Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Brian Noyes [Part 2] – Prism 2, WPF vs Silverlight
Brian Noyes discusses: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (aka. Prism 2) Composite Application Guidance Overview Application Architecture CAL Features Patterns
Read MoreBUILD 2011 – An Interview with TFS Legend Brian Harry
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.
Read MoreUser 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.
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
Read MoreScrum 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.
Read MoreWindows Azure – Moving Your Apps to the Cloud with Andrew Coates
Our latest Webinar is hosted by SSW’s Eric Phan, who is joined by Andrew Coates (Developer Evangelist at Microsoft) to talk all things Cloud and Azure. Being a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, Andrew is able to talk in great detail about the benefits of moving your apps to the cloud are and why Windows Azure…
Read MoreGreat new features in SharePoint 2013 – Replication, gamification + more with Michael Doyle
Adam Cogan sat down with Michael Doyle – SharePoint Architect at Waggener Edstrom (Microsft’s PR company) – to talk about SharePoint 2013. Michael talks about SharePoint 2010 and 2013 replication: How it works well when it is just a simple list with records and videos synchronizing between India and the USA. How he makes the…
Read MoreVisual Studio 2012 with Jamie Cool
Adam Cogan interviews Jamie Cool from Microsoft about the new Visual Studio 2012 Jamie showed Adam the new Visual Studio 2012 and what a fantastic insight into the early Beta it was. Jamie demoed only the best features. In this interview, we cover: The philosophy behind the new design to the new Team Explorer The…
Read More100th SSW TV Release: The Future of Microsoft with Microsoft Regional Director Patrick Hynds
Patrick was the 1st guest on DotNetRocks, the 1st guest on RunAsRadio now becomes the 100th guest on SSW TV. Adam Cogan interviews Microsoft Regional Director Patrick Hynds on what he thinks is the future of Microsoft technologies. In this video, they look at: The Surface Silverlight as a contingency platform How to approach security…
Read MoreBrian Keller at Build – Best features of Visual Studio 2012, ALM, TFS and thoughts on his famous VM
Adam Cogan interviews Brian Keller, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, at the Build conference. In this interview, Adam and Brian discuss what he is happy with in TFS ALM and what he would improve. They also cover the oft-asked question of document control in TFS2012 and Brian’s famous VM – used by many developers around the…
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