Enabling Continuous Value Delivery in TFS 2012 with Justin Marks

By sophie | 10/08/2012 |

Book Adam Now 8 minutes. (Short Version or scroll down to see the Long Version) Adam Cogan sits down with Visual Studio Program Manager Justin Marks to discuss: The concept of Continuous Value Delivery Testing Defining the Project – Value Definition and Ideation (a new American word something to do with Ideas and Creation) Delivering…

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Why C++ is Better Than C# with Kate Gregory

By sophie | 26/06/2012 |

Kate Gregory explains in language that a C# guy can understand, what is cool about C++ She then explains: Templates vs Generics Libraries C++ AMP C# Bottlenecks/Pitfalls Unit Testing – Testing code with code Bad Habits with Clients Visual Studio Writing for iPhones/iPads Show Notes Learn more from Kate about the C++ language: bit.ly/kate_pluralsight C++…

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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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