09 October 2008
Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications
I get asked reasonably often - "How can I use Team Foundation server (TFS) to support Sharepoint application development?” Guidance is now available on MSDN which promises to help you provide an integrated development environment and single source code Read More...
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02 October 2008
Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release
One month after after our NZ Team system users group talk on Visual Studio Team system power Tools, over on Brian Harry's blog there is a new post previewing the next TFS Power tools release . Here are seven good reasons to talk with your Team system's Read More...
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30 September 2008
Visual Studio Team System 10 on Channel 9
I will be covering some of this material in a fortcoming New Zealand Team system Users group session later this year. In the meantime this session is well worth watching as an early 'heads-up' for what is coming in Visual Studio Team System 10 (aka Rosario). Read More...
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17 September 2008
Events - Architect forums in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland
Title: Just like being there – Combining video with geo-spatial data by Matti Seikkula Combining the visualisation of being there with the knowledge of where you are and with relevant information about that particular location is a powerful concept. Its Read More...
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17 September 2008
Events - Unplugged sessions of interest to solutions architects and web designers
These Unplugged sessions by Nigel Parker are very much complimentary to the current series of Architect forums. We figured it would make sense to showcase some excellent work done with Silverlight via the architect forums at the same time Nigel was discussing Read More...
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17 September 2008
Events - Unplugged sessions of interest to Infrastructure architects
I always feel a bit guilty about the amount of stuff we do via the MS Architect community for Infrastructure architects as oppossed for the Strategic and Solutions lot. The excellent Mr Nathan Mercer, just back from his gig in Singapore, is holding a Read More...
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10 September 2008
Model Driven Development – Microsoft joins OMG
Object Management Group (OMG) are a modelling standards group. Last week at Tech-ed 2008 I gave a talk that included, amongst other things, a quick demo of the UML designers in the April CTP of Rosario (the next version of Visual Studio Team System). Read More...
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08 September 2008
Tech-ed 2008 is dead - Long LIVE Tech-ed 2008 !
Tech-ed live is on-line ! In the opinion of yours truly who has been to absoluley every Tech-ed ever in New Zealand this years event was another success. For sure one may refelect that last years Tech-Fest was better than the year befores etc but on balance Read More...
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29 July 2008
Tech Ed 2008 Australia: 20% discount for NZ attendees who missed out on Tech-ed NZ
With New Zealand Tech Ed 2008 selling out so quickly, we know there are many disappointed customers who missed out on securing tickets. An option for some may be to attend Tech Ed 2008 in Australia. Held in Sydney on 2-5 September, Tech Ed Australia features Read More...
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14 July 2008
The Case for SOA - Harvard Business Review
For those of you interested in the 'business justification' and Return On Investment (ROI) of Services Orientated Architecture (SOA) there is an excellent article in the June 2008 edition of the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Entitled "The Next Revolution Read More...
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04 June 2008
Aspiring Architect Series 2008
I am always keen to see new architects entering the 'fold' - earlier this year we had Darryl Chantry down from MS Redmond and he gave a series of well attended talks via a series of architect forums espeically for 'Aspiring architects' and career development. Read More...
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12 May 2008
The New Zealand leg of Ron Jacobs 3D Tour – 20 May to 23 May
I am really looking forward to Ron Jacob’s tour next week – he now has his own website at www.ronjacobs.com For those of you who don’t know who Ron is (where have you been ?) his bio is at the end of this blog post. In a nutshell Ron is an awesome intellect Read More...
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11 May 2008
VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) – SP1 Preview
Brian Harry recently put up this blog post on what is coming in TFS 2008 SP1. There are some very useful and downright cool things coming – some personal favourites are; - Visual Source safe migration tool (lots of folk have been asking about this) - Read More...
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01 May 2008
Tech-ed 2008 NZ Registrations are now open
These were opened up last night - see http://www.microsoft.com/nz/teched08/index.aspx A bit of insider info - being directly involved with both expect to see some really good stuff in both Architecture and Voice of Customer tracks. I'm impressed with Read More...
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01 May 2008
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released
I love the power tools available for VS 2008 TFS - they add an incredible number of features and functions both for specilaist roles and for meeting specific needs in the areas of configuration integration and administration. The latest release is available Read More...
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