INTERVIEWS

Walking the Turtle: An In-Depth Look at Pyxis and ‘Urban Turtle’

Walking the Turtle: An In-Depth Look at Pyxis and ‘Urban Turtle’

Adam Cogan interviews Dominic Danis from Pyxis, a software consulting firm based in Montreal. Pyxis is a fascinating company. Based on a mantra of ‘it’s all about the people’, we see in this video how Dominic and his colleagues strive to always provide the best workplace conditions for their employees. It’s easy to see how…

Improved HTML5 Coding with Mark Michaelis

Improved HTML5 Coding with Mark Michaelis

Adam Cogan and Mark Michaelis discuss: Continuous Testing Compiling Programming languages JavaScript Q-Unit J-Query Testing with different UI’s Dependancy Graphs

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Industry Developments with Wes MacDonald

Adam Cogan Interviews Wes MacDonald about the latest industry developments including developments in:

  • SharePoint
  • VM
  • WareTFS
  • Build
  • Office 365
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Assessment Modules with Keith Brown

Adam Cogan interviews Keith Brown about:

  • WCF Fundamentals
  • User Interfaces
  • # Tags
  • Course Assessments
  • SQL Databases/Non-SQL Databases
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Advanced ASP.NET with Fritz Onion

Adam Cogan interviews Fritz Onion about:

  • Course Assessment Systems
  • ASP.NET
  • MVC 3
  • J-Query
  • Beta-Testing
  • Scheduling
Scrum at Microsoft: See the TFS Agile Team do a Scrum (aka Stand Up)

Scrum at Microsoft: See the TFS Agile Team do a Scrum (aka Stand Up)

In this video see a team at Microsoft (who are building the Agile project management tools used by millions of developers), perform their Daily Scrum. Commentary provided by Adam Cogan.

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Carl Franklin: Rocking out with .NET Rocks!

In 2002, Carl Franklin started something pretty special and known well throughout the .NET community of developers.

.NET Rocks, with its 1000’s (and 1000’s) of listeners around the world, provides very interesting and valuable information to anyone who is interested in software development.

Adam Cogan, who had previously appeared on the show, wanted to know more about the success behind .NET Rocks! and its founder, so he sat down with Carl to chat about everything .NET Rocks!

TFS Storyboarding tools in PowerPoint – Interview with Justin Marks

TFS Storyboarding tools in PowerPoint – Interview with Justin Marks

Adam Cogan caught up with Justin Marks to talk about the TFS Storyboarding Tool. In this interview they cover: Justin Marks’ history at Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 TFS PowerPoint as a platform for storyboarding Demo PowerPoint vs Balsamic and other storyboarding tools

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User Voice and Visual Studio 2012 with Doug Turnure of Microsoft

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.