Brian Harry announced that Microsoft has just acquired TeamPlain and will begin the process of rolling the product into the Team Foundation Server (TFS) suite. Bravo! The absence of web-based access to TFS was a glaring oversight in the original release of TFS and this product grew up almost overnight to fill that gap. We have it […]
Read MoreI am surprised every year at the lack of turnout for our local Boise Code Camp. The local Windows Vista launch event drew 500 people in for the promise a free copy of Windows, but our day long Code Camp that covered all sorts of technologies drew under 300. Wow. I recently attended the local […]
Read MoreEach month am privileged to have an early breakfast with a group of very senior developer types, as the Boise Software Architecture Group. I enjoy the sincere dialog and earnest debate. ORM mapping seems to be a hot topic lately, along with measuring code quality, Agile methodologies, and VSTS. Few of us are exclusively developers anymore, sharing titles like Manager, […]
Read MoreThe Business Data Catalog (BDC) is a new subsystem within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). To the best of my understanding, the BDC wraps disparate data repositories from around your enterprise in a single, programmatically accessible object model. The functionality of the object model is apparently driven by meta data that describes the underlying repositories. The idea […]
Read MoreMr. Guthrie and Whom It May Concern, Thank you for your team’s contributions to the software development industry. ASP.Net, the CLR, and your other significant additions to the .Net platform have genuinely advanced the state of software development. Although it may seem that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t, most […]
Read MoreThere is something very odd about seeing my own job advertised for active recruitment. I have been Director of Core Engineering Services for Healthwise in Boise, Idaho, for several years now. I have recently been honored to accept a position as Chief Architect for Healthwise and I will assume those duties as soon as Healthwise finds […]
Read MoreI have made the mistake in the recent past of not following closely our local Microsoft sponsored .Net user’s group. I was lucky enough last Thursday to remember to attend the monthly gathering at our local Microsoft campus and I am glad I did! In addition to a nice tour of the new SQL Client […]
Read MoreI have been shamefully remiss in my pursuit of good reading material. I like to keep at least one good (quality) book of history or fiction at play as well as at least one good technical book. However, during times of personal stress I resort to pulp mystery fiction, trashy war novels, and other pointless crap. With […]
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