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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Users as Owners
This is one to file under the “duh” category. It’s a fairly simple and straightforward approach to working with users on a project and ensuring their participation. On large scale projects (this does not truly apply to agile because a … Continue reading
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Welcome to our new offices!
Northwest Cadence has recently relocated to centralized offices in downtown Kirkland. We chose downtown Kirkland, specifically on the Kirkland Marina, because it’s a fabulous location for our employees to work from and our customers to visit. Bike in, drive in, bus in, or sail in - … Continue reading
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VS2008 Beta 2 VPC from Microsoft is Expiring
Warning! If you downloaded the VS2008 Beta 2 VPC from MSDN, you are in for a nasty shock on November 1st, 2008! The VPC is unexpectedly expiring. Microsoft is attempting to get another one released with an updated expiration date. … Continue reading
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New Tester Center at MSDN
Microsoft has launched a web site dedicated to the tester community. Although it seems to cater more to the technical tester (rather than the strictly black-box tester), it promises to have many valuable articles and resources. This is a welcome … Continue reading
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TFS and Software Configuration Management
I’ve posted a new column on FTPOnline showing some basic practices for using TFS for branching, merging and releasing software. You can view the article here.
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Thoughts on your software engineering process
In the time I have spent lecturing, teaching and working with Team System I have heard the following statement more times than I care to count, “Yeah, we know we have a problem, but we can’t get anyone to do … Continue reading
Seattle Code Camp 2007
Hi everyone. This seems last minute but we had some technical issues (go figure). Seattle Code Camp will be held on November 17th and 18th [Updated date!] at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. In particular I’m looking for sessions on … Continue reading
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Can I recover my source code after I use TfsDeleteProject?
Surprisingly, you can, at least in Visual Studio Team System 2005 (including SP1). If you’ve deleted your team project using TfsDeleteProject, the source code files are still actually there in the database, just not visible any longer. To recover the … Continue reading
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New Team System User Group
Several companies have gotten together to create a new Seattle Team System User Group! Currently there is really only one user group dedicated to .NET in the Seattle Area (King County actually since it meets at Microsoft on the east … Continue reading
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a Warm Welcome & Brief Blog Intros
I’d like to extend a warm ‘welcome’ to those who are visiting our site for the first time (in other words, a ‘welcome’ to you all since our sites new and I’m sure it’s your first time!). We are pleased … Continue reading
New Beginnings.
Why the new blog? Why the new web site? Why the new name? Let me explain. Over the past several years, I’ve dedicated my professional life to Visual Studio Team System. I was involved from the very first betas, contributed … Continue reading
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New VSTS Book Released
To start off my inaugural post for Northwest Cadence, I am announcing the Second Edition of my book Pro Visual Studio Team System with Database Professionals. You can buy a copy of it at Amazon (Pro Visual Studio Team System … Continue reading
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