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Microsoft Learning’s new Hardware Level 6

May 29, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I ran across this document today, which details out Microsoft’s virtualization strategy on implementing 64-bit (Hyper-V) virtualization in the classrooms. As virtual machines do more, and require more …

Microsoft

Mining Software Effort Data: Preliminary Analysis of Visual Studio Team System Data

May 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Ok, I’m on a Microsoft Research kick today. I admit it. Some of you know what I’m talking about – you find one cool project and that leads to another one, and another one and before you know it you’re …

TFS Development Visual Studio ALM

Realizing Quality Improvement Through TDD

May 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was talking TDD with Doug Seven at Tech-Ed last week. He gave a great presentation on Agile Development with Team System 2010. Afterward we were brainstorming on ways to get people to write unit …

Development Testing

Altova DiffDog now Supports Database Differencing

May 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I met up with the Altova folks last week at Tech-Ed and asked about any cool improvements or features in their 2009 version of DiffDog It turns out there are two new, albeit surprising, features in …

Conferences Development

Deploying GDR (R2) Databases

Apr 29, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As I was explaining how the Build > Deploy process is radically different this week, a question came up about licensing restrictions around the vsdbcmd.exe command-line utility that ships with the …

Visual Studio ALM SQL Server

What’s your favorite (Microsoft) product’s end-of-life?

Apr 26, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I happened upon this interesting Microsoft site the other day. You can lookup the end-date for mainstream as well as extended support for your favorite (Microsoft) software product, such as Team …

Microsoft

Oracle buys Sun

Apr 20, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

According to Bloomberg, the deal was for $7.4 Billon in cash. This should prove interesting, especially since Oracle now owns two major database platforms (Oracle and MySQL). On one hand this means …

Community SQL Server

Two Accentient Consultants Named Team System MVPs

Apr 2, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m pleased to announce that fellow Accentient Consultants David Starr and Michael Vincent have been named Team System MVPs! David Starr is the founder of the Elegant Code community blog and podcast …

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The economic downturn has hit our local Chinese restaurant

Mar 25, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

… but not in the way you might think. Our geek lunches and impromptu geek meetings usually end up happening at the Oriental Express (a.k.a Jimmy’s) here in Boise. Check out the fortunes that 3 (out of …

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