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3 Mar

2007

BizTalk XSLT Schema Mapper

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development:

I have taken to watching Channel 9 videos instead of TV. There is really great content out there. The latest video I watched concerns the the BizTalk Schema Mapper. It is effectively a visual editor that comes with MS BizTalk used to processes incoming documents and convert them to new XSD comparability formats. This automated schema matching processor actually […]

2 Mar

2007

MS Vista + Office 2007 Bastard Processes

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Reviews:

Isn’t it time we stopped seeing this condition? This is a snap of my Task Manager applet in Windows Vista showing the multiple dead instances of MS Outlook 2007 running in abandoned processes. Think that one is funny? Look a few items down at the 2 instances of sidebar.exe running. Good grief, can’t the people […]

2 Mar

2007

Channel 9 Brian Harry Interview

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Management, Microsoft, Software Development, Tools and Utilities:

Brian Harry was recently interviewed about his career and the evolution of Team System. Mr. Harry is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, an original developer of Visual Source Safe, and currently leads the development team that creates Team System. His popular blog is a favorite of mine and is full of great advice for anyone using VSTS. Although […]

22 Feb

2007

Asperger Syndrome : Curse or Super Power?

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Meat Space Skills, Personal:5 Comments

I have not openly discussed this on my blog, but it is not a secret to those people ho know me that I have been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. In fact, at least 2 of my sons have also been diagnosed with this condition. Wikipedia explains Asperger syndrome this way: Asperger syndrome â€” also referred to […]

18 Feb

2007

My First Microsoft Vista Sidebar Gadget

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Software Development, Tools and Utilities:1 Comment

Windows Vista provides a system for running mini-programs on your desktop called Microsoft Gadgets. Those of you running Vista have already seen them and no doubt installed a few of the simple web search gadgets like Google’s, or Wikipedia’s, or Yahoo’s. I was looking for something semi-useful to do as a first gadget and decided […]

15 Feb

2007

Brian Harry on Managing Software Quality

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile, Microsoft, Software Development:

Team Foundation Server Product Unit Manager Brian Harry has written a stellar series of articles on his blog about managing quality with Visual Studio Team System. The collection makes for a good 20 minutes of reading if you are really trying to digest it, but the content is well worth it. Managing Quality (part 1) […]

14 Feb

2007

Finish What’s on Your Plate

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile, Management, Meat Space Skills, Software Development:

A recent incident experienced by one of our SCRUM teams provided a great learning experience for me. I watched a SCRUM team consisting primarily of developers and testers work with IT to ensure that their new web application got rolled to the customer on time. The software was rolled to a test server and IT was […]

12 Feb

2007