I'm frequently asked pricing questions for Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management products. As always, my response is check with your Microsoft sales representative for your specific case. Here's the suggested retail pricing. If you...
The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp will be January 31 and 31 at Cal State University Fullerton. Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups...
Microsoft wants to be sure they get it right with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET4. Feedback they've received from Beta 2 is being listened to and acted upon. In general, the new features are great but work is needed on performance. To that end, the release...
I'm a month late following up on PDC but it was a real success in my opinion. I had a great time starting off with Monday's pre-conference hosting an MVP table at the lunch break to discuss the new Visual Studio configurations and deeper integration...
This was a busy week for new stuff Microsoft. Wednesday Oct 21 was the official release day for Windows 7. It also was the first day of public availability for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 from MDSN downloads. You can download Beta 2...
The LA Code will be November 21 and 22, the weekend right after PDC 09 at the USC campus. Several teams from Microsoft including Team System, Languages (C# and VB.NET) and ASP.NET plan to be presenting sessions. I’m to entice some from the Windows...
INETA is again organizing the Birds of a Feather (BOF) discussions at PDC. BOF sessions are a bit different from the normal formal presentations. They are discussions on topics originated by and facilitated by volunteers. They are a great way to get involved...
On November 17, Microsoft will be officially releasing Windows Azure. Now is the time to get up to speed on cloud computing and Windows Azure. A lot of industries and organizations are moving toward the cloud. For the September 17 SoCal .NET Architecture...
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale...
Last night at the SoCal .NET Architecture meeting I presented a look Windows Workflow Foundation (WF 3.5) as we have it today with a specific look at working with Windows Communication Foundation Services. I discussed ways you can harness the power of...
The July 28 th meeting of SoCal Team System featured my presentation of “A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010.” Here is the download for my presentation . We had a great turnout with lots of discussion. We were able to cover TFS administration...
Last night, Patrick Neeman and I did a tag-team presentation on Scrum and User Experience at the LA Scrum Club . The turnout was good and most importantly helped make the presentation an engaging conversation. The presentation ended shortly after 9 but...
Here are the links for the slide decks from my Team System presentations at the San Diego code camp on June 27: · A Lap Around VSTS 2010 · Maximizing Your Investment with VSTS 2008 The “Lap Around VSTS 2010” turned out to be...
On June 23 rd , we kicked off the inaugural meeting of SoCal Team System . After some opening comments from William Salazar, Microsoft Developer Technology Specialist, we had a great presentation from Richard Hundhausen on Microsoft Visual Studio Team...
The SoCal Team System User Group will be launching on June 23. We'll be meeting in Irvine at QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100. Pizza and networking starts at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00. If you are in the Southern...