Are developers getting smaller?
We all know the sedentary lifestyle of your classic IT person can lead to ... shall we say ... bloat. I regularly joke that the only thing bigger than your typical (Unix) system administrator is his …
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Should you Migrate to Team Foundation Server or just Integrate with It?
That was the topic of our discussion today at VSLive! San Francisco. Unfortunately, in the short amount of time (75 minutes) we didn't get too deep into all of the tools and techniques, but I did get …
Read more →What's your VSTS worst practice?
For those of you who joined me at VSLive! this week in San Francisco, I had fun sharing many worst (or un-preferred) practices I've run into over the years. My talk broke them down into several areas: …
Read more →FinalBuilder 6.0 to integrate directly with Team Foundation Build
Last year I posted a note about how to integrate VSoft Technology FinalBuilder with Team Build. I really like FinalBuilder and think it's easy to use, compared with having to hand-jam the XML of …
Read more →Installing Team Edition(s) on your Team Foundation Build server
It's generally known that if you want to run any tests, code analysis, or database project build/deployment that you need to install one or more Team Edition of VSTS on your build server. What's not …
Read more →How maintainable is the code in the Enterprise Library?
Since first seeing the Code Metrics feature in the Development Edition of Visual Studio Team System 2008, I've been on a quest for bad (read: unmanageable) code. Rather than face the tool towards my …
Read more →Photos from the Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 Launch in LA
Back home now, and I have a moment to get the photos downloaded from my camera and uploaded to my blog. Next time I'll take my SD card reader with me.
As you can see, registration was quite busy. I …
Read more →Accentient to sponsor Boise Code Camp 3.0
It's not much, but we heard that call that there "wouldn't be free coffee" at the Boise Code Camp 3.0 this coming March 8, so we're kicking in, so that we can enjoy free coffee. Ahem.
This way, we …
Read more →Live from the VS/SQL/Windows 2008 launch
In this, my first post of (hopefully) several today, I'm sitting in the keynote session (next to Douglas McDowell), listening to Tom Brokaw warm up the audience. What a nice surprise. It definitely …
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