The inaugural Australian ALM Conference is due to kick off in a little over 4 weeks and there is a great group of local and international speakers lined up to present at the event. Over the next few weeks you can read an interview with a different presenter each day. Find out what they are talking about...
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Last weekend had some of the most glorious winter days I have ever seen in Seattle and rather than enjoy myself outside looking around, I chose to spend it with Ken Schwaber. Ken is a very well-known industry figure and one of the founders of Scrum. He has recently founded Scrum.org to allow him to further...
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I just found out that there is an airport with the code TFS. Cool! So in my own nerdy sort of way I think it would be fun to have a boarding pass with a destination shown as TFS. So let’s find out where exactly that is… Oh dear....
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If you’re heading along to TechEd Australia next week as an attendee, you’ll be getting a great new HP Netbook computer as part of your ticket. Enhance ALM in conjunction with Wardy IT Solutions and Portal Synergy will be exhibiting in the Exhibitors hall on Tuesday evening during the welcome reception...
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Now that my demonstration laptop has been rebuilt using the Windows 7 Release Candidate, I need to get my standard virtual machines up and running for a demonstration tomorrow. After a bit of pondering I decided to give Windows Virtual PC a go instead of Virtual PC 2007. In case anyone is interested...
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Today I was working with a client that wanted to install the recently released SQL 2008 Service Pack 1 on their TFS Server. They were eager to know if the SQL Service Pack would be compatible with TFS 2008 SP1. The good news is that you can install SQL 2008 SP1 onto your TFS server if you happen to have...
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The Tech SummerFest roadshow was held in Brisbane this week and as part of the Technology Showcase event on Monday we had a full copy of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with 12mth MSDN Premium Subscription to giveaway to one lucky attendee. Congratulations to Marinos who was the very happy winner of this...
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I woke up this morning to an email from Microsoft informing me that I have been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP for 2009. Wahoo! I am honoured to be once again included in a great bunch of Team System MVPs, most of whom I will get to catch up with at the upcoming MVP Summit in early March....
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As anyone that reads my blog will know, it has been neglected even more than usual over the past couple of months. I thought I'd share with you some of the things I've been up to during that time. Note: This is a bit of a long post. Tech SummerFest While sitting at the table early one morning in a Bed...
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The recent Tech Summerfest roadshow in Hobart and Adelaide was a great success and it allowed me to meet with some very enthusiastic Visual Studio developers. Thanks to the generous support of the VSTS product group in Redmond, I had three copies of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite to giveaway...
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