Tag: Development

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

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

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

Two Types of Bugs

Jun 27, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

A bug is a bug is a bug, right? Not so! Most development shops treat a bug as a task. That seems reasonable - it's a bit of work that needs to be done. Unfortunately, it's not so easy. If a bug is …

Scrum Preferred Practice Development Azure Boards

Version Control with 2008 SP1

Jun 25, 2008 • 1 min read • David Starr

I am a simple man. All I ever wanted was drag and drop for source control. That folder chooser dialog was a bear. Now we will get it with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Thank goodness. From the web site: …

Tools Development Visual Studio ALM

Elegant Code to host Open Space Get together

May 28, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Elegant Code is hosting an Open Spaces session. An Open Spaces session is a discussion where the attendees generate the topics. There will be no presentation, no lecture, no PowerPoint slides, …

Community Development

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

Design for Operations

Mar 17, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

Have you ever had a production application in the data center act up, and you spend countless hours hunting down the source of the problem? If so, then then you might be interested in a new project on …

Development Visual Studio ALM Testing

Are you aware of Aware Server?

Jan 24, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last week I had a chance to meet some of the brains behind gridGISTICS - a .NET development company in Atlanta that gets it. Not only are they up to speed on the latest .NET 3.x technologies, but they …

Visual Studio Tools Development