Free Test-First Development Training - 24 hours only
8 Mar 2011 10:44pm GMT For anyone with teams or managers wondering about Test-First Development or TDD techniques, my friends at Pluralsight are giving a free course for the next 24-hours. TDD expert David Starr and Scott Allen will take you through the history, background and techniques. He also includes data in support of test-first practices in case you’re in a situation where you’re getting management pushback. Test-First Development, Part I by David Starr and Scott Allen Test-First...
Visual Studio and TFS 2010 SP1 Released
8 Mar 2011 6:38pm GMT This morning at Tech Ed Middle East, Soma announced the final version of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. Jason Zander followed that up with a blog post that outlines the release: As described with the SP1 Beta post, in this release we have addressed some of the most requested features from customers of Visual Studio 2010 like better help support, IntelliTrace support for 64bit and SharePoint, and included Silverlight 4 Tools in the box. We also added unit testing support on .NET 3.5 and...
Music Top 10 from 2010
5 Jan 2011 6:29pm GMT Rather than focus on only albums that came out in 2010, I’ve decided this year to focus on those that were consistently a part of my musical playlist. Most are new, but there is one standout from a few years back that I only discovered in 2010, so I included it anyway. As you can see, metal is still a dominant part of my musical day, but I also had a few other things get playtime this year that didn’t make the list like Girl Talk’s new mash-up album, some Phish bootlegs, the...
TechEd Europe 2010 Recordings and Downloads
1 Dec 2010 6:05pm GMT Just before Thanksgiving I was in Berlin, Germany for TechEd Europe 2010. Have I ever mentioned how much I love this conference? I think I need to move to northern Europe for a few years. Anyway, they recorded all the breakout sessions and I know some people have been asking for the content. Here are the talks I was involved in that have recordings: Agile Development with Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 This was a talk Aaron Bjork and I did together to show how a scrum team can use VS + TFS...
Cameron Skinner - XMI Export Sample
29 Nov 2010 7:16pm GMT Over the past couple of years demoing and presenting the VS2010 Architecture Tools and Extensibility features, one of the things that has often come up is a request for XMI Export. We added XMI Import in the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack, but the standard answer for XMI Export has been “roll it yourself, it isn’t that hard”. Well, as Cameron blogged this morning, Steve Cook created a sample to get you started on just that. Cameron’s blog explains it is...