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Saturday, October 08, 2005 1:13 AM

The Build Master book has shipped!!

Hello, it’s been a long while. The two major reasons for my absence is the amount of time needed to get The Build Master book completed and the birth of my son! I am happy to say that both events have gone well and now I hope to have more time to blog
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Friday, April 01, 2005 12:02 AM

versioning part 2 (breaking down a windows file version)

I have had a couple of good questions from my previous blog entry on versioning of which I will address the first one here and the other one in another entry. 1) What should be used for a build number? Well I think as a rule-of-thumb a codeline in a source
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Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:33 AM

some Versioning ideas

When people talk about versioning this can be a very broad subject so let’s narrow this down a little bit… There really is only one version number that anyone should care about and that is the ‘file version’ of the files that you ship. I think this topic
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Saturday, January 22, 2005 2:45 PM

What bug tracking software does MS use?

I get asked this question a lot when I'm with customers so I wanted to add a link to ScottGu's explanation , and how customers will see this(or similarities to the in-house Microsoft tracker) in VSTS.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:24 AM

ok, notepad is the most popular editor but notepad2 is much cooler

I think most developers and testers will admit that when they need a 'quick-edit' tool they use notepad. If you want to use a notepad that is on steroids try this one: Tip of the day: If you save your file using "<filename> " notepad will NOT add
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Friday, November 19, 2004 12:12 AM

Stop the *Nightly Build* madness (but keep Daily Builds)

I think it is pretty much common knowledge in the software world today that ‘Daily Builds’ are a good and necessary practice. I do not think that daily builds was that common a practice five years ago. I love this movement to building your product every
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:44 AM

adding Korby's blog to my excellent list (for tons of VSTF info)

Visual Studio Team Foundation (VSTF and some VSTS info)
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:25 PM

What build tools does Microsoft use?

This is the most common question I get when talking with customers. I think it is important to point out that Microsoft does not have specific rules that every product development team has to follow. Instead we have a lot of best practices or guidelines
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Friday, November 12, 2004 2:27 PM

The Build Master Book - Microsoft's SCM Best Practices

Well I know I've been lame about getting this blog started but I have been very pre-occupied with writing a build book - "The Build Master" will be complete at the end of January 2005 and be available from Addison-Wesley in March 2005. (IN MICROSOFT FASHION
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