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Jeff Bramwell on Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5: Jeff provides a quick overview of what’s new in VS 2015 CTP 5. I’m especially interested in the new diagnostic tools. NorthWest Cadence on Configuration Management and Desired State Configuration: Bryon has a discussion around configuration drift and PowerShell DSC. For us  [ Read More ]

Wow.  Once again I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for my community contributions around Application Lifecycle Management.  For those who don’t know, it is not guaranteed that you will be renewed every year. Every year, you are revaluated with regards to your community contributions around Application Lifecycle  [ Read More ]

I’m participating in the “100 Days of DevOps with PowerShell” series over at System Center Central.  My first post went up today about getting started with PowerShell and Team Foundation Server 2013: The first thing you will notice is there are no out-of-the-box TFS cmdlets that ship with Team Foundation  [ Read More ]

Yesterday, Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 become available. You can find more information about it here: Visual Studio Engineering Team Blog Visual Studio “14” CTP Release Notes Brian Harry’s Blog To work with this CTP: Download The Bits Use a VM in Azure

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a set of videos, Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise, where the Developer Division talks about how they moved from a more waterfall process to a more agile process. I found the videos interesting and enlightening for a variety of reasons. Microsoft used to  [ Read More ]

Channel 9 Edge Show – DevOps Panel – Tech Ed North America 2014 During Tech Ed 2014 North America,I had the opportunity to be part of a panel of experts on the Channel 9 show Edge, talking about DevOps.  In the 32 minute conversation, we cover the following questions: [02:08]  [ Read More ]

So not much sleep on Sunday night, even though I was jetlagged.  I attribute that to nerves and anticipation. I must say the client here is taking very good care of us. They have a driver that picks us up every day from the hotel, as well as brings us  [ Read More ]

I’m on my world-wide adventure this week.  Work has taken me to Manila, Philippines for the next 7 days.  This trip marks the farthest I’ve traveled from home yet, as well as the longest transit time (30+ hours) of a trip that I’ve taken. My adventure started Friday morning, with  [ Read More ]

If you work heavily with Visual Studio 2013, and are a keyboard junky, then I have a great resource for you.  Check out the complete list of Visual Studio 2013 Keyboard Shortcuts.

I’m thrilled to have been selected to deliver a pre-conference session at TechEd 2014 in Houston.  My good friend Brian Randell and I will be talking about “From Code To Release: DevOps for Developers”. Click the link above to read the abstract. I’ve been lucky enough to speak at TechEd  [ Read More ]