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Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:50 PM

Lukas, Connect, HDD Failure and VS2005/VSTS

I’ve been out of contact for a few days (estimation will continue soon) and there are a few items I should mention: Lukas rocks – we know it – so should you…. Seriously, we got this though a few months back and the process is just real now so congratulations
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:32 PM

Clinic 2806: Microsoft Security Guidance Training for Developers

Michael Howard used to work for MSNZ and he has a good post on his Blog about some new security focused content for developers I’d suggest taking a look if you have the time.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:23 PM

Nigel Parker Joins Team

Nigel Parker has joint my team ( Developer and Platform Strategy ) as the Auckland based Developer Advisor. It’s great news for the team as we have been a little under resourced with Paul's departure . Nigel will be working on getting the local Community
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Monday, March 21, 2005 6:41 PM

Estimation: Historical evidence of the teams performance

So what if the individual doing the estimate is a star and thinks everyone else is as well – they estimate based on what they (think they) would be capable of (sometimes with a great deal of personal sacrifice added in). This is not a good situation for
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Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:02 AM

Estimation: Experience of the person doing the estimate

This is the single most important factor – but also the hardest bit to gain. It’s a classic Catch 22, you need to be experienced but how do you gain this without making mistakes? I’m not here to solve that one just to let you know this is vital. If pushed
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Friday, March 18, 2005 10:15 PM

Software Estimation – Getting it right

Software estimation is hard – and it’s not likely to change in complexity overnight. I’ve seen a number of estimation process and tools used across a large scale of projects (from 10K to 2Billion in pounds!). I though it might be interesting to write
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Friday, March 18, 2005 9:39 AM

Effective Application Delivery - It's easy

At the highest level I feel that delivering applications that are maintainable, reflect user needs and tradeoff appropriately between the expected budget, timeline and functionality comes down three things: Getting the right estimate Development process
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Friday, March 18, 2005 9:38 AM

New NZ .NET User Group Portal Launched

We have a new .NET User Group portal infrastructure in NZ – www.dot.net.nz – the community leaders (these guys rock!) have base this on Dot Net Nuke and it’s going to provide us with a really good base to grow our community. If you don’t subscribe to
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Friday, March 18, 2005 9:36 AM

NZ TechED 2005 – Date, Venue and Prices Announced

I’m the NZ executive sponsor to TechED 2005 in New Zealand – we have now announced the dates for the event on our corporate site: http://www.microsoft.com/nz/presscentre/articles/2005/mar_14_teched.aspx Abstract: Microsoft once again will be hosting the
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:43 PM

FREE - Technical Training – MS Connect Registration Open

The registration tool for our Microsoft Connect event is now live. See this post for details on the sessions covered as part of the event - we are covering: Developer IT Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System SQL Server 2005 Office System Security SQL Server
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:59 AM

Developer and IT Pro Content overview for MS Connection (April) event

We’re almost ready to start registration for this event and I thought I might give some early visibility on the content we will cover in the Technical Stream. All of this content is still in draft form and subject to change. I’m especially interested
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:42 AM

More on MapPoint Web Service

Over the last week I’ve had a couple of additional enquiries on the MapPoint Web Service. This is a reply I sent to a customer with some additional links on getting started with the service: For starting information on MapPoint have a look at these links:
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