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Monday, April 30, 2007 5:19 PM

You Talkin' to Me? Well then - Package This!

Two tools I love: Package This and Patterns & Practices Guidance Explorer .
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Monday, April 30, 2007 5:44 AM

The Death of Zen and the Restroom Hand Dryer: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

It was a few years back and my wife, Suzanne, and I had somehow come to discussing the air hand dryers in bathrooms. She was, as most people I see in restrooms, not patient enough to really use the hand dryers and preferred paper towels. The reason being
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Monday, April 30, 2007 5:04 AM

Agile Deep Dive at MIT Sponsored by GBC/ACM Part 2

I'm now sitting in a hotel in Rutland, VT. First, in an aside, let me say I understand my wife's comment when I said I was coming to Rutland for a week. She went to school at University of Vermont and law school at Vermont Law and worked as a prosecutor
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 9:19 AM

Agile Deep Dive at MIT Sponsored by GBC/ACM

Sitting in a weekend long Agile Deep Dive seminar sponsored by the Greater Boston Chapter of ACM and each of the attendees. I say attendees in that it was not free. I'm especially looking forward to Ron Jeffries presentations on XP so that I can finally
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Friday, April 27, 2007 7:11 PM

Boston Team System Public User Group to Go Simulcast and Virtual

I am not yet promising a timeline but I will be putting together a roadmap as a plan for bringing the classically Boston area Team System Public User Group to becoming a virtual user group. This would mean access by anyone from anywhere with archived
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Friday, April 27, 2007 7:00 PM

After My Tech Ed BoF Scheduling complaint...

After I complained a little about my Tech Ed placement I was contacted and assured that the placement was because they thought the session would be a great wrap up to the Community Coding track but offered to see what they cold do to move me to a different
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Friday, April 27, 2007 5:14 PM

5 More Joost Invites

I have five more Joost invites. Hit me up if you want one. michael.ruminer at gmail. Technorati tags: Joost
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Friday, April 27, 2007 9:38 AM

Ugggghhhh!!! NaOH

This is killing me. A local town water supply was corrupted by the release of too much Soduim Hydroxide from the treatment plant into the water. NaOH is a caustic base commonly called 'lye' in the US. After a few days they have it under control and the
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:19 PM

My Sidebar is a Hog- especially the RSS Reader

The title says it all. I really am beginning to detest the number of times that the Sidebar and most specifically the RSS Reader decides to simply consume huge amounts of processor time. STOP IT!
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:27 PM

One of my BoF Sessions Picked Up

One of my Birds of a Feather sessions for Tech Ed 2007 was picked up. The notice is as follows: Michael Ruminer, Congratulations, your Birds of a Feather session, “Collaborative Development in the Organization and in the World”, has been accepted for
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:57 AM

The Mean Time to Failure Software View a.k.a What the Hell are We Doing?

What the hell are we doing? As a software professional I am very frequently asking myself that question. I'm not certain we know. Or maybe we know but we continue on anyway. Today I have a general dissatisfaction with the world of software development.
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Monday, April 23, 2007 8:27 AM

Visual Studio Team System Chat

Don't miss this weeks Visual Studio Team System chat. It will be on Friday from 1pm-2pm EDT. The link below is to the MSDN Online Chats page. As of this writing the add to calendar link seems to not be working. Link to MSDN Online Chats Technorati tags:
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:57 PM

Perceptions on ScrumMaster Training After Day 2 a.k.a I'm a CSM

Okay. I finished up day 2 of the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course. I went in very skeptical but found it all very worthwhile. I learned a lot. I cleared up a lot of questions that I had and answered a lot of questions I didn't know to have. The enthusiasm
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 9:38 AM

Where Are YOU Taking Your Career?

Notice I did not title this 'Where is Your Career Taking You.' I firmly believe each individual is firmly in charge of where his career heads. Where are you taking your career? I was recently speaking with a friend who had just returned from business
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:13 AM

Claimspace - I like it

The title say it all. http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2007/04/19/tagspace-meet-claimspace.aspx Technorati tags: Claimspace
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 9:18 AM

Korby Parnell Introduces Microsoft Tagspace

I like the things that come out of Collaborative Community endeavours of Microsoft. One of the major players is Korby Parnell who's blog Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer is a great resouce on not only what Microsoft is doing but also Microformats
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Friday, April 20, 2007 6:32 PM

TFS Work Item XML Export Part 2

In a post a few days ago I discussed TFS Work Items represented as XML. I promised at that time to report when a wiki page had been created to collect stories (requirements) for the creation of a backlog I have created said wiki page. You may need to
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:15 AM

Perceptions on ScrumMaster Training after 1 Day

I have been pleasantly surprised with the first day of ScrumMaster training. The insights that are simply lost in translation from author to book to reader is very large. This has closed that gap or as might be referred to as clearing an impediment. We
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:37 PM

Do You Need TFS Work Items as XML?

Do you need TFS work items as XML? I've looked around and haven't found an easy way readily available for people to get TFS work items out as XML. Do you need this? Some of the reasons I have found for the such a feature is the ability to take the XML
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:12 PM

Joost Invites

I received 3 Joost invites today. One was promised and given away. I have two more. If you want one let me know. Technorati tags: Joost
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:42 PM

ScrumMaster Certification

I'm very excited to be attending a two day seminar given by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-creators of the original Scrum methodology. I come out of this as a certified ScrumMaster as recognized by the Scrum Alliance . I have to admit I am not a person
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:28 PM

WSS 3.0, TFS and NOT Orcas

I try to avoid repeating the same news from the communities I am most closely aligned. I figure if I have read it so have everyone else that reads what I might have to say. But this is such great news that I couldn't help but pass it along. Brian Keller
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:50 PM

70-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server

Anthony Borton posted about the results of the TFS Beta Exam beginning to come back . I naturally logged into Promteric and sure enough in my history it showed: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server NEW HORIZONS Microsoft 071-510 Passed I was
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:26 PM

Goodbye Windows Live One Care

Goodbye Windows Live One Care. It's been nice knowing you. This is a hard break up I know. I wish I could say 'It's me not you' but 'It's you not me'. You have been a little flaky all along. You Vista support came late and you didn't or may still not
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:09 PM

Want to live in Raleigh? Qualified to be a Program Manager?

If you would like to live in Raleigh, work for Microsoft, are passionate about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and think you have the qualifications to be a Program Manager then I recommend you take a look at the following position. If all of the
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:42 PM

Issues that won't be fixed in Team System- supposedly

Those that know me or even those that may casually read this blog know I am a supporter of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System. I make a living as a consultant that focus on the Microsoft stack and as a Team System MVP also spend a lot of my days consulting
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:13 PM

Woohoo- Joost

Woohoo just got the following from Joost. I'll fill you in after I try it. Hello Michael, The waiting's over! Since we received your application to join the Joost beta test program, we've been very busy fine-tuning it for you. So here's some good news:
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:30 AM

Love this post

Love this post ! Congrats, Eric
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:17 AM

Quick note to self- (will update to a full blog entry later)

System.IO.Packaging is in WidowsBase (just where you would expect) also unlike in the early betas- zipping an expanded docx will no longer work. But unzipping modifying file and copying into still zipped file while drilling into the appropriate place
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:49 PM

Google's great April Fool joke

I love this Google April Fool Joke: http://www.google.com/tisp/
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:29 AM

Canadian IT Professionals : [Videocast] My Favorite Office 2007 Trick

This truly cool. I had no idea. I have found most everything myself the hard way but wish I had known this earlier. Link to Canadian IT Professionals : [Videocast] My Favorite Office 2007 Trick
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