Obviously Douglass’s quote refers to a more sinister theme, but it does apply to what we experience on a day to day basis, indeed his quote holds true for us as individuals, as team members and furthermore as employees of organizations (and I could keep going). In order to advance, we have to force ourselves to change; in fact, we have to embrace change, as struggling to change will bring us progress. For an organization, progress can be measured in different ways: efficiency, effectivene... [More]

Want to better understand how to leverage Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server development, while complying to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) best practices? Follow this link (from the Enterprise Developer Conference last week in NYC): Link to the video or come see us at our next VSTS User Groupon May 26!

While setting up Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) virtual machines (VM) for our demos or customization projects one of our requirements is to be able to run the VM while not connected to a physical network. We therefore have a tendency to use the Microsoft Loopback Adapter as one of the network adapters and configure Internet Connection Sharing to provide Internet access when connected to a network. I personally use a third party firewall so I have a tendency to disable the built in Windows Fir... [More]

Frankly, I am not so sure that the world needs new blogs about software development! In any case, my InCycle colleagues and I pretty much decided together to try and share our ALM and VSTS hands-on experiences. As consultants, we collectively visit many development teams and see what types of solutions and approaches they put in place around managing a dev project with VSTS. Sometimes we help in putting these solutions in place, that’s how we earn a living after all, and sometimes we are just am... [More]