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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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Inside TFS global lists are created to store the names of completed builds that are then used to populate the SuggestedValues of such fields as Fixed in Build or Integrated in Build. Lots of folks don't want every build type they run to show up in this...
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Like everyone else in techdom I had to see if all the bad hype about Cuil was warranted. I am now torn on whether to pile on or say 'hey it's a beta'. But it doesn't say it's a beta. It should. Like every one else that tried Cuil I had to see what came...
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In this post I propose we should do more meditative development and officially begin The Meditative Developer . I was just sitting and reflecting on some programming I had recently done. Specifically I was reflecting on some unit tests I had created as...
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Dr. Randy Pausch has died. My condolences to his family. I never knew them. I didn't know the man either but he was an inspiration to me nonetheless....
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Wow - it's been over thirty days since my last post. What's changed since then? First, we've put http://inkubook.com into production. I'm very proud of the work I've done and that my team has done on this one. We killed ourselves getting it done, but...
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I've been doing Stormwind work since 4th September, 2007 . The projects we are managing in Stormwind started around the beginning of 2006, though. It's been a very rewarding experience all over. When we started (me and Claudio Figueiredo ), we were not...
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Read the Title Grab while it's hot Cheers,...
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IMPORTANT: It's really important that you read part 1 and part 2 before reading Part 3. I'll assume you did, so a lot might not make any sense unless you've read it. Introduction So in the previous two posts, we've established how we wanted to use and...
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IMPORTANT: It's really important that you read this post before reading Part 2. I'll assume you did, so a lot might not make any sense unless you've read it. Introduction Ok, in last post we decided on the following desired features for our WCF Services:...
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Introduction So, WCF is a pretty standard way of using remote calls in .Net at this point. The general usage pattern that we've seen around is: Create a WCF Service Application (usually ASP.Net) to be the host Create the service contract Implement the...
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Once more my friend Claudio Figueiredo amazed me coming up with a brilliant solution to a problem that was starting to shadow an otherwise brilliant implementation of the MVC Pattern. The new ASP.Net MVC Framework allows you to specify Action Filters....
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I'm a lame blogger, I know. There's been more than two years that my friend Heynemann has been teasing me to post more, and it's starting to happen more naturally these times. The reason that I blog less than I'd wish for is that I'm crazy about coding....
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I'm working on a new tool around interacting with team builds for my own use and ideally to make available to others. What are the interactions you most often have or desire with team build? Is it queuing a build, checking which builds have run, looking...
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It's been a while since I took a serious look at NDepend . I didn't realize how long it had been until I started evaluating the product again. Wow! is what I have to say. If you have an significant installed code base this is a must have tool. Outside...
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I've been trying to do something like this since C# 1.1. Tonight I got to do it: SomeCode.DoSomethingInProperty(cust => cust.Orders); My problem has always been that I couldn't (using delegates before) get what property you want to use. I could resort...
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You might not hear me, nor Mr. Beck or anyone, but certainly you'll hear Dart Vader:...
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I am in the midst of a foray into Silverlight for a new tool for TFS. I have dealt with Silverlight on various occasions and have to say that I continue to be impressed. What pleases me most is that I can take my existing knowledge in C# and really put...
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My good friend Claudio Figueiredo just pointed me in the direction of this pearl . Things like that look like just some random guys in ThoughtWorks being funny, but it isn't. I have worked for TW for 5 months now, and I don't see myself working for another...
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Somewhere, over the rainbow......
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That's how one feels when he's reprehended for Unit Testing....
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The Connecticut .NET Developers Group is having their first ever CodeCamp in Hartford, CT (USA) on August 16th, 2008 from 9am to 5pm at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center ( directions to the center ) in Bloomfield, CT. If you have never attended...
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I started thinking about a way to join the three most powerful tools for web development: MonoRail, Ext JS and JSON.Net. I realy think they were meant to live together for all eternity (which in IT world, means two to tree and a half years. :D) My way...
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I recently started taking Apture for a test drive. I twittered a comment on it stating that I liked it but thought it would likely be a lot of work. Apparently, Theresa at Apture monitors twitters as she dropped me a comment on my blog that asked... I...
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My good friend Claudio Figueiredo is writing a superb series on all sorts of stuff on the new ASP.Net MVC. I definitely advise anyone interested in it to check the posts out. So far he's blogged the following posts: ASP.Net MVC Experiences ASP.NET MVC...
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If you are using the Visual Studio 2008 DB Pro GDR CTP (that's a mouthful) you may run into a schema model size limitation. This will seemingly be resolved in the CTP 15 release expected toward the mid to end of July but until them if you happen to be...
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