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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:41 PM

Community Academic Program

October 2008 we are visiting Rhodes university ( www.rhodes.ac.za ) for another technology awareness program, as shown on the following flyer: For this battling with the image and information hidden within the flyer, here are a few extracts: ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM SERVICES Planning and Proposals for IT Environments Hardware Sponsorship Hardware installation Software installation. Evangelism and Mentorship for Software development concepts Software development technologies Application Life Cycle...
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Monday, September 15, 2008 8:04 AM

To Scrum or not to scrum ... some of "my" views

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/09/12/scrum-atc-has-its-very-own-certified-scrum-master.aspx . What makes scrum different from the classic waterfall model ... "my" views range from nothing to lots! Why nothing? From a specific altitude both have a beginning and an end for a project ... normally. Both can split work into junks of "stuff", resulting in a number of manageable waterfalls making up one huge waterfall. Both typically pass or fail with the team...
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Friday, September 12, 2008 12:50 PM

Benefits of Integrating Visual Studio Team Tester with Automated Builds in a Project

A colleague of mine has just completed a testimonial, covering the advantages of having and disadvantages of not having automated builds and testing in a project. The document is based on an experience with TSF/VSTS, but is actually technology agnostic and focuses on the concept of automated build & test. Find it here and give us your comments. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, September 12, 2008 7:40 AM

Scrum ... ATC has its very own certified scrum master

ASTRA Technology Core (ATC), the technology research and evangelism unit within BB&D, has its very own certified scrum master "Mr" Zayd Kara. Well done Zayd!   ... visit Zayd here . We had a feedback session with Zayd yesterday and he confirmed that our past exposures and use of Scrum was not 100% according to the Agile Manifesto, but that we are on a positive road. The terminology, the planning and the roles of a scrum master were interesting, especially as our dear Herman was...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:25 AM

Academia ... Phase 2 is commencing and the community leads and MVPs are invited to "rock" along.

We are planning to visit on of the major South-African universities for a 2-day event, which entails the following: Day 1 Install, configure and test a sponsored server, hosting a virtualised TFS ATDT server and a TFS Build server. Install, configure, test and demonstrate a virtualised VSTS development environment. Day 2 TFS/VSTS workshops, including planning. Interoperability workshops, introducing products such as TeamPrise for seamless integration of non-MS and MS TFS environments. These events...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:13 AM

TechED South-Africa 2008 - MVP CnT Winners announced!

We finally have all the MVP Chalk & Talk session winners ... drum roll ... Teamprise Client Suite 3.0 License Michael Grant XBox 360 Arcade Pack #1 Henry Fourie XBox 360 Arcade Pack #2 Marius Cronje We will be contacting the winners by email shortly. Thank you, for supporting the MVPs at TechED 2008 and we hope to see you again at the next event! Also a huge thanks to the sponsors of the above prizes: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:03 AM

TechED 2008 South-Africa - Q&A Part 2

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/05/teched-2008-south-africa-q-amp-a.aspx . When will Microsoft support integration with TFS/VSTS for the Expression Blend tools? The topic has been under discussion with the product team and MVPs, whereby it seems that integration is under serious consideration. We will update this blog post as soon as we notice movement on that frontline. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:30 PM

TechED 2008 South-Africa - Q&A

Here are some of the questions we received during TechED, which we promised to follow up. Thanks to the "rocking" MVP and product colleagues, we also have some answers q;-) What is the support of MSSCI with TFS 2008 … are there any known issues or is the product fully supported? Fully supported with the latest MSSCCI provider Power Tool Is there an add-in to integrate Delphi development IDEs and TFS, i.e. a Delphi(Team)prise type product? See the blog post "Connecting Team Foundation...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:26 PM

Branching Guidance II ... a question to the communities

We have been having a few discussions ... at times debates, whether a branch is a trunk, or both the same or them being different altogether. I have put it into the semantics category and have deprioritised it  for the time being ... but we can cat about it at TechED q;-) The other topic, which I would like to throw into the lions den today, is whether the approach of starting at the MAIN branch is the right and only way, or whether there are teams that start with the DEV branch as in the right...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:57 PM

Why is the interoperability drive so important to us?

This must be the gazillionth time I am writing this blog post, whereby I deleted the previous attempts as I wanted to avoid the possible whiplash I will receive from some of my colleagues and the more 'radical' technologists. Henk, who is one of my colleagues involved in our interoperability drive within our company, in our technology communities and more recently at universities, emailed me two links, which everyone must have a look at: Microsoft Becomes Official Apache Sponsor Sam Ramji...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:38 AM

TechED 2008 - It is time to 'trek' to Durban soon. What will we be up to?

It is T-2 days before we start the journey to Durban, where we will be meeting with colleagues from far, far away, where we will collaborate, share ideas and where we will try our utmost to have fun all the time, even while being grilled by the audience when delivering a session. From our (BB&D, Henk, Zayd and I) we will be delivering the following content at TechED: Introducing Windows, Linux, TFS, VSTS and Java working as one happy family, CNT309 TFS Build, a look at customization and extensibility...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:02 AM

TFS/VSTS ... Videos, Controls, my colleagues have been active again!

Richard has just released yet another great video " How Do I: Build and Deploy Database Projects Using Team Build? ", which you can find here . Paul has just released an exciting control , which allows users to connect to TFS. Find it on CodePlex here . Thanks guys! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM

TechED 2008 South-Africa: T-5 Days ... watch the MVPs!

If you are coming to TechED in South-Africa you must keep a lookout for the South-African MVP's and Community Leads who will be "rocking" the event. Events While many are involved in breakout sessions, ask the expert, Virtual TechED and the community lounge, we will be hosting the following sessions in the MVP Calk and Talk room: SCRUM, CNT238 Introducing Windows, Linux, TFS, VSTS and Java working as one happy family, CNT309 Game Development for Future Devices, CNT229 Practical Code...
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Monday, July 28, 2008 8:01 AM

Another great TFS video ... How to backup a TFS database

Richard Hundhausen has released yet another great TFS video, which looks at the steps required to backup both the Application Tier (AT) and Data Tier (DT) of Team Foundation Server 2008. Find the video here . Definitely worth a view by all TFS stakeholders and a must for the TFS administrators. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:32 AM

TFS Branching Guidance II - Revised Look & Feel

We have changed the look and feel of diagrams in the Guidance II document, making lines thinner, removing the start and end branch icon and reducing the font size.   What do you think of this revised look&feel? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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