News Azure Outage – I was a victim too, dear Reader This morning I went to check on my blog – the very blog you’re busy reading – and I was greeted with a dreaded YSOD (Yellow Screen of Death). What? That can’t be! I haven’t deployed anything since about 10 days ago, so
News Moving to Northwest Cadence That’s right – I’m moving from Imaginet to Northwest Cadence (NWC) at the end of this month. That’s the high-level version – read no further if you don’t need back-story! A huge thanks to all at Imaginet for an awesome 4 years.
News A Day of DevOps, Release Management, Software Quality and Agile Project Requirements Management Unfortunately there is no TechEd Africa this year – Microsoft have opted to go for smaller, more focused sessions in multiple cities (or at least that’s what I gather). I think it’s a shame, since the TechEd Africa event was always fantastic – and
News Imaginet Timesheet: Time Tracking for TFS and Visual Studio Online We’ve been working on a rewrite of our Timetracking tool (formerly Notion Timesheet) and it’s going live today – Imaginet Timesheet! Timesheet lets you log time against TFS work items using a web interface. The web site can be installed on any IIS
News Colin’s ALM Corner – New Theme and Live Tiles Last week I updated my blog engine from Blogger to MiniBlog. The last couple of days I’ve been updating the theme and style. Every good blog needs some good bling! Apart from the new look and feel, you can now also pin my
News Colin’s ALM Corner – Updated Blog Engine I have been using Blogger ever since I started my blog back in 2010. Once you get the template right (and set up a domain) it’s not a bad hosting platform. It works nicely with Windows Live Writer (as every self-respecting blog engine
News Contributions to TFS Build Extensions Some of the code I’ve written before has made it into the TFS Build Extensions latest release. They are my “Include Merges (and associated work items) in a build" and “Fail code based on Code Coverage” activities. If you use the activities, make
News Enable Custom IntelliTrace Web Events with a Right-Click Series Links: Part 1: The Basics (this post) – also guest posted on MSDevDiv SA BlogPart 2: IntelliTrace Everywhere – also guest posted on MSDevDiv SA BlogPart 3: Enable Custom IntelliTrace Events with a Right-ClickNote: This is an unsupported feature! Use at your own risk – though
News MVP Status Renewed I am pleased to announce that my MVP status was renewed! A large portion of that is due to this blog and all the hits I’ve gotten – so if you keep reading, I’ll keep posting! Thanks also to Microsoft – I have really
News TechDays and Jhb Training Class I will be co-presenting with Ahmed Salijee at TechDays in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town (12, 16 and 19 Oct respectively). Check out the website for details on exact dates and venues – there is tons of new stuff to show off, so this is
News Code Monkey? I’ve just spent 4 days in Seattle at my first Global MVP Summit – it’s been great meeting a lot of the other ALM MVPs and putting faces to email addresses! It’s also been great getting an “inside scope” on some of
News I’ve been made an MVP This week I got an email congratulating me on becoming an MVP for Application Lifecycle Management. This is a huge honour! Thanks to all involved in this – including the community! I thought the stats on where MVPs are globally was interesting – here’s an
News Presenting at TechEd Africa 2011 It’s a little over 3 weeks until Tech Ed Africa 2011 starts (it runs from 17 to 20 October). I’ll be presenting a two topics on the Development Track Demystifying Debugging with Visual Studio 2010 and IntelliTraceUnderstanding Your Systems with Architectural Discovery
News Imaginet (Notion Solutions) wins Microsoft Partner of the Year in the Application Lifecycle Management Category Notion Solutions is part of Imaginet, and last week Microsoft announced that Imaginet had won the Microsoft Partner of the Year in the inaugural Application Lifecycle Management category. We were selected from over 3000 other worldwide entrants in various categories. The award honours partners
News Presenting @ DevDays SA 2011: Cape Town and Johannesburg I am going to be co-presenting with Ahmed Salijee (a Development Solution Specialist) from Microsoft South Africa at DevDays later this month. We’re going to be showing off a ton of TFS and VS 2010 capabilities around testing applications. Here’s the official