May 2007 - Posts

Team Development with TFS Guide

If you are using or planning to use Team Foundation Server within your organisation, then I recommend you to go and read this guide (which really is a free e-book on TFS). Over the last few months, we have had a number of queries from our customers on best practices for deployment and adoption of TFS, which shows the high demand for such a guide.

The Patterns and Practices and VSTS/TFS teams have been working together with the industry experts, MVPs and customers to write this guide and they have covered various subjects like:

- Structuring projects and solutions in TFS
- Team build and Continuous Integration
- Considerations for large projects (source control setup, branching/merging guidelines, build process)
- Process templates (e.g. MSF Agile, MSF CMMI, etc)
- Reporting
- Setting up and maintaining TFS

This guide also includes general information about team development and subjects like solution structure, team builds and continuous integration, which are not exclusive to TFS. So you can get something out of this guide even if you are not using TFS.

What is Popfly?

Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts:

1. Popfly Creator, a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.
2. Popfly Space, an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

Popfly is now in the private alpha stage.

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aQuantive to be acquired by Microsoft for $6 billion

This acquisition will enable Microsoft to expand the existing advertising platform (Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live and MSN) into a world class and Internet-wide service. aQuantive will continue to operate from its HQ headquarters in Seattle and will become part of Microsoft's Online Services business.

Read more.

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