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31 March 2009
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Catalyst Live Workshops
If your into Visual Studio Team system or thinking about it then check out this link to the free ALM Catalyst Live Workshops series. These workshops consist of four two-hour interactive workshops that are repeated over a period of sixteen weeks (starting Read More...
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16 January 2009
Big Deal #1 – Cloud computing - Announcements from PDC in Los Angeles – Oct 2008
Speaking personally – ‘Big Deals for Me’ of 2008 I am starting the New Year with reflections on the year just gone in the form of three ‘big deals for me’ that came out of 2008. I’ll discuss each of these ‘Big Deals for Me’ , how they are inter-related Read More...
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09 November 2008
October Power Tools now available - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008
Following up on my Team system user group talk on Power Tools earlier this year I am stoked to see that the new edition of power tools previewed earlier in Brian Harry's blog here have now been released and are available for download here . These Power Read More...
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30 October 2008
Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA1) – From Codeplex
This guide in BETA1 form is a document that will help with both the understanding and execution of acceptance testing. It provides useful role definitions, process models and decision making guidance in a form that is relatively easy to digest compared Read More...
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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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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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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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18 April 2008
Coming up - Team system user groups in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland
The next round of Visual Studio Team system user groups are getting underway – we have Richard Vowles of Developers Inc speaking this time around; Title: How does your team manage its work? In this talk we will be discussing how various team members can Read More...
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27 November 2007
VS2008 RTM week – some good VS Team System links
A Busy week. This one is for Visual Studio Team system users - I've extracted a number of blog posts and downloads that are most relevant for Team system users. Dont forget that if you wish to join the mailing list for the NZ Visual Studio Team systems Read More...
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15 November 2007
Test Driven Development on NZ ARCast
Two guys who can talk on a subject they love equals one Podcast gem . Recently, in a role reversal, Lukas Svobda host of NZ Arcast shoved a microphone under Ron Jacobs (hoster of worldwide Arcast) nose and they discussed mainly Test Driven development Read More...
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05 June 2007
Code Analysis and Code Metrics - Orcas Team Developer & Suite
Building quality in ! - The next release of Visual Studio Team developer has some very nice features for those 'true practitioners of software quality' in the form of Code Analysis and Code metrics. I say 'true practitioners of software quality' because Read More...
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08 May 2007
Calling Visual Studio Team users in the Canterbury area - VSTS DB-Pro session 17 May
As I've mentioned on a number of occaisions a number of folk out there are keen to get something akin to a VSTS/TFS users group up and running - if you are interested in such a group and you live in Canturbury then check this out (Note that AKL and WLG Read More...
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08 April 2007
Patterns & Practices - Enterprise Library 3.0 released
Hot off the press from the P&P team key points for me are; Integration with WCF and Visual Studio not to mention Windows Forms and ASP.NET for the Validation Application block; Relevance to Ivar Jacobson's (one of the fathers of the Unified Process) Read More...
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