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tfs 2010 RC Agile Process template update New Task progress report

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, March 12, 2010
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Maybe my next post will just be about why I am so excited and impressed with the out of the box templates.  But, for this first blog with my new focus, I thought I would just walk through the pro...

Blog Rebranding

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, March 12, 2010
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I have been spending more and more time on learning as much as I can on Agile Development and also have been fairly immersed in rolling out TFS 2010 in our environment.  I feel like it is time to...

Introducing Typemock Test Lint

ISerializable, March 7, 2010
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We just released a new, free product -  Typemock Test Lint, click here for all the gory details. Its a just-in-time unit testing coach that looks at your code as you type and looks for common un...

Computer Books to Read on a Lonely Island

Roland Weigelt, March 4, 2010
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I recently had the pleasure to visit this place: On an island of approx 300x200 meters, snorkeling, swimming, eating, sleeping and relaxing is pretty much all you do. And reading, lots of reading: ...

Heading to San Francisco for the ESDC Conference and the East Bay .NET User Group

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., February 27, 2010
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Tomorrow I am planning to do something that has caused my husband to laugh uncontrollably. Im going to get out of bed at 4am. Yes its true! That's because I have a 6:30am flight that will take me firs...

Successful Agile Seminar in Pune, India->Seminar Materials Download

the telerik blogs, February 26, 2010
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We had a great Agile seminar yesterday in Pune, India. You can download the seminar slides here. A special thanks to Telerik, the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture and the te...

Key Software Development Trends

Somasegars WebLog, February 23, 2010
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More than ever before, todays developers are open to considering and using multiple technologies to enable them to build solutions smoothly and deliver them to their customers quickly.  There are...

Why do teams succeed?

the telerik blogs, February 18, 2010
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The story of human achievement is almost always one of teamwork. While we celebrate individual accomplishments, like Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon, it is always the team that makes or brea...

Download the MSF-Agile+SDL Process Template for VSTS

MSDN: ASP.NET, February 13, 2010
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Embed security in your Agile Development project with the MSF-Agile+SDL Process Template. It's a TFS process template that integrates the policy, process, and tools of the Security Development Lifecyc...

Speaking at TechEd North America 2010

the telerik blogs, February 11, 2010
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Check out my pre-con at TechEd North America, Joel and I will be speaking on Agile. Register here. :) PRC07 The Agile Methodology Demystified: Implementing Agile in Your Organization Track: Develo...

Inbound Marketing and Small Business Trends

Steven Smith, February 4, 2010
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I recently read Dharmeshs and Brian Halligans Inbound Marketing book, which has a lot of good tips for startup companies to follow in order to maximize their online reach and popularity.  Many o...

High Attention, Low Distraction

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, February 4, 2010
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Truly paying attention can be one of the hardest things to do. Even when you are doing something you want to do, say solving an interesting problem, your mind flits about. In a five minute interval...

Half-day Agile Seminar Feb 24th in Pune, India

the telerik blogs, January 22, 2010
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I will be presenting a half day seminar on Agile Development, Tools and Teams on Wednesday February 24th at the MCCIA in Pune. The event is brought to you free by e-Zest, MCCIA, and Telerik. Seats ar...

DVCS (Distributed Version Control System): support for agile?

Jeffrey Palermo, January 18, 2010
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Glenn Block began an interesting thread on the public altnetseattle email list on Thursday: Hi guys I know we just finished a nice thread about GIT, whether it's hot and why. We also talk...

Agile in Action TDD Lessons Learned

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, January 16, 2010
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As I continue to explore agile techniques at work, I had the opportunity to do some Test Driven Development, specifically Test First Development. The problem at hand was that our system is composed of...

Is Extreme Programming Dying? Is Agile Growing in Popularity?

Steven Smith, January 12, 2010
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Its interesting to compare the interest over time in various software development methodologies and practices.  Google Trends is a great tool for this, although its not without limitations, espec...

Agile in Action - A Touch of Pair Programming

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, January 10, 2010
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As a consultant, I am pulled in two seemingly opposing directions in regards to new technology. To be a good consultant, particularly at my company Clarity, you have to be engaged with technology. Rea...

Video: Software Craftsmanship with Steve Smith

The ASPx Blog, December 14, 2009
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Check out this Steve Smith software craftsmanship video from PDC 2009. Steve is an MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and an ASP.NET Insider. In this video, Steve discusses how developers can improve...

Everybody stand-up! 7 resources for standup meetings.

Code Climber, December 9, 2009
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Standing up an hour or so after the day starts is one of the (first?) changes Im trying to introduce into the team Im working with now. Well, not just standing up around a water cooler, but also talki...

An Easier way to call Model Defined Functions in EF4

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., December 4, 2009
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Model-Defined Functions are one of the great new features of EF4. The only downside is that its a little kludgey to call them from LINQ to Entities. Jiri Cincura has a simple, but elegant workaround ...

Visual Studio Talk Show #109 is now online - Spcifications excutables (French)

Guy Barrettes WebLog, November 26, 2009
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http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com/ Pascal Laurin: Spcifications excutables Nous discutons avec Pascal Laurin de spcification excutable. Une spcification excutable est un ensemble de tests qui dc...

Slides and Demos from Recent Entity Framework 4 Presentations

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 23, 2009
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I have gathered up my slides and demos from Oredev and DevConnections and put them on the internet. The PPTs are on Slideshare. The demos are on the downloads page of my book’s website: www.lear...

Agile EF4 Repository: Part 3 -Fine Tuning the Repository

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 22, 2009
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Third post in my Agile EF4 Repository blog series: Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository In the previous po...

Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 1- Model and POCO Classes

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 19, 2009
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Im going to lay out this out in a few blog posts because its complex. As I am not a TDD developer, I wont be starting from the tests. Im doing this in a fashion which is logical to me. But that will m...

December Headspring workshop: Decoupling Layers using Inversion of Control

Jeffrey Palermo, November 18, 2009
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Microsoft is again hosting Headspring at their Austin office for a working entitled: Decoupling Layers using Inversion of Control.  Matt Hinze, a Microsoft MVP, will be facilitating the workshop....

Agile Entity Framework 4 talks at NotAtPDC Online today

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 18, 2009
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Not at PDC? Well, yeah PDC is having some sessions streamed, like keynotes etc, but for the rest of us, there’s www.notatpdc.com. Two days of live presentations on lots of great topics. Here&rsq...

Agile Platform 5.0 released

ASP.NET Announcements, November 17, 2009
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OutSystems, provider of the Agile Platform, today announced the immediate availability of the new Agile Platform 5.0. Based on customer requests and feedback, the addition of new business process tech...

BOF Session Tuesday at PDC

the telerik blogs, November 16, 2009
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How to start agile development in your team

ISerializable, November 16, 2009
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Got this in the mail: Hi Roy, From time to time I'm reading your blog, and I must say that I'm quite behind. I would like to start an Agile Process in our company, but to be honest I do not ...

Telerik @ TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin – Day 3

the telerik blogs, November 12, 2009
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Steve did great presentations today about Daily Scrum and Tools and Agile Teams. Since he is always coding in his presentations using the latest technologies and releases he made it to use VS2010 with...

Interviewing Sara J Chipps 11 Nov 2009 (tomorrow) at 7am

Dot Net Radio, November 12, 2009
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www.girldeveloper.com) tomorrow at 7am. We will be discussing all sorts of programmer goodness from making your personal projects a reality (such as Saras http://bundl.it project), agile development...

Oredev Wrap-Up

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., November 8, 2009
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The hard part about going from one conference to the next is the lack of closure. Not that Oredev was bad and I need closure, but I would like to process it a little bit. This was my third conference...

Introducing Typemock IntelliTest

ISerializable, October 18, 2009
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We just released the latest version (5.4.2) of Typemock Isolator, with one cool Addon built in - Typemock Intellitest. whats it about? in one word: productivity. Here's what it does: (here's th...

The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyones Ignoring)

JonGalloway.ToString(), October 15, 2009
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Lets take an honest look at what passes for developer/designer workflow these days: Why are we okay with this? Sure, designers are fond using the programs theyve used for years, and developers are...

Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus

peterkellner.net, October 15, 2009
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  Several years ago, I was invited to a special showing of what was going to be the new SqlServer 2008 database in San Francisco.  I had expected a sales demo but was hugely surprised by......

Software Externalities

youve been HAACKED, October 13, 2009
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If youre a manufacturing plant, one way to maximize profit is to keep costs as low as possible. One way to do that is to cut corners. Go ahead and dump that toxic waste into the river and pollute the ...

The myth that TDD or test-first slows you down is true

eXtensible mind, October 4, 2009
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I'm sad to say it, but it is true. It slows you down. But not everytime, and not for everything. So let's be more specific on the cases where it DOES slow you down noticeably: Cowboy or Duct Tape Pr...

Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests

eXtensible mind, October 1, 2009
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Over the years I've come to realize that the one-fixture-per-class approach to unit testing just doesn't scale. As the amount of variations in state and interactions increases, that file starts becomi...

Poll: Which mocking\isolation framework do you use?

ISerializable, September 30, 2009
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Time for the bi-annual frameworks poll! Which isolation framework do you mostly use these days?(online surveys) ...

Are you smart enough to do without TDD

eXtensible mind, September 30, 2009
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Ayende wrote a controversial post titled I'm so smart I don't need TDD Even tests has got to justify themselves ;-). It's important to read it, because it reinforces many of the reasons why ""regula...

Successive Method Calls With MoQ

youve been HAACKED, September 30, 2009
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One area where using MoQ is confusing is when mocking successive calls to the same method of an object. For example, I was writing some tests for legacy code where I needed to fake out multiple calls...

OutSystems releases free version of Agile Platform

ASP.NET Announcements, September 19, 2009
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  OutSystems recently announced the availability of the free Agile Platform Community Edition which provides developers an easy way to create web business applications and explore Agile technique...

Announcing the Team Leadership Google Group

ISerializable, September 16, 2009
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I believe the next wave of issues that we will need to start solving is that of software team leadership. We may all believe in the stuff that agile, tdd and the like bring to the company, but ...

Agile Dinner, Sept 17, Austin, TX

Jeffrey Palermo, September 15, 2009
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I hereby declare a agile/geek/programmer/software dinner/supper on Thursday, Sept 17 at Mangia pizza from 6pm-8pm.  The menu is pizza.  The topics are agile and software engineering. (map) ...

Do you manage your software development through TFS? Telerik just released couple of free TFS tools for you

the telerik blogs, September 14, 2009
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Shortly after the massive excitement Teleriks Extensions for ASP.NET MVC created, the guys at Telerik are happy to share couple of new free tools with the developer community! Inspired by agile develo...

Telerik released two FREE TFS Tools - TFS Work Item Manager & TFS Project Dashboard

Misfit Geek, September 10, 2009
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More and more teams are distributed and agile ! Telerik has entered  the Microsoft TFS space with two FREE tools. Inspired by agile development methodologies, these two free applications ha...

AgileATX lunch today at 11:30 / Central Market Cafe

Jeffrey Palermo, September 3, 2009
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I have been crazy busy lately, and I have missed quite a few of these lunches.  AgileATX is a great venue to discuss agile software engineering with other developers. If you arent familiar with ...

TDD Master Class Day # 3 What I learned today

ISerializable, August 26, 2009
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Todays edition had two questions: what was really hard to accomplish today, and what did you learn? Good: The different isolation frameworks Swapping all instances of a type How the Isolate.Ignore...

TDD Course Day 2 What I Learned Today

ISerializable, August 25, 2009
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Heres what people at my course in Norway had to say at the end of the day to the question Tell me one thing you got today : Lambda expressions (many of the isolation frameworks require heavy use o...

11 books for a .NET Summer reading list

Code Climber, August 17, 2009
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Now that my book is on shelves, Im out of things to do when I come back from work. Furthermore during this year I bought or I was given quite a few interesting programming book, so I think Ill start u...

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