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SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp San Diego
Coming up Saturday and Sunday June 26 and 27 is the SoCal Code Camp at UCSD in San Diego. Look forward to two full action packed days and don’t forget the geek dinner on Saturday evening. I’ll be doing three sessions: 1. Scrum Fundamentals...
Professional Scrum Developer Training – June 21-25
I will be presenting Accentient’s Professional Scrum Developer course June 21-25 at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA. In cooperation with Microsoft, Ken Schwaber , and Scrum.org , and other industry subject matter experts, Accentient...
The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010
The Ultimate Event: Visual Studio 2010 & Team Foundation Server 2010 This event would be of interest to all that want to learn more about Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management. I will be presenting at the San Diego and Los Angeles events...
Visual Studio 2010 ALM Pricing
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...
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp, January 30 and 31, Cal State Fullerton
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...
Visual Studio 2010 Release Pushed Back
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...
PDC Birds of a Feather Follow-up
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...
Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Team Development for All
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...
A Lap Around VSTS 2010 at SoCal Team System
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...
Scrum and User Experience Presentation, LA Scrum Club
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...
Team System presentations from Rock & Roll Code Camp
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...
Announcing the launch of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group!
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...
VSTS Web-Cast on SearchWinDevelopment.com
On May 20 th , Richard Hundhausen and I had the pleasure of recording a couple of web casts on Visual Studio Team System. My session focused on why VSTS is a good investment in today’s challenged economy and Rich focused on developing with VSTS...
SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp June 27 and 28, University of California San Diego
San Diego Code Camp is again coming up June 27 – 28 at US San Diego Extension. Always a great get-together, it again includes a Saturday evening dinner and rock-n-roll entertainment. As of today, there are 67 sessions registered. Check it out at...
VSTS Big Event Wrap-up
The Irvine Team System Big Event went off successfully April 30. A big thanks to all who attended. I really enjoyed the opportunity to deliver “It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Development & Testing” and “Architecture...
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