Visual Studio customers have been asking for richer tagging features inside the IDE for a long time. TFS and VSO have allowed tagging of work items for well over a year, but the only way to really work with the tags has been through the web interfaces. The teams that build features in Visual Studio […]
Read MoreI regret not having blogged in several months and am determined to get back on that wagon. Let?s start simply, with a goofy little holiday project. This is what happens when my boss puts me on ?you?ve been working too much? leave. I do dumb things in the garage. I despise an untidy mess and […]
Read MoreI am thrilled to announce that I have accepted the opportunity to join Scrum.org, effective early May, as Chief Operating Officer. I am grateful for the time I’ve spent at Microsoft in DevDiv, and for the chance to be a small part of shipping Visual Studio and TFS to so many developers who use those […]
Read MoreThe other day I set out to create an iOS UICollectionView that allowed a user to scroll vertically through an infinite-ish list of items where the data came from a paginated back-end web service. Most of the examples out there deal with synchronous in-memory. I needed an asynchronous paginated example. I’m new enough to iOS […]
Read MoreA standard task I began placing in my projects lately is one that easily integrates with my build tool of choice (rake, psake, etc…) and when run, installs a git pre-commit hook into my local copy of the repo that will run tests before code is committ. I’ve fancied calling the task putOnAHelmet. Come checkout […]
Read MoreClearly and concisely articulating oneself through writing can open professional opportunities you never even knew existed. That clarity and conciseness really only comes with practice, but we can all use some great tips to get us started. This quick-tips writing poster came through my email recently and I tracked down it?s creators, Kylie Hansen and […]
Read MoreOur team is thinking a lot about work boards right now. By work boards, I mean those information radiators in your hallways and team rooms you use to visualize your work. Work boards could be anything from a formal Scrum Sprint Backlog to a Kanban board to a simple to-do list. Most of them are […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and I’ve been doing this for quite some time now. I created this list of online talks that I really enjoyed watching. I’ll also be updating […]
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