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Introduction I´m doing a JQuery based component for dynamic rows using Asp.Net MVC. What that means is that the following HTML would get generated: ... < tr > < td > < input type ="text" name ="model.Items[0].Name" /> </ td > <...
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It's the New Year. Though I don't typically create formal new year resolutions I do generally try to have a theme in mind. Last years was more time with the family. That had mixed success. I left consulting to spend more time at home and spent a tremendous...
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Currently a team member and myself are working on a small Silverlight app that deals with work items in TFS and associating some cost accounting values related to capitalization to these work items. We were going to be done last week with the first pass...
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http://www.leankanbanconference.com/ I'll be speaking, as will many of the leading thinkers in the Lean and Kanban software movement. Definitely worth a look at the site, and I really hope to see many of you there! The announcement from kanbandev: The...
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I think that a post is due, and the time of the year couldn’t be better. Personal News Well, a lot has changed in my life in 2008. Usually I don’t give personal details about my life here in my blog, since I tend to use this space for my tech ramblings....
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I think I have realized what is missing from my day to day professional routine. I'm not innovating, enough. That's it in a nutshell. I don't mean from a technical standpoint but from a business standpoint. I'm not close enough to the day to day business...
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This idea has been forming among our architecture group this week and I think it has enough potential to open up for public discussion. I'm hoping to get some good criticism and references to prior art I can draw on. Overview: Traditional stories provide...
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This post is entirely from my mobile phone so please excuse typos and formatting etc. I'm pleased with some recent changes in the primary TFS team project that I run for my scrum team and thought I would share. This was the first sprint in which we had...
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Hello all! It's been a good while since I've taken the time to do my own writing? Why is that? Here's your list of excuses... err... reasons. First, and most importantly, I feel that this is the time of year when I should withdraw a bit from thep professional...
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Hey, catchy title, huh? Before the flame wars start, I'm not saying that all business rules are poorly written, nor am I saying that I came up with a magic solution. Before I even begin talking about my idea let me give you some background. Background...
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As I have played with the Windows Live Agent (WLA) it has seemed that it had a limited shelf life with Microsoft. With Office Communication Server R2 coming down the line in Q1 '09 with it's support of IM bots I figured the handwriting was on the wall...
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I have just pushed out a few more changes to the Builder Bob of TeamPatter[ 1 ][ 2 ]. It won't be long and I'll be able to push this out to CodePlex for share. It occurred to me that I had not widely shared the Live Agent name. You can add it to your...
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What? I just managed to create Stormwind.Accuracy demo app using ASP.Net MVC (more on that later). The first thing I setup in any project I do is an IoC container. I won't do code without it unless it's a REALLY simple spike. Period. So, there I go setting...
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Just read the article from James Shore, about The Decline and Fall of Agile . It reminds me of a statement from a so-called programmer that: "As every software has a bug, I'm only contributing with the entropy." I think that's pretty obvious...
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Hey guys, it's that time again! Acccuracy just got a new release, and this one is full of goodies! Go on, read the release notes to see what's new, and grab the bits while it's hot! Cheers,...
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Intro Have you ever wanted to get an enum's description instead of it's ToString() representation? I know I did. Just override ToString()? Enum's don't allow overrides. Just use some method that switches based on the enum value? Switches are evil! Enter...
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Where I show a very simple time entry control implementation for TFS and discuss the sad lack of wider ISV partner products for TFS. The topic of time keeping in relation to Team Foundation Server (TFS) work items is always popular or infamous depending...
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Intro "Wait, are you crazy? Bowling and Agile?" No, dear reader, I'm not crazy. The team I'm working in right now just stumbled over a new technique (not sure if someone else does it, just before people start complaining about copyright infringement)...
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I'm finally pushing out the first TeamPatter samples. Look for a follow up post with the agents LiveId. Weeks overdue but I had some infrastructure issues I had to resolve on my host and it just took me a while to get around to it. :-( You'll be communicating...
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If you get a SQL Server 2005 SPID that is being blocked until it times out and the blocking SPID is -2 you'll want to look at the following KB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954669 . In my case there is an orphaned DTC unit of work. I can find the...
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Chipotle has the fastest service of any fast food vendor I go to. Rush hour, takes five minutes max. Go in when they're nearly empty and I can be out in under a minute. Feels faster than the best McDonald's times, even if it's not really. Why is this?...
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If you are a twitter person like me and also a Microsoft VSTS junky you may wish to start following MicrosoftVSTS on twitter or send out the command 'follow MicrosoftVSTS' from your client. Hmmm... wonder if they are also posting to a Facebook location....
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I’m typing this in the car on my way to Ohio to see the in-laws because I just finished having an incredibly compelling discussion with my wife. My wife is an educator and has a masters of education specialized in adult online learning with a minor in...
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I was a band member once upon a time. In middle school, I played French Horn for four years. Then, I didn't pick it back up for over 15 years until last December when my lovely wife gave me a wonderfully shiny silver French Horn for our five year anniversary,...
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First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections...
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I thought I'd share a silly little hiccup and easy oversight I encountered in developing a guidance project against WCF. I am doing some work this weekend with building out a pattern and standard for some WCF authentication protocols for the organization...
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Trust Value Integrity These three things are what I find to be the three critical aspects of all of the professional (and personal) relationships I share. Trust, for me, is continually completing the things I say I will do. Trust is easily built by committing...
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I know I haven't blogged in a long time, and I didn't intend to break the ice so soon, but I have some acknowledgments to make. First of all I'd like to say that the feedback I'm getting on Stormwind.Accuracy is brilliant! People are really loving it....
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It was rather nice. For a few minutes earlier today, I was able to experience the designer's perspective of Blend. We had a bug filed on one of our common controls' visual appearance, and a designer and a developer were pairing on cleaning it up. They...
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Every few months something triggers a series of thoughts in my head about overtime practices, behaviours, and incentives. Every time I think about it, my thoughts come back to a question of the relative incentives in the way our software development system....
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I'm a scrum practitioner and a Certified Scrum Master (I may soon decide to get my probably worthless but yet rewarding title of Certified Scrum Practitioner). I recently added some custom rules to Team Foundation Server work items related to the remaining...
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If all goes well this week I'll push out a sneak peek at where I am at on TeamPatter. I'll provide a Windows Live ID and some suggestions on what you can do to experiment with it. Granted, what you can do will be very limited but it will be an nicely...
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I was talking with a valued and well respected friend the other day- is there any other type of friend? - about where we each wanted to be in 5 or 10 years. Oddly, for the first time in my life I really don't know. I hadn't realized it until I thought...
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I know it has been a long time, but I have been doing several things at the same time. One of them is the reason for this post. I've started writing a book on reducing friction. Friction meaning the kind of things that slow down software development projects,...
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Let me begin that if one were to take the title and remove the words 'for TFS' the statement would be no less true. So far my experience in building some semblance of a natural language vocabulary and supporting constructs are no easy task. I think that...
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The Ubiquity prototype. I like it. It inspires me for applying this concept more thoroughly with TeamPatter...
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Don't ask me why I just enjoy this VW Commercial ....
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A lot of people don't realize that with Visual Studio Team System you can get code coverage results even when using manual tests. I was showing a team how to perform code coverage on manual tests, the results they get and how valuable this is. Their testing...
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I've been tossing around for a few years now some 'better living through IM' tools to tie into the Team Foundation Server (TFS) toolset. I have a not-even-started-yet-over-a-year-old project called TeamPatter on CodePlex to prove it. It's been one of...
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There is no need to attempt to determine the net effect of cities on costs in general. First of all, there is no such thing as costs in general. There are particular costs that matter differently to particular individuals and enterprises, and those individuals...
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I try avoid rehashing other news that will be heavily touted but I am excited by this and don't think this will get the blogosphere coverage of other more sexy items. With that said the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has been released. I encourage you to...
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Note to self: Try this out: http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/08/16/asp-net-mvc-tip-33-unit-test-linq-to-sql.aspx...
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I hate having to concede a technical design that just doesn't work. It's a good learning experience but also painful. I have been working on some TFS custom work item controls and I have a scenario that has kicked my proverbial... well you get the idea....
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I keep a lot of build scripts about because we have LOTS of applications. I also keep builds scripts in the tree beneath the app and for specific branches/releases. So being able to quickly get to the location of a build script is worth a ton to me. Thus...
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Being able to select windows explorer in the context menu of the source control explorer. Oh yeah... and the Add Items to Folder in the context menu which I have complained for three years about being missing....
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Wow, so much I probably should talk about, but I don't even know where to start. Massive amounts of networking, information, realization, and even contribution going on, and I can't unravel it at all right now. I think there's a lot of potential for transforming...
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I won't parrot too much the undoubted countless posts indicating that TFS 2008 SP1, Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 have been released. Instead let me give you a few pointers. Please read the installation guide and ReadMe file. If...
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Hey my three readers? How have you guys been? Hope you're good! :) It's that time again! The time when I come back from a long "non-writing" period. Usually when I'm not writing blog posts it means I'm working on something. This time I've been working...
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Those 'four words' (title) are in the lexicon and myth of Microsoft. If in doubt just Google it or check out one of my favorite montage videos . As I watch the Apple iPhone and App Store stories hit the wire it makes me appreciate that I tend to focus...
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Isn't loopback a redundancy? If it's a loop wouldn't it be back anyway? :)...
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