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A few weeks ago I attended the Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality ( TASSQ ). It's refreshing to attend a user group outside of the MicroSphere. There was about a 100 attendees and I like the round table format over dinner with lots of
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In November, 2005, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2005, a major new release of its developer tools environment, and the foundation of Microsoft platform development for the next few years. In addition, this marked our entry into the lifecycle tools
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:19 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF, VSTS
Next week I'm travelling to Ottawa (Tuesday) and then Vancouver (Thursday) to do some boot camp training on Visual Studio Team System. This 1 day hands on, gives folks a chance to play with the new modelling and testing features. I'll also be demoing
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:17 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
On March 17th in Toronto, I'll be teaching our first delivery of this new course. It's a one day hands on, instructor led - whirlwind bootcamp style course that gives you a lap around Visual Studio Team System - specifically with a Solution Architect's
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Monday, February 28, 2005 11:07 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
VS Live is coming to Toronto again - April 13-16th. This year, the event will be right downtown on the lake at the Harbour Westin Castle hotel. Use Priority Code “BARRY” for a 10% discount when you register. You'll also save an additional $250 if you
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:52 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, TechEd, Home, Newsletter, MSF
Be a sport and click on this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499 Then make a generous bid. If you'll win, you'll get an hour (or more) of help from a .NET guru/celebrity (or possibly me). But more, you'll also be helping
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Friday, November 19, 2004 4:40 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Home, Newsletter, MSF
I just got back from Ottawa, where last night I was speaking to the Ottawa .NET community about Visual Studio Tools for Office. (more on that later). I wasn't surprised by the Grep Cup weekend inflated hotel rates, but I was surprised to find a “2.8%
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:53 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter, MSF
In case you missed it, in this article key microsoft executives are quoted as saying that Whidbey and Yukon are still slated to ship together but that won't be by end of June as earlier stated. They are now estimating that “summer” is a better statement
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Monday, November 08, 2004 10:58 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2003, Tips, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
What does project management, test management, defect tracking, build servers, methodology, automated testing, code coverage, and software diagramming have to do with Halo 2? I'm not sure really, but if you want both - then you need to come to the Toronto
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