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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:05 AM

Innovate

It's the New Year. Though I don't typically create formal new year resolutions I do generally try to have a theme in mind. Last years was more time with the family. That had mixed success. I left consulting to spend more time at home and spent a tremendous
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:55 AM

Silverlight 2 and My clientaccesspolicy.xml Issue

Currently a team member and myself are working on a small Silverlight app that deals with work items in TFS and associating some cost accounting values related to capitalization to these work items. We were going to be done last week with the first pass
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 6:12 AM

What's Missing In Your Day To Day Professional Routine?

I think I have realized what is missing from my day to day professional routine. I'm not innovating, enough. That's it in a nutshell. I don't mean from a technical standpoint but from a business standpoint. I'm not close enough to the day to day business
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Saturday, December 13, 2008 1:29 PM

The value of properly granular team projects and code promotion by label

This post is entirely from my mobile phone so please excuse typos and formatting etc. I'm pleased with some recent changes in the primary TFS team project that I run for my scrum team and thought I would share. This was the first sprint in which we had
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Monday, December 01, 2008 9:44 PM

Moving to OCS

As I have played with the Windows Live Agent (WLA) it has seemed that it had a limited shelf life with Microsoft. With Office Communication Server R2 coming down the line in Q1 '09 with it's support of IM bots I figured the handwriting was on the wall
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Monday, December 01, 2008 8:36 AM

Updates To Team Patter - On Primitive Conversation Thread and Controlling Builds With Natural Language

I have just pushed out a few more changes to the Builder Bob of TeamPatter[ 1 ][ 2 ]. It won't be long and I'll be able to push this out to CodePlex for share. It occurred to me that I had not widely shared the Live Agent name. You can add it to your
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:39 PM

Requested: A Simple Time Entry Control For TFS That Some Organizations Have Used

Where I show a very simple time entry control implementation for TFS and discuss the sad lack of wider ISV partner products for TFS. The topic of time keeping in relation to Team Foundation Server (TFS) work items is always popular or infamous depending
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:13 AM

Finally Pushing Out TeamPatter

I'm finally pushing out the first TeamPatter samples. Look for a follow up post with the agents LiveId. Weeks overdue but I had some infrastructure issues I had to resolve on my host and it just took me a while to get around to it. :-( You'll be communicating
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Monday, November 03, 2008 4:34 PM

If You Get A SQL Server 2005 SPID Blocked By A SPID of -2

If you get a SQL Server 2005 SPID that is being blocked until it times out and the blocking SPID is -2 you'll want to look at the following KB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954669 . In my case there is an orphaned DTC unit of work. I can find the
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:54 AM

MicrosoftVSTS On Twitter With Updates From The PDC

If you are a twitter person like me and also a Microsoft VSTS junky you may wish to start following MicrosoftVSTS on twitter or send out the command 'follow MicrosoftVSTS' from your client. Hmmm... wonder if they are also posting to a Facebook location.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:39 PM

WCF and ClientCredentialType of UserName- Don't Forget the bindingConfiguration attribute

I thought I'd share a silly little hiccup and easy oversight I encountered in developing a guidance project against WCF. I am doing some work this weekend with building out a pattern and standard for some WCF authentication protocols for the organization
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:16 PM

Scrum Burndown, Remaining Effort and the Fibonacci Sequence

I'm a scrum practitioner and a Certified Scrum Master (I may soon decide to get my probably worthless but yet rewarding title of Certified Scrum Practitioner). I recently added some custom rules to Team Foundation Server work items related to the remaining
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 2:49 PM

TeamPatter Sneak Peek Later This Week

If all goes well this week I'll push out a sneak peek at where I am at on TeamPatter. I'll provide a Windows Live ID and some suggestions on what you can do to experiment with it. Granted, what you can do will be very limited but it will be an nicely
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:44 AM

Where Do You Want To Be In 5 Years?

I was talking with a valued and well respected friend the other day- is there any other type of friend? - about where we each wanted to be in 5 or 10 years. Oddly, for the first time in my life I really don't know. I hadn't realized it until I thought
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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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