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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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27 March 2007
VSTS Guidance from Patterns and Practices on Codeplex
The Patterns and Practices team have been busy working on upgradeing the following content in VSTS guidance. There is some really good stuff in here espeically if you are wanting to perform some of the more 'intricate maneouvres' associated with source Read More...
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27 March 2007
NZ .Net User group - Code Camp - Architecture, Patterns and practices
The .Net User Groups are holding their next code camp in Auckland on April 14-15 . The theme is Architecture, Patterns and Practices. Presenters : Some of the speakers lined up include Jeremy Boyd , Andrew Peters , Ivan Towlson and Alex James . Who For Read More...
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26 March 2007
Jolt awards for Visual Studio Team System DB-Pro and VSTS storyboarding tool
Its true to say that there are now probably more developer aids and tools out there than you can shake a stick at. One of the ways that folk can seperate the wheat from the chaff is to look at things like the 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards Read More...
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08 February 2007
Part 3 of 3 : Understanding Application Life Cycle Management (ALM).
Microsoft’s scalable ALM solution. Having led development teams in the past there are 4 key things that I look for in ALM solutions ; 1) They scale – they make sense for small thru large projects and teams; 2) They are relatively complete at covering Read More...
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02 February 2007
Part 2 of 3: Understanding Application Life Cycle Management (ALM)
Enter Team Development including the Team of one. Picking up from yesterdays post we see a key component of ALM is multiple activities. Those activities from yesterdays blog post (Part 1) including project management, requirements management, modelling, Read More...
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