Convince Me You Can't Branch by Purpose
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!
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 …
Read more →Visual Studio Team System Announcements today
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 …
Read more →Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Access developers
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 …
Read more →What to Do with Left Over Stories
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 …
Read more →Shelving is the June Cleaver of TFS Source Control
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 …
Read more →Microsoft joins Object Management Group (OMG)
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 …
Read more →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 …
Read more →Boise SQL Server User Group Presentation
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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