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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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Pedro Campos from the University of Madeira is conducing a very short survey. If you design applications and the user interactions then Pedro would be most pleased if you could spend 2-3 minutes on his short survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=71163179057
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There is good news and bad news with Somasegar's blog today ( http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/08/22/451026.aspx ) The bad news is that VSTS team foundation server is not going to be released on November 7th with the rest of Visual Studio
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I've had this question in many of the VSTS bootcamps I'm teaching across canada. “From my Application Diagram, how do I create a deployment diagram that shows my web application and database being deployed on the same box“. So I posed the
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I'm just heading back home from Vancouver tonight on a red eye. When I get home, I have time for a load of laundry or two and then I'm flying to Mexico. Not just for some R&R, but I've also arranged to speak at the Mayan Riviera .NET User Group. (MR.
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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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I'm getting a fair amount of questions about this topic lately so worth a blog entry. The best way to install any beta (or even more so CTP's) is to use Virtual PC. This will save you from having to reformat your entire machine a few times. I don't think
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Risk is bad. But it doesn't have to kill you if you acknowledge, plan for and manage it. The most important part of risk management is to avoid the evil consequences as soon as you can in your project. Having risks show up the day before a delivery date (or later) is really really bad.
Both the Rational Unified Process and the Microsoft Solution Framework do good jobs at addressing perhaps one of the most important project management practices. I recommend to clients to make risk management a
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