User Voice and Visual Studio 2012 with Doug Turnure of Microsoft

By sophie | 17/02/2012 |

Adam Cogan interviews Doug Turnure, the man in charge of all user feedback involving TFS and Visual Studio over at Microsoft. They cover:

  • Doug’s history at Microsoft
  • How Doug manages and orginazes the feedback using User Voice
  • Furture versions of User Voice
  • Indepth look at how Doug uses User Voice to monitor feedback
  • Top feedback suggestion submitted by users

Doug lead’s the feedback and early adoption strategy for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. This includes both strategic planning and driving process improvements, which can get fairly complex for a distributed team of more than 1000 people.
His specific areas include pre-release technology adoption by enterprise customers, Improved listening systems for better conversations with customers, and end-to-end process improvement for handling customer feedback.

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RedGate SQL Compare Demo with Adam Stephensen

By sophie | 17/01/2012 |

Adam Stephensen discusses: The ins and outs of RedGate SQL Compare and how to use it effectively. If you need a hand generating your change scripts, watch this video to see how Redgate SQL Compare allows you to analyse two databases, determine the differences and then easily script the changes.

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How To Improve Your SQL Server Database with Daniel Hyles and Mehmet Ozdemir

By sophie | 18/12/2011 |

A chance to watch SSW’s latest Webinar broadcasted live on the 6th of October

Are your users starting a report and going for a coffee or a smoke while they wait? Are your users constantly complaining about timeouts when using your application?

If you find yourself with a sluggish database, stop pulling your hair out! In this webinar SSW will show you the top 8 methods we use to reduce the time it takes to run queries from minutes or hours to seconds.

This webinar will provide the viewer with:

1. Top 8 ways to improve the performance of your SQL Server Database
2. How to prevent performance issues from occurring
3. How to resolve these issues after it goes into production
4. How write code that ensures your SQL server remains healthy
5. Steps an administrator can take to return your SQL server to optimal health

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SQL Deploy Demo with Adam Stephensen

By sophie | 01/12/2011 |

SSW’s Adam Stephensen demonstrates the features of SSW SQL Deploy

Adam Stephensen is a senior developer at SSW with a decade of experience performing needs analysis, designing and building scalable, database-driven, distributed enterprise solutions incorporating web and windows interfaces.

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BUILD 2011 – An Interview with TFS Legend Brian Harry

By sophie | 21/11/2011 |

Adam Cogan is joined by Brian Harry of TFS fame. In this exclusive interview, they discuss:

• How Brian Harry manages his team and his lifestyle
• VSS vs TFS
• The success and scale of TFS
• TFS as a service
• Testing
• Screenshots for bug reporting in TFS 2011
• Customer interaction in bug reporting and how TFS will solve the various issues in the future
• Backgroung on how storyboarding was introduced into PowerPoint and a usability study (vs Balsamic)
• The importance of connecting to customers
• Adam’s farming ability

Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server – a server-based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability, and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time.

Outside of work, Harry’s primary passions are family, wood working and farming. Harry has a substantial wood working shop and builds all sorts of wooden objects with a strong emphasis on the lathe. Harry is also very active with his children, serving as a leader in his sons’ Cub Scout troop.

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