoring environment, much like an offline blog. The usage scenario is you Read More...
Posted 15 January 07 06:28 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Five Things You Didn't Know About Me
I was blog-tagged by Ed , so here are 5 things you probably don't know about me ... I've trained in Muay Thai kickboxing (head-butting and all), which reminds me I need to work on my splits again. I have lineage to a king long ago, in a country I don't Read More...
Posted 12 January 07 07:00 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
Context is Key
I was browsing Rico's blog and I came across his post Do Performance Analysis in Context . I couldn't agree more. When it comes to evaluation, context is key. If you don't know the scenarios and context, you can't trust the merits of your data or solutions. Read More...
Posted 12 January 07 03:33 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Analyzing a Problem Space
How do you learn a problem space? I've had to chunk up problem spaces to give advice for the last several years, so I've refined my approach over time. In fact, When I find myself churning or don't have the best answers, I usually find that I've missed Read More...
Posted 12 January 07 02:07 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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844 Guidance Items in Guidance Explorer
It's not 9 new guidelines, it's actually 70. It looks like my Guidance Explorer wasn't done synching when I wrote my previous post. Prashant sent me a quick note. Here is the complete status for Dec and Jan Dec – 33 Guidelines items (.NET 2.0) Jan – 37 Read More...
Posted 09 January 07 04:53 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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9 New Perf Guidelines in Guidance Explorer
You should see 9 new performance guidelines in Guidance Explorer (GE) . Well, not entirely new, but refactored and cleaned up. Prashant Bansode (from our original Improving .NET Performance guide team) was busy while I was out of office for the holidays. Read More...
Posted 08 January 07 08:55 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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From Guides to Guidance Modules
Have you noticed the transition from guides to guidance modules over time? My first few guidance projects were actually guides: Improving .NET Application Performance Improving Web Application Security Building Secure ASP.NET Applications While the chapters Read More...
Posted 07 January 07 01:59 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Idioms and Paradigms
John Socha-Leialoha wrote up a nice bit of insight on how Users are Idiomatic . John writes: "First, different users will have different definitions of "intuitive." ... Second, and this isn't conveyed directly by the definition of idiomatic, users actually Read More...
Posted 06 January 07 05:44 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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