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An occasional journey through one man's perspectives as he fumbles along in the footsteps of many great men.

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The first time
Thursday, after the main IndyNDA event, I performed my first public presentation. I've presented to teams, classrooms, and my company before, but this is the first time I've had the opportunity to present to an uncontrolled group of my professional peers. Read More...

Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:15 PM by willeke | 0 Comments


Attachment(s): Rich Branch Management.ppt

TFS Sql script - list policy overrides
I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Policy Override Queries
Run them directly against the TfsVersionControl database, I don't see this data in the cube anywhere. Don't forget in SSMS you can copy from the output grid directly into excel with no problems. ' Summary : select id.DisplayName as Account, COUNT( id.DisplayName Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:41 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

First Sprint Wrap-up meeting
Had my first ever sprint wrap-up meeting. I knew it wouldn't be too bad, but I've been wanting to get some sort of recycle on project phases for a couple different positions now, and was glad to see how one was run, especially since I'm in the middle Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:04 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

Thanks SEP!
SEP , my previous employer, has graciously released their Code Review Support Tool to the community under the New BSD license. It's currently up at CodePlex and is a fully functioning (version 3-5!) release. Matt and I are currently gathering ideas about Read More...

Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 8:41 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Back to Vault
I'm back to Vault (and DevTrack) at my new job... it's not so bad, even though I do love the many integration possibilities that Team Foundation offers between the different components. That said, since I've had a lot of experience with Vault in the past, Read More...

Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 9:02 AM by willeke | 0 Comments

Too soon! Too soon!
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/06/work-item-tracking-enhancements-in-the-aug-rosario-ctp.aspx This is pure torture... TFS 2008's still only in beta 2, and he's already tormenting me with the things that the NEXT version will have, but I Read More...

Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 9:37 AM by willeke | 0 Comments