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  • Got Scrum?

    I lot of customers I work with want or are using Scrum with VSTS. Many end up using the process template from Conchango . I recently had a problem however getting it installed for a customer. Their TFS installation is in the form on a single AT/DT server...
    Posted to Got Team? by brian-randell on 07-04-2008
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  • Naming the Baby

    I've been working on "Oslo" for quite a while now. Like "Oslo" itself, several of the major pieces of "Oslo" have placeholder code names that will be replaced with the actual names we'll brand the product with. This...
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 07-04-2008
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  • PDC Musings

    This year's PDC will be my eighth as a speaker and my third as an MSFT employee. The last two PDCs were more or less the same in terms of my involvement. This year, I'm also helping out on selecting roughly one-fourth of the talks being given...
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 07-03-2008
  • I have the power

    No, not time for He-Man , just time for a mobile hardware upgrade. I spend a good portion of my time working with virtual machines. And in doing so, I'm always looking for more power when I'm on the road. This week I was able to make three great...
    Posted to Got Team? by brian-randell on 07-03-2008
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  • A New Year Starts

    Yes, it is July 1, 2008. and while it's not the traditional New Year, for me it is for two reasons. First, Microsoft has decided I didn't cause too much trouble over the last 12 months so I get to continue being a VSTS MVP . Thanks! Second, Microsoft...
    Posted to Got Team? by brian-randell on 07-02-2008
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  • Pluralsight 2.0

    Here at Pluralsight we have been busy working on version 2.0 of our company, and are happy to announce that our new site launched last night - check it out here . We have upgraded our blog engine to Community Server (2008) - many thanks to Telligent for...
    Posted to Onion Blog by fritz-onion on 06-27-2008
  • MSDN Low-Bandwidth Rendering Option

    One of the common complaints with the MSDN website is the fact that the pages are pretty fat. The team has done a lot to make this better, but there's still some stuff in there that not everyone needs. If you're interested in an extremely skinny version...
    Posted to CraigBlog by craig-andera on 06-26-2008
  • Hobocopy x64 Build Available

    I finally got around to hacking together an x64 version of hobocopy , my little utility that copies files even if they are locked. Note that you might need to install the 64-bit C runtime (vcredist_x64) in order to get it to work. Both the updated binaries...
    Posted to CraigBlog by craig-andera on 06-25-2008
  • Exploiting Data Parallelism with OpenMP, MPI and Microsoft HPC Server 2008

    We're working with Microsoft to develop some tutorials for the HPC Server 2008 SDK. We just finished one of the tutorials, representing a classic HPC development scenario: “Exploiting Data Parallelism with OpenMP, MPI and Microsoft HPC Server 2008”...
    Posted to Academia.NET by joe-hummel on 06-19-2008
  • MJF and WHG on Oslo

    Mary Jo has nice coverage of David Chappell's Oslo talk at TechEd this week. Also nice was BillG talking about the project in his farewell address as an FTE. I'd love to hear from folks who saw the Chappell talk - I had to miss it when he was in Redmond...
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 06-06-2008
  • 10 is the new 6

    I'm in a PDC planning meeting with the VS folks. I just heard the mantra around the Visual C++ team is that “10 is the new 6.” msdev.exe was one of my favorite executables of all time. Wahoo!
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 06-06-2008
  • Velocity (the cache, not the templating engine)

    Congrats to the folks from Building 35 for getting the first CTP of Velocity out the door. Here's a nice page on getting started with velocity .
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 06-05-2008
  • First CTP of Managed Extension Framework (MEF)

    Congrats to Shanku's team for shipping the first CTP of MEF . We're using MEF daily and it's quite a useful bit of code.
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 06-04-2008
  • E4X and/or VB9 XML Users - How's it going?

    I've been spending a lot of time with XML again lately. Since my last stint with XML, I know we shipped native XML suppport in VB9. I also know that there are E4X implementations out in the wild. What I'd love to know is how either of these are working...
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 06-04-2008
  • PDC08

    It's PDC season again. The site went live this week - http://microsoftpdc.com/ It will be good to put bits in people's hands (or in our datacenters :-)).
    Posted to Don Box's Spoutlet by don-box on 06-01-2008
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