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Effective Branching and Merging in TFS 2010

Many people still struggle with effective branching and merging in TFS; either in understanding the concepts or applying them. I have attempted to address this through a demo using TFS 2010 and Microsoft’s TFS Guidance from the Patterns & Practices and “ALM Rangers” teams.

Microsoft also released the ability to customize the TFS process template guidance [...]


Microsoft’s “Dynamic IT” 7-year anniversary at Tech·Ed!

MS Tech·Ed North Ameria has been running this week in New Orleans…

Watch the Tech·Ed videos online - The keynotes (1 and 2) have great insight into Microsoft’s vision; how their 7-year old promise of “Dynamic IT” is just beginning to be realized this past year and even more so with their Azure cloud computing platform, System Center 2010, and [...]


Next Week is Internet Week!

From June 7–14, stay on top of the latest in internet technologies at Internet Week in New York. Events cover everything from Advertising, Arts & Entertainment, Conferences & Panels, Parties, Social Media, and Startups & Technology.
I am personally looking forward to the release of Microsoft Expression Studio v4 on Monday. Expression Blend is [...]


Google Chrome v5: Mac and Linux Support!

How a product goes from first release in September 2008 supporting Microsoft Windows to version 5 supporting Mac, Linux, and Windows in a little more than one year tastes like marketing to me. Not the release, but the version number.
Regardless, Google shipped its first stable version of Chrome to support Mac and Linux. New features like support for browser settings [...]


RFC: What to do with Telerik Premium?

I won the $1,299 Telerik Premium package at the AzGroups AZ.net 7th Annual Scott Guthrie Day of .NET on Monday. Admittedly I was excited to see the red shirt, but was more keen on seeing Scott Hanselman whom I have listened to on his HanselMinutes podcast for a number of years.
Any ideas of what to build?!
The Telerik toolkit includes [...]


Silverlight 4, MVC 2, and Windows Phone 7

NEW Release: Developer tools for Silverlight 4 RC along with training, MVC 2 RTM, and Windows Phone 7 CTP have been released. I noticed the Training Kit for Visual Studio 2010 was also updated last month.


W3C stops work on XHTML 2 - SD Times: Software Development News

News is supposed to travel fast on the internet, but I just heard yesterday (from an October podcast) on HanselMinutes.com that the W3C is shifting their focus from XHTML2 to HTML5! The fact that market shifts still influence standards is important and positive in my opinion. Read the news posting from SD Times for more: W3C stops work on XHTML 2 - [...]