Power Toys as Shared Source @ Microsoft
All about providing developer-solutions as Shared Source / Collaborative-Development
I’m at TechEd 2009 presenting on CodePlex – from how to consume and contribute to open source software using the CodePlex feature set, to how we use agile development to deploy every 3 weeks. All sessions will be available 24 hours after the talk. Stay
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Ever since I joined the CodePlex team, I’ve wanted to learn something web developer-ish. At long last, I was finally able to make the time to start learning CSS and Javascript by writing the CodePlex Tips Gadget and by re-skinning the CodePlex Team blog.
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Am I really doing this to myself again? Well yes, kinda. One thing I learned from the Visual Studio Tip of the Day is that you can get a lot of great feedback if you scope a blog post to a single piece of functionality. I want to get this level of feedback
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Agile is the single greatest things a team could do to significantly improve the user experience and quality of their site. Now having said that... If I could go back in time… 3 things I would tell myself about Agile For a long time, I’ve said that my
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Over on the CodePlex Team Blog, I announced the Open Source Club on CodePlex . An except from the post: The Open Source Club (OSC) is a group of volunteers who contribute what they can to the specified open source project each month. If you’ve ever wanted
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I’m going to be in town after Mardi Gras, so I thought it would be fun to do geek dinner that Wednesday. Keith Elder, the Hub City .NET User Group leader, has the details : Who can attend : Anyone that wants to talk about open source software, codeplex,
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Over on the CodePlex blog , I just posted the stats for the year in review. Here’s a sneak peek: Site Traffic 2008 2007 % increase from 2007 Visits 19,493,502 8,891,178 +119% User Hours 2,804,898 1,237,356 +127% Unique Visitors 9,811,365 4,532,440 +116%
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I’m heading back to Ohio next week for another CodeMash. My write-up from last year says it all. And yes, I found my friend Rob again by writing a hand-written letter. I can’t recall the last time I wrote a letter to anyone. I’m looking forward to chatting
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Last week, I spoke at the Engineering Excellence / Trustworthy Computing Forum to Microsoft employees at the Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen about CodePlex. I also attempted to do 101 Visual Studio Tips in 50 minutes, but only got through 85 tips.
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I do most of my blogging about CodePlex over on the CodePlex team blog , but every now and then there’s something cool I want to share over here with you all. We did our first ever CodePlex Town Hall meeting at PDC with members of the CodePlex community
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My camera battery died after Day 2. Must buy new camera that charges via USB (instead of draining.) As announced on the CodePlex team blog, Channel 9 and I hosted the first ever CodePlex town hall. Thanks to Tamir Khason , Joseph Guadagno , and Kevin
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And some more pictures… In the slides preceding Monday’s keynote, my name was shown for the book signing. It was quite moving to see my name in front of 6,000 people. The book signing And some CodePlex supporters visiting the booth. Below is Tracy
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http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-15-visual-studio-tips-and-running-an-agile-team-with-sara-ford/ Wow, was i tired at the beginning or what? I was in the middle of my southern speaking tour, driving all around the south at all hours of the day
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My 2 talks, plus my 20 Visual Studio Tips in 7 minutes micro-talk, are available at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx I highly recommend checking out the 7 minute presentation, but don’t take my word for it. Thanks to Guy Smith-Ferrier for
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Sara Aside: Matt and I were IM’ing each other this morning, and he congratulated me for the book being sent to printing yesterday. He asked me if I planned to sleep with it like a stuff animal. I said of course I was going to. In fact, I would sleep with
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