If I were clever like Eric Sink or Bill Caputo, I'd be able to turn that catchy title in to a witty and insightful post about the software industry. But sadly for you, I'm not and (as witnessed in this blog) my writing skills are pretty awful.
Continue ReadingIf you've been wondering what I have been up to lately, then make sure you sign up for the following MSDN Webcast:- MSDN Webcast: Accessing Visual Studio 2005 Team System Using the Teamprise Plug-In for Eclipse (Level 200).
Continue ReadingIn my talk at the Belfast Launch Event, I gave some numbers of the differences that we had found when migrating our source from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server Source Control. Since then I've had a couple of emails asking for them again, so I'm including them in this blog post for posterity.
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[](http://tools.netgear.com/skype/)Like buses, you wait for ages then two come along at once. Following a wave of Skype announcements at CES, Creative have announced a new Skype phone.
Continue ReadingA nice post to start the day from Bill Caputo. I know he doesn't think of himself as an XP evangelist anymore, but I like to think of him as the _Pragmatic_ Evangelist.
Continue ReadingBuck Hodges recently posted about a problem with locks based on files types and shelving in VSTS Source Control. In the post he mentions a system called Gauntlet that is used internally in some teams at Microsoft. The Gauntlet system is very interesting to me.
Continue ReadingIt's probably obvious this one, but it took me a minute to figure it out. In VSTS source control, file version numbers do not go 1,2,3,4.. but they are versioned by the changeset number that the change was in.
Continue ReadingScott Guthrie has posted about a new web project type that will be available for VS 2005. I know quite a few people have been running into difficulties with the shipped way that web projects work in VS 2005 (especially when it comes to automating the build process outside of Visual Studio) and this new model sounds...
Continue ReadingVia [Rob] Some smart folks over at Avanade have started blogging about the Software Lifecycle (being Avanade, you'd expect this to be heavily focused on VSTS and it is). If anyone is going to be getting serious about using VSTS "out there" then you'd expect these guys to be bleeding edge.
Continue ReadingVia [Rob] Dave McKinstry has recently posted about his Approach to Process Customization with TFS. While I have been practising my work item definitions on a scratch project inside a team system VPC before applying them to the production box, he lays out a good process to help you avoid mistakes.
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