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Aug 26, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As you know, Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released earlier this month. Most of SP1 was about bug fixes and performance, but it seems that the profiler team …

Visual Studio Microsoft ALM

Red Gate acquires .NET Reflector

Aug 26, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I got an email this morning, as I'm sure many of you did, from Lutz Roeder ... After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new …

Community Development SQL Server

Yep, I'm old

Jul 25, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

But at least I had a cool party to send me off to my next 40 years. Last Saturday, around 140 of my closest friends and family converged on a park in Boise to roast a pig, drink from the keg, and poke …

Life

Kathleen Dollard in Boise tonight

Jul 18, 2008 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Wow, two great speakers in less than a month. Last month, we had Kalen Delaney speaking at Boise's inaugural SQL Server User Group and tonight at the Idaho .NET User Group, Kathleen Dollard an INETA …

Visual Studio Community Development SQL Server Testing

Using 64-bit Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation OS, Part 1

Jul 14, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

I just replaced Windows Vista Ultimate x64 on my laptop with the 64 bit version of Windows Server 2008. What prompted the change? Well, I was hoping to improve the lackluster performance of Vista. I …

Windows

What does "Done" mean?

Jul 14, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

OK, let’s say you’re on a Scrum team that’s planning its next iteration. You pull a story to implement Feature X for the next release of Application Y. You review the specs, maybe have a conversation …

Scrum Preferred Practice Testing

DreamSpark

Jul 3, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

Back in the 80s (way back!) Apple got a toe-hold in the PC market in part by engineering a high presence in colleges and high schools. The theory was that if you get a young person started on an Apple …

Misc Development

Chasing the predator is a qualification for governor?

Jul 2, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I'm sure most of you have seen the (original) movie Predator, released back in 1987. First, Jesse Ventura became the governor of Minnesota in 1999. Next came Arnold Schwarzenegger who became governor …

Life

Michael Vincent on Dynamic Languages

Jul 2, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I got an opportunity to attend the LA C# User Group tonight, and listen to Mike Vincent speak on this subject. I'm familiar with the concepts and capabilities of dynamic languages, but looked forward …

Community Development Testing