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Oct 9, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As I have stated before, I am amazed at how an organizations culture (read: dysfunctions or strengths) are reflected in their source control systems. This is a really a restatement of Don …

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PDC Underground - be part of it!

Oct 1, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Whether you’re attending Microsoft’s PDC or not, The Underground is the place to be! Microsoft and INETA have joined forces to bring you a truly amazing experience in downtown Los Angeles …

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Visual Studio Team System Announcements today

Sep 29, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft published more information today about Visual Studio 10 and .NET 4.0. Click here to read the Press Pass and here to read some additional information. Oh, and for SA customers, some really …

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Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Access developers

Sep 18, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was invited by INETA to speak at the Pacific Northwest Access Developer Group (a.ka. the Seattle Access Group). Now, Access developers are typically "teams of one", but I thought that any team …

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What to Do with Left Over Stories

Sep 16, 2008 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You get to the end of your sprint and there is that are 2 incomplete stories left on the sprint backlog. Story A is judged to be 80% done, Story B was never even started. What do we do with these …

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Shelving is the June Cleaver of TFS Source Control

Sep 16, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Ever notice that no matter what shenanigans Beaver would get into, June always believed everything was fine? No matter how many scotches Ward had after dinner, there was no problem, according to …

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Microsoft joins Object Management Group (OMG)

Sep 15, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last week, Microsoft announced that they had joined the Object Management Group. OMG is the consortium responsible for many distributed, and object-oriented specifications. One of their sets of …

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VS Extensibility Roadmap

Sep 15, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I'm sitting through the two-day Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Developers Conference this week and Rico Mariani gave his roadmap to Visual Studio extensibility. Here are some highlights of the …

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Boise SQL Server User Group Presentation

Sep 12, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to those who attended the second meeting of the Boise SQL Server User Group. We had a good turnout of around 30 people and I hope everyone enjoyed my presentation of SQL Server 2008 Integration …

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