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PDC early registration now open!
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Posted: May 28 2008, 03:40 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
Call me speechless. I finally got around to downloading this software. It is absolutely amazing . The images are stunning, and the UI is so intuitive. I could stay up all night, gazing into the heavens, er, my laptop screen. If you haven't seen it...
Posted: May 14 2008, 01:47 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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All these products. Which one is for me?
There are tons of options for Visual Studio 2008. How do you figure out what's what? Here are a few handy comparison links: Visual Studio 2008 product comparisons: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc149003.aspx   Team System 2008...
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snowstormlife
Posted: Apr 12 2008, 10:52 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Watch people get splashed (and learn a bit about Team System)
I've created a two-part recording of my Code Camp / SQL Saturday talk on database change management with Team System. In it we take a look at how Team System can help ease the pain of database development and change management. Why would you want...
Team System resources
Just posting some stuff for future reference. . . move along now. :) • “How Do I” videos for Team Suite • “How Do I” videos for TFS • Team Development with Team Foundation Server • Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance • Team System Performance Testing...
Posted: Mar 19 2008, 10:43 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch - March 11, 2008
I was in Orlando for a business meeting today. Tonight after dinner Scott, my roommate for the night, had the TV on a weather channel as we talked about stuff. The hours flew by and suddenly it was after 11 PM. We were about to turn off the TV when I...
Alabama Code Camp: Huntsville - Feb 23, 2008
Nothin' like southern hospitality. It was great to see everyone at the Alabama Code Camp in Huntsville today. I should have done a Part 1 and Part 2 for my talk, because 45 minutes was just too darn short. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my session. Here's...
Posted: Feb 23 2008, 05:17 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Power Tools for Team System DB Edition
Hurray! The Power Tools for Team System 2008 DB Edition is now available . You can find more information about it at Gert Draper's blog and Dave Scruggs' blog . A couple of the things I'm really interested in looking at are the "Dependency...
Posted: Feb 18 2008, 07:58 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Tampa SQLSaturday - Feb 16, 2008
That was a blast. Small room, filled to capacity. Engaging audience. Dancing bears. Jugglers. Nothing better than a Saturday afternoon talking about cool stuff. Thanks for coming to my session. I hope you enjoyed the format and found the information useful...
Posted: Feb 16 2008, 08:30 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Activate Windows Server 2008 RTM (MSDN Subscriber Downloads version)
This weekend I downloaded and installed Windows Server 2008 RTM from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I was building a VPC image with that + SQL Server 2005 + TFS 2008 + Team Suite 2008 + Office 2007. Everything installed smoothly, but when I tried to activate...
Posted: Feb 11 2008, 12:11 AM by jimblizzard | with 1 comment(s)
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Parallel? Nothin to it.
Back in the day, did you ever try to write a multi-threaded application? Simple ones aren't too difficult. But as the program has to do more things, the difficulty of keeping deadlocks away becomes almost impossible for mere mortals. Keep it simple...
Posted: Feb 08 2008, 10:40 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Why upgrade?
Well, for one thing, the Visual Studio .NET 2003 products and the .NET Framework 1.1 are about to reach their mainstream support end of life. . . See http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3040 and http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=1249 for...
South Florida Code Camp - Feb 2, 2008
Thanks to everyone who attended my Code Camp talk on Database Change Management with Team System 2008. Hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I did presenting it. Congrats to everyone who got some free stuff. (And my apologies to everyone who wasn't...
Speaking of . . .
I'm going to be talking at some community events in February on database change management using Team System. I gave the talk at the Orlando SQLSaturday! where it was well received. Hope to see you at one of the upcoming events. Saturday, February...
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