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ALM Rangers sim-ship guidance with the VS11 RC
Fri, Jun 1 2012 2:50
I am really proud to have been involved in the team of ALM Rangers who have SIM ultaneous- SHIP ped best practice guidance with Visual Studio 11 RC , which became available last night . I am sure anyone working with Visual Studio and TFS will find the guidance of value, I have certainly learned a lot whilst helping produce the material. It has been a great experience... Read More...
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Speaking on the 15th Feb at the NE Bytes user group on “TFS for Everyone”
Wed, Feb 8 2012 4:23
I will be speaking at the NE Bytes user group next Wednesday (the 15th of Feb) on ‘TFS for Everyone’. This a session based on the guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog  I did on how TFS is not just for .NET developers. It can be used from a whole range of development platforms and operating systems. I will be including demos using Eclipse and Ubuntu... Read More...
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Filtering in MDX Calculated Members
Sat, Feb 4 2012 4:28
BI development is not something I do that often, but from time to time you need to develop a custom report in TFS. I recently had to battle a MDX problem that someone who does more BI development I am sure why have had no issue with; but as with most of these blog posts (or my long term memory as I think of it) I thought it worth a post in case it helps anyone... Read More...
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Another ALM/TFS focused blogger at Black Marble
Mon, Sep 19 2011 3:36
Robert Hancock, another one of Black Marble’s ALM consultants, has started blog technical tips on this blog server. You can find Robert’s new blog here or the aggregate feed of all Black marble bloggers here Read More...
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Microsoft UK Techdays video’s available
Thu, Jun 23 2011 6:42
The videos from the various Microsoft UK Techdays events can now be viewed at the UK TechDays site . This includes my session on ‘Virtualisation of the Test Environment’ and the joint one I did with James Mann on the new experience for developing SharePoint solutions in VS2010 from the Leeds event. Read More...
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Speaking at Microsoft UK next week
Wed, Jun 22 2011 5:19
I will be speaking at Microsoft UK’s ‘Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors’ event next Monday. I am one of four speakers, between us well all address a variety of subjects within ALM Modern Software Delivery: The continuous delivery of high quality software - Colin Bird Driving Quality Throughout the Application Lifecycle - Richard... Read More...
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ALM Ranger’s Build Customization Guidance has shipped
Sun, Jun 19 2011 15:13
I am really please to say that the first ALM Rangers project I have been involved with, the Build Customization Guidance, has shipped. The project had the primary goal of delivering scenario based and hands-on lab guidance for the customization and deployment of Team Foundation Build 2010 activities such as versioning, code signing, and branching. You can find... Read More...
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Problems and workaround for the EMC Scrum for Team System Process Template
Wed, May 4 2011 11:19
I have recently been looking at the EMC Scrum for Team Systems (SFTS) 3 Template for TFS 2010 with SharePoint 2010. The core of it works, and works well for Scrum based teams. If you have not used it before have a read of the getting started post to get a feel of what it can do. However, there are some issues when you try to make use of SharePoint 2010 as opposed... Read More...
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Professional Foundation Server 2010
Wed, Apr 27 2011 9:15
Over the holiday I have been reading Professional Foundation Server 2010 by Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holiday and Brian Keller , yes I know how to have time off and have fun! So who is this book for? It is a comprehensive guide to TFS 2010, the components and their usage, but this does not mean the book is only for teams new to TFS or people planning... Read More...
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Doing a webcast for Microsoft next week ‘Lab Management and Automated Build’
Wed, Apr 6 2011 10:47
Next Tuesday lunchtime (12th Apr 2011 1pm) I will be doing a webcast on on ‘Lab Management and Automated Build’. I will be looking at the build options in TFS and also how they can be extended with Lab Management. The event is free to attend you just need to register at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-gb/visual-studio-events Read More...
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Speaking on VS 2010 ALM and Testing at events in Belfast and Dublin
Thu, Mar 10 2011 10:20
At the end of the month I will be speaking at a series of free Microsoft events in Belfast and Dublin. There going to be two session at each location Managing application lifecycle “From requirements to retirement” with Team Foundation Server 2010 Dublin - 31/03/2011 (AM): https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032480694&Culture=en-IE... Read More...
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Preparing for my session next week on ‘enabling agile development with cool tools’
Thu, Jan 20 2011 16:56
I have spent today preparing my presentation and demos for the Black Marble event next week Enabling Agile Development with Cool Tools . I will be presenting with Gary Short of DevExpress . He is going to be talking about refactoring under the intriguing title ‘How to Eat an Elephant’. My session will be on the tools to aid the project management side of the... Read More...
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ALM Rangers ship SCOM Management pack for TFS2010
Fri, Oct 15 2010 15:26
Want to monitor the health of your TFS system? Then wait no longer, the ALM Rangers have just shipped a SCOM Management pack for Visual Studio 2010. The management pack provides availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds.  So if you use any SKU of SCOM 2007 and TFS 2010 why not download it and have a look... Read More...
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Goodbye Team System hello Visual Studio ALM
Tue, Apr 13 2010 3:44
Now that VS2010 has launched the branding of ‘Team System’ has gone; so I am no longer a MVP (Team System) but a MVP (Visual Studio ALM). Read More...
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NEBytes last night
Thu, Mar 18 2010 3:24
Hope everyone enjoyed my session VS2010 at NEBytes last night. I don't now about you but I think that quick end to end demo of build, manual test and Intellitrace debug work very nicely. That was the first time I have done it as a single demo and I think it works better than three smaller ones. Truely shows the intergrated team store for VS2010 Anyway as... Read More...
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The Teamprise Eclipse plug in for TFS gets a new name
Mon, Mar 8 2010 3:22
As I am sure you remember a few months ago Microsoft bought Teamprise and their Java clients for TFS. Well the team has got out their first Microsoft branded release, details can be found on Martin Woodward’s and Brian Harry’s blogs. This beta provides the first support for TFS2010 This release is very timely as I will be talking on the Java integration via the... Read More...
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New UK ALM User Group Formed
Thu, Jan 14 2010 6:14
Stuart Preston has just started an new UK ALM User Group, to quotes its blurb… The UK ALM User Group is for practitioners of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in the UK to get together and discuss and share ideas tools and techniques, as well as to socialise somewhere other than Agile and Software Development conferences... Read More...
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