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Apr 10, 2008 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You'd think this would be simple wouldn't you? Well, I liken it to trying to get out of a Casino - the doors are not clearly marked, for obvious reasons. Here's my scenario I have a domain (or two) …

Life

TFS Team Project Permissions Relief

Apr 10, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When creating a new Team Project in your Team Foundation Server, everything is nice and smooth right up until you get to the permissions of groups and individuals. This can be a real PITA because …

TFS SQL Server

Multiply your team's voltage by working in parallel

Apr 3, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

My final talk at VSLive! San Francisco this week was on one of my favorite topics - parallel development. In other words, dealing with the real-world situations where multiple developers are coding …

Visual Studio Conferences ALM SQL Server

Are developers getting smaller?

Apr 3, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

Conferences Development SQL Server

Should you Migrate to Team Foundation Server or just Integrate with It?

Apr 3, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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What's your VSTS worst practice?

Apr 3, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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: …

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A Geeky Road Adventure

Apr 2, 2008 • 1 min read • David Starr

I am currently in Jacksonville, North Carolina to teach a 3 day Team System class to the U. S. Marine Corp. To get here, I took 3 planes today with the last one loaded up with Marines on their way to …

Misc

Who is a Product Owner?

Mar 28, 2008 • 2 min read • David Starr

Because of the decentralized control model of Agile software development methodologies, there is a living debate on the role of a Product Owner, particularly in Scrum which defines the term. Here are …

Misc Azure Boards

TFS Global Lists Cannot Be Deleted

Mar 26, 2008 • 1 min read • David Starr

Seriously. They can’t. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=259259&SiteID=1 You may delete specific values, but not the list itself. This means you can effectively "zero …

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