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20 Developer Lines of Code per Day - Good?

Aug 30, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Up front: I believe that Lines of Code is a USELESS metric. However, people are often shocked by the raw number of lines of code that are written each day by a developer. What's your …

Misc Testing

Code Churn - Predicting code failure with an accuracy of 89%

Aug 30, 2005 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Every time I show the show off the wonderful reports that are automatically generated by Team Foundation Server, I usually get asked about the Code Churn report, and what Code Churn is. After …

Visual Studio ALM

The Circumference of Google (divided by the Diameter of Google minus 3)

Aug 30, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It's my math background... But I just have to post this! Google is offering 14,159,265 shares of stock. That's the first 8 digits of the decimal expansion of Pi. Cool.

Misc

Visual Studio 2005 update

Aug 22, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here are some of the points from Soma's blog entry this morning ... We're 77 days out from launch In September, there will be a Release Candidate (RC1) of Visual Studio 2005 This RC will be available …

Visual Studio ALM

Attend free Visual Studio 2005 Team System training in Boise - 8 September, 2005

Aug 21, 2005 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When 09/08/2005 (8:30 AM - 5:00 PM) Where Microsoft Boise, CW Moore Bldg, Basement Conference Room A, 250 S. 5th Street, Boise, ID 83702 Click here for directions Registration Registration is free; …

Visual Studio ALM Azure Boards Testing

SQL Server 2005 RoadShow - Minneapolis!

Aug 16, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you for attending the Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 event in Minneapolis. I hope you liked my presentation of the new developer-related features. As promised, here are links to the slides and …

Conferences SQL Server

Does there exist an XSD schema for web.config or app.config?

Aug 13, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It was a simple enough question that Ethan, my .NET remoting student, asked me yesterday. I did some research, and couldn’t find anything official from Microsoft, just their human readable …

Microsoft

I'm the database geek of the week?

Aug 12, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Just "of the week"? I'm hurt. :-) My interview with Simple Talk is online now.

Visual Studio Microsoft SQL Server

VS.NET Command Prompt here!

Aug 11, 2005 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thanks to Mike Gunderloy for creating this cool INF file. Even though it’s been around for a couple of years, I just found out about it!

Microsoft