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Saturday, May 12, 2007 9:39 AM

Are You Impressed With Cluttered Screens or Do You Need Lots of Windows to Be Productive?

I consult a fair amount with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, though not nearly as much as I would desire. DAMN YOU, MOSS . As part of that I try to keep up with what similar products do and don't do and how they do it, especially in the area of application
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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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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:37 AM

A Sample Four Day Team System Envisioning

I perform a lot of work with Team System often in some sizable companies. As such, I often do a envisioning, or POC phases with a client that can run from days to weeks depending on the nature of the client need. As an example of an agenda that might
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:06 PM

Team System Chat a surreal experience

It was a surreal experience in the Team System Chat that occurred today. What was surreal about it you ask? Well, that on the question asking side was Eric Lee . It was strange to see him as a participant asking questions of the experts versus being on
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:52 AM

Team System Chat Today

Don't forget to join the Team System Chat today, if you can. I have a meeting that will likely take me right up to the time it starts but hope I can make it myself. Join the chat on Wednesday, February 7th from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:37 AM

I couldn't agree more--- Martin and Keyword expansion

Martin Woodward posted a new entry on keyword expansion on his blog. This is the perfect example of where I should probably be blogging my comments I make to other people but often don't think about making those comments and request for feedback to the
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Friday, January 12, 2007 4:47 PM

Your longest running team project

*Note- I actually started this post November 1, 2006 and it has sat in my Draft folder for some time. I had a friend ping me about some screwed up work item fields in some projects and this reignited my need to push this post out. I spend a lot of time
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:39 AM

TeamSysPUG

Don't forget if you are in the Boston area on Thursday, Dec. 21st (that's two days away from when this was posted) and have an interest in Visual Studio Team System drop in for the first monthly meeting of the Team System Public User Group. You can find
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Monday, December 18, 2006 11:43 AM

Data Dude- "Dude..."

I finally got around to using Data Dude a.k.a Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. All I can say is DUDE! This product rocks. I have to say I am exceptionally excited about adding this tool to the arsenal of tools we use in our development.
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Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:18 PM

Twin Cities Code Camp

As I write this I am at 39,000 ft. returning from Minneapolis. Does this sound like a post from last week? It starts the same and has a number of elements in the middle that are similar and I guess ends somewhat the same as well. This week I flew out
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:54 PM

Can hardly wait to dig in...

I can hardly wait to dig into these things which I have long anticipated and greatly need... bravo WIT Custom Control support - This is a cool new feature. It is a mechanism by which people can design work item forms that host custom controls. The data
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:44 PM

TFS SP1 Beta...

All I can say is Yippee! Check any of your favorite MSFT Team System blogs, such as Brian Harry's blog , for the info no need for me to repeat more than I just did. http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:38 AM

Forthcoming posts...

A reminder for me as much as any thing else and in no particular order... Vista RC1, Acronis True Image, and Virtual Machines Why is my Virtual Server a dog (and it's on a real server)? ughhhhh... A kind of vacation BlogJet, Onfolio and my former life
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:15 PM

Recommendations in SCM Branching Patterns in TFS

With the transition from Visual Source Safe (VSS) to Team Foundation Server (TFS) the power of branching in source code control becomes much more readily available. The increased ease of branching and merging bring with it the need to consider patterns
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