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Visual Studio Live is Coming to Chicago
Normally you need to go to Florida or Vegas to attend a Microsoft Visual Studio conference however, you are in luck this year since they are bringing one to Chicago! It’s the first time in years since...
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Microsoft ALM Summit Wrapup
Between the Microsoft ALM Summit the last week of January and the Microsoft MVP Summit two weeks later, I am behind in doing some blogging so I am getting caught up this weekend. The ALM Summit in...
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Presenting at Chicago Code Camp on TFS 2012
On April 27th I’ll be presenting at the Chicago Code Camp on TFS 2012. I could talk all day on this subject so I am interested in what you might want to hear. Post a comment to let me know what you...
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Ranger Guidance Updates Released!
I’m in the Microsoft ALM VS Ranger’s and have been been lead on the TFS Disaster Avoidance and Recovery Planning project. This project was adding how to plan and react to a disaster to the existing TFS...
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March Chicago ALM User Group Meeting: Visual Studio and TFS 2012
You’ll be in for a double treat at the March Chicago ALM UG meeting as Angela Dugan and Edward Thomson will be presenting on new 2012 CTP features. Angela is the ALM Practice Manager for Polaris...
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Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 2 Released
Microsoft released Update 2 to Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 on Friday. Here are highlights from various blog posts on it: Developer Experience Code Map Debugger Integration and...
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Presenting @ the Chicago ALM User Group Meeting on Source Controlling Databases
On Wednesday April 24th I’ll be presenting on source controlling databases with Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012. You already use TFS for managing code, why not use it for database...
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Presenting @ Chicago Code Camp on Saturday April 27th
Chicago Code Camp is a yearly developer community event put on by the Lake County .NET User Group. This year I’ll be presenting on the new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features of Team...
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Links From This Week’s Presentations
I was happy to have the opportunity to speak to the Chicago ALM User Group Wednesday on source controlling databases and at the Chicago Code Camp on a variety of TFS 2012 topics. As promised, here are...
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Performance Settings for Team Foundation Server Migrations
I’ve been asked in the past for advice on Team Foundation Server (TFS) migrations. As an ALM Ranger I included a section in the upgrade guidance that covered what you should plan for. Items that need...
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Presenting on TFS 2013 @ Chicago ALM UG September Meeting
I’ll be presenting with Angela Dugan at the Chicago ALM User Group Meeting on Wednesday September 25th on the new features in TFS 2013! There are many cool enhancements over prior versions including:...
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Chicago ALM UG: Automating your .NET deployments with Octopus Deploy
May’s Chicago ALM User Group meeting is being led by Ian Paullin of Avanade. Ian will be reviewing how automated deployments using Octopus Deploy can benefit your application lifecycle. Octopus works...
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Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS Guidance Released
For the last few months I’ve been involved with the Microsoft ALM Rangers on the TFS on IaaS project. The guidance provides details on how to configure and test TFS on Azure Infrastructure. TFS on IaaS...
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Connect();
Microsoft will be holding a two day virtual event, Wednesday November 12th and Thursday November 13th, called Connect(); which covers Visual Studio vNext and Azure. In the first three hours on...
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VSLive: First Session of 2016
VSLive will be kicking off 2016 in style in Las Vegas! This year’s theme “Code we can believe in” and will be much more interesting than listening to our presidential candidates The session will have...
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DevOps Chicago Community Roadshow Event
If you are a DevOps person in the Chicagoland area you should sign up for our DevOps Chicago Community Roadshow Event that is being held on Friday April 15th. In full disclosure I am the keynote...
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Speaking @ a Few Events in 2016
I have some upcoming speaking engagements I’m pretty proud of: • DevOps Chicago Community Roadshow: I’ll be the keynote speaker kicking off the event for 100 or so techies who are passionate about...
View ArticleTop Stories From the VSTS Community
Looking through Willy’s post on the top VSTS stories on September 1st, here a couple that I found insightful: Colin Dembovsky’s End to End Walkthrough of Deploying With Team Build and Release...
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I’ll be presenting on real world usage of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) on Sunday November 5th @ the Chicago Software Development Community (SDC) monthly meeting. There’s no Bears game this Sunday...
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