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Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:18 PM

Building Natural Language Interaction for TFS Is No Easy Task

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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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:20 PM

Long Live The Command Line

The Ubiquity prototype. I like it. It inspires me for applying this concept more thoroughly with TeamPatter
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:05 PM

Just A Silly Commercial I Enjoy

Don't ask me why I just enjoy this VW Commercial .
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Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:04 AM

The Beauty of Code Coverage

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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Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:13 AM

BuilderBob, TeamPatter and the Natural Language Build Agent

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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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:40 AM

Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Released

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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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:25 AM

A Mock Data Context

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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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:02 AM

When To Punt On A Design

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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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:07 PM

Another new favorite in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Team Editions

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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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:00 PM

One of my fav new features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

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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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:00 AM

A Few Notable Things When Installing TFS 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

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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Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:52 AM

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers

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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Friday, August 01, 2008 9:59 AM

Note To Self: Research Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

Title says it all.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 8:24 AM

Easily Getting Builds Out Of The Global Build List in TFS

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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