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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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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